Certainly, the
contemplation of death, as the wages of sin, and passage to another world, is holy and religious; but the fear of it, as a tribute due unto nature, is weak.
One step advanced beyond this, Jerry's uttermost, the folk of Somo, from the
contemplation of death, had achieved concepts of the spirits of the dead still living in immaterial and supersensuous realms.
A gift causa mortis is effective only if it is made in
contemplation of death due to a known condition and the donor actually dies as a result of that condition.
Chiltern Dog Rescue the donor's
contemplation of death was not based on anything she said or did other than the words "this will be yours when I go", whilst looking at the donee.
The New Jersey inheritance tax applies not only to testamentary dispositions but also transfers made in
contemplation of death. A transfer by deed, grant, bargain, sale, or gift made more than three years before the decedent's death is not considered to be in
contemplation of death; however, any such transfer made within three years of death is considered to be made in
contemplation of death and is taxed accordingly, unless the contrary can be proven (see NJSA sections 53:34-1 and 18:26-5.7; this issue will be discussed in greater detail in a later section).
"Doing this right makes the evidence 'in
contemplation of death' which is an exception to the hearsay rule ...
While not unaffected by international influences, such as that of the austere and metaphorically charged objects of Arte Povera, Castellano's work always bears the weight of his own ambivalent cultural heritage: a gloomy worldview, shaped by the oppressive fear and guilt woven into the dominant religious attitude, which is closer to the morbid
contemplation of death than to the joy of living.
From either perspective, it underlines the fact that
contemplation of death (or the dying man) is imperative and urgent.
The audience is taken from the
contemplation of death to its practicalities.
2035(b), which is to equalize the treatment of transfers at death and transfers in
contemplation of death (deathbed transfers), applies to QTIP just as it does to other property.
(1) When insured purchased a one year accidental death policy and arranged for the policy to be owned by his children from the beginning, the proceeds were includable in his estate as a transfer in
contemplation of death when he died within the policy term.
During this time, he reflects on his endangered marriage, interspersed with philosophizing and bits of poetry: "He finds it funny that in his brief
contemplation of death, it's not religion or philosophy or even photography, but poetry that consoles and prepares." The novel is thought-provoking, while at the same time the author deftly maintains and steadily builds suspense.