I’m pretty sure there are scholarships dedicated to this or that minority or special class of student. Why should the judge over-rule this bequest?
And, if he does over-rule the bequest, is he ordering the bursar to apply the funds differently? If so, this is of a piece with the more general state interest in seizing my funds through taxes (both during and post-life) and distributing them to its favored classes of clients.
Oh, addendum—I see it’s Canada, but I could easily see the same result here.
there should be a clause in the will stating that if any bequest is found illegal, the funds should be applied to something else.
Say in other words, if the funds can’t be applied as directed, they can’t be applie by the judge to the same purpose but without the resrictions.
would that hold up, do you think?
You are right. When my eldest daughter was getting ready to go to college, I went to the local bookstore and looked at the books with scholarships/grants in them. Every "minority" had multiple scholarships in them. Not one for a non-minority. It was eye opening.
I remember my daughter's piano teacher telling me that there are lots of scholarships and grants that my daughter could get. I just stood there thinking that this woman has bought into the whole propaganda line and is probably thinking that they were now getting things that only white people used to get; instead of the reality that she and her daughter were eligible to get things that white people never got.