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What people are saying - Write a reviewWe haven't found any reviews in the usual places. Common terms and phrasesact passed admitted a witness alteration amend attest the execution attesting witness bequest chattel interest codicil comprised in lapsed construed to pass contrary intention court rolls customary freehold customary heir customary or copyhold death estate tail estates pur autre executed in manner executor or administrator failure of issue fee simple FEME COVERT freehold estates freeholds and copyholds further enacted hereditaments hereinbefore required include estates comprised indefinite failure intention shall appear intituled An Act Jarm King Charles lands shall include lapsed and void leasehold estates leaving issue manor mariners notwithstanding nuncupative parliament of Ireland pass the fee personal estate power of appointment present law pur autre vie re-executed real estate real or personal reign of King repealed revocation revoked by marriage rights of entry Royal Navy Seisins stamp duties Statute of Frauds tenant right tion unless a contrary void devises witness to prove words of limitation Popular passagesPage 24 - ... a bequest of the personal estate of the testator, or any bequest of personal property described in a general manner, shall be construed to include any personal estate, or any personal estate to which such description shall extend (as the case may be), which he may have power to appoint in any manner he may think proper, and shall operate as an execution of such power, unless a contrary intention shall appear by the will. Page 21 - That no will or codicil, or any part thereof, shall be revoked otherwise than as aforesaid, or by another will or codicil executed in manner hereinbefore required, or by some writing declaring an intention to revoke the same, and executed in the manner in which a will is hereinbefore required to be executed, or by the burning, tearing, or otherwise destroying the same by the testator, or by some person in his presence and by his direction, with the intention of revoking the same. Page 17 - That no will shall be valid unless it shall be in writing and executed in manner herein-after mentioned ; (that is to say,) it shall be signed at the foot or end thereof by the testator, or by some other person in his presence and by his direction; and such signature shall be made or acknowledged by the testator in the presence of two or more witnesses present at the same time, and such witnesses shall attest and shall subscribe the will in the presence of the testator, but no form of attestation... Page 26 - Bequest shall not lapse, but shall take effect as if the Death of such Person had happened immediately after the Death of the Testator, unless a contrary Intention shall appear by the Will. Page 20 - And be it further enacted, that every will made by a man or woman shall be revoked by his or her marriage (except a will made in exercise of a power of appointment, when the real or personal estate thereby appointed would not in default of such appointment pass to his or her heir... Page 24 - ... or any other words which may import either a want or failure of issue of any person in his lifetime or at the time of his death, or an indefinite failure of his issue shall be construed to mean a want or failure of issue in the lifetime or at the... Page 21 - Will after the Execution thereof shall be valid or have any Effect, except so far as the Words or Effect of the Will before such Alteration shall not be apparent... Page 9 - will" shall extend to a testament, and to a codicil, and to an appointment by will or by writing in the nature of a will in exercise of a power... Page 10 - person" shall extend to a partnership, or body politic, corporate, or collegiate, as well as to an individual ; and every word importing the singular number only shall extend and be applied to several persons or things... Page 22 - And be it further enacted, that every will shall be construed, with reference to the real estate and personal estate comprised in it, to speak and take effect as if it had been executed immediately before the death of the testator, unless a contrary intention shall appear by the will. Bibliographic information
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