Appellant concedes that the Masonic Brotherhood Fund is a committee and not a legal entity, and it is well settled that an unincorporated association or group is incompetent to take and hold property by devise and bequest (Matter of Merritt, 280 N.Y. 391, 399; but cf. EPTL 3-1.3, subd. [b]). The prime consideration of all construction proceedings is the intention of the testator as expressed in the will, all canons of interpretation being...
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