| 释义 |
`1`Cy Pres `2`
"Legal Lexicon":
CY PRES - These are old French words, which signify 'as near as.'
In cases where a perpetuity is attempted in a will, the courts do not, if they can avoid it, construe the devise to be utterly void, but expound the will in such a manner as to carry the testator's intentions into effect, as far as the rules respecting perpetuities will allow; this is called construction cy pres. When the perpetuity is attempted in a deed, all the limitations are totally void.
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