A retirement village unit occupied under a sub-lease with extensive restrictions and automatic termination on death is not a property 'owned' by the resident within the meaning of a will that bequeaths 'house property' or 'substitute house property' that the testator shall 'own' at the date of death. The use of the possessive pronoun 'my' in relation to 'my house property' connotes ownership in the sense of full control, and a reference to 'substitute house property which I shall own' requires similar proprietary rights to those held in the original property. Section 33I of the Succession Act 1981 (Qld), which provides that a general disposition of land includes leasehold land, does not apply to a specific disposition.
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