Legal Term: DESTINATION

Definition: The application which the testator directs shall be made of the legacy he gives, for example, when a testator gives to a hospital a sum of money, to be applied in erectiug buildings, he is said to give a destination to the legacy. Destination also signifies the intended application of a thing. Mill stones, for example, taken out of a mill to be picked, and to be returned, have a destination, and are considered as real estate, although detached from the freehold. Heir looms, (q. v.) although personal chattels, are, by their destination, considered real estate and money agreed or directed to be laid out in land, is treated as real property. Newl. on Contr. ch. 8, Fonbl. Eq. B. 1, c. 6, 9, 3 Wheat. R. 577, 2 Bells Com. 2, Ersk. Inst. 2 14. Vide Mill. 2. When the owner of two adjoining houses uses, during his life, the property in such a manner as to make one property subject to the other, and devises one property to one person, and the other to another, this is said not to be an easement or servitude, but a destination by the former owner. Lois des Bat. partie 1, c. 4, art. 3, 3, 5 Har. & John. 82. See Dedication.

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