Section 17 of the Decedent Estate Law, by its terms, relates only to the validity of a "last will and testament" and provides that, in specified circumstances, a "devise or bequest" shall be valid only to the extent of half of the estate purported to be devised and bequeathed. (Italics supplied.) Even if it be assumed that the trust indenture here involved was illusory, as claimed by the guardian, it was a valid trust...
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