Law of Succession Act CAP 160

Assent necessary to complete legatee’s title

(1) The assent of the executor shall be necessary to complete the title of the legatee to a specific legacy.
(2) Such assent may be verbal, and either express or implied from the conduct of the executor, and shall be sufficient to divest his interest as executor therein, and (subject to any registration required by any other written law) to transfer the subject of the bequest to the legatee.
(3) When the executor is a legatee, his assent to his own specific legacy shall be necessary to complete his title thereto as legatee.
(4) The assent of the executor to a specific legacy shall give effect thereto from the death of the testator.
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