MR. JUSTICE WHITE delivered the opinion of the Court.
The Internal Revenue Code of 1939 imposes an estate tax "upon the transfer of the net estate of every decedent." § 810. The gross estate is to include not only all property "[t]o the extent of the interest therein of the decedent at the time of his death," § 811 (a), but also, under § 811 (c) (1), all property
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