{{ Cquote | It is extremely difficult to say what was the meaning and intention of this testatrix in framing this very singular will, and very difficult to determine whether she intended a single enjoyment, a collective enjoyment, or a successive enjoyment on the part of the persons who are to take under this disposition.
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See Raines v . Shipley, 197 Ga . 448, 458, 29 S . E . 2d 588 ( 1944 ) ( [ U ] nder the general law it was the duty of the executors to discharge this particular mortgage debt [ on devised real property ] from the personal property of the testatrix, if any she had . . . . ).
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But for the same reasons as I have sought to give in dealing with the word friends, in this particular case the option to the members of the family would not in any event fail for uncertainty even if it included all the testatrix's blood relations; anyone seeking to exercise the option would have to prove simply that he had a blood relationship.
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But the question is, whether, according to the ordinary sense, not the sense of the passages and authors alluded to, treating upon the great and extensive sense of the word charity, in the Christian religion, this testatrix meant by these words to confine the Defendant to such acts of charity or charitable purposes as this Court would have enforced by decree, and reference to a Master.
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Without seeking to lay down any exhaustive definition of such test, it may be helpful if I indicate certain minimum requirements : ( a ) the relationship must have been a long-standing one . ( b ) The relationship must have been a social relationship as opposed to a business or professional relationship . ( c ) Although there may have been long periods when circumstances prevented the testatrix and the applicant from meeting, when circumstances did permit they must have met frequently.
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Indeed, many people, if asked to draw up a complete list of their friends, would probably have some difficulty in deciding whether certain of the people they knew were really friends as opposed to acquaintances . Therefore, il the nature of the gift was such that it was legally necessary to draw up a complete list of friends of the testatrix, or to be able to say of any person that he is not a friend, the whole gift would probably fail even as to those who, by any conceivable test, were friends.
