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Common terms and phrases
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Popular passages
Page 32 - That no will shall be valid unless it shall be in writing and executed in manner hereinafter 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...
Page 316 - Affidavits shall be confined to such facts as the witness is able of his own knowledge to prove, except on interlocutory motions, on which statements as to his belief, with the grounds thereof, may be admitted.
Page 418 - It shall be lawful for the court or a judge at any time during the pendency of any cause or matter, to order the production by any party thereto, upon oath, of such of the documents in his possession or power...
Page 112 - 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, Customary Heir, Executor, or Administrator, or the Person entitled as his or her next of Kin, under the Statute of Distributions) . XIX.
Page 422 - Court and the parties shall be at liberty to refer to the whole contents of such documents, and the Court shall be at liberty to draw from the facts and documents stated in any such special case any inference, whether of fact or law, which might have been drawn therefrom if proved at a trial.
Page 434 - Act it is enacted6 that if any person shall attest the execution of any will to whom, or to whose wife, or husband any beneficial devise, legacy, estate, interest, gift or appointment of, or affecting any real or personal estate (other than and except charges and directions for the payment of any debt or debts) shall be thereby given or made, such devise, legacy, estate, gift or appointment shall, so far only as concerns such person attesting the execution of such will, or the wife or husband of...
Page 397 - ... 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 564 - ... were respectively written, signed, or executed, as they purport respectively to have been ; that such as are specified as copies are". true copies ; and such documents as are stated to have been served, sent, or delivered, were so served, sent, or delivered respectively ; saving all just exceptions to the admissibility of all such documents as evidence in this cause.
Page 307 - Registrar, may transact all such business and exercise all such authority and jurisdiction in respect of the same, as under the Acts or these Rules may be AD 1883.
Page 114 - AND be it further enacted, that no will or codicil, or any part thereof, which shall be in any manner revoked, shall be revived otherwise than by the re-execution thereof, or by a codicil executed in manner herein-before required and showing an intention to revive the same ; and when any will or codicil which shall be partly revoked, and afterwards wholly revoked, shall be revived, such revival shall not extend to so much thereof as shall have been revoked before the revocation of the whole thereof,...
Bibliographic information
| Title | Probate and Administration, Law and Practice in Common Form and Contentious Business The making of modern law |
| Author | William John Dixon |
| Edition | 2 |
| Publisher | Reeves and Turner, 1885 |
| Original from | Oxford University |
| Digitized | 22 Sep 2006 |
| Length | 630 pages |
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