Re Newton King (deceased) King v Allen - [1953] NZLR 244

Will — Devisees and Legatees — Rule as to Double Portions — Ademption — Will leaving Preference and Ordinary Shares in Company to Testator's Children — Gifts inter vivos of Preference and Ordinary Shares in Varying Numbers to Testator's Children after Execution of Will — Presumption that Legacies "Portions" — Presumption not displaced by Small Differences in Character of Subsequent Gifts, having Regard to Testator's Manifested Intention of all Children benefiting Equally — Subsequent Gifts of Shares to or for Benefit of any Child of Testator operating as Ademption pro tanto of Bequests for Benefit of Such Child.