LEMMON, Circuit Judge.
The petitioner complains that the testator's "verbal error" in using a "term of art — power of appointment" — is sought to be employed as a means of costing the estate $71,000, plus interest, in Federal Estate Tax liability.
"This controversy," the criticism continues, "is little more than an exercise in semantics."
It might be answered that all legal disputation is, in the final analysis, "an exercise in semantics...
Let's get started
Welcome to the leading source of independent legal reporting
Sign on now to see your case.
Or view more than 10 million decisions and orders.
- Updated daily.
- Uncompromising quality.
- Complete, Accurate, Current.
