A Practical Exposition of the Law of Wills, with plain instructions and advice to testators, executors, administrators and legatees, and observations on the consequences of intestacy, etc |
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... proved , or for which letters of administration are granted ; it is but a prudent measure for every person to leave as few debts as possible for his executors to pay . For though a return of the probate - duty paid on such debts is ...
... proved , or for which letters of administration are granted ; it is but a prudent measure for every person to leave as few debts as possible for his executors to pay . For though a return of the probate - duty paid on such debts is ...
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... one , except the same be , in the lifetime of the testator , reduced to writing , and read over to him , and approved ; and unless the same be proved to have been so done by the oaths of three witnesses LAW OF WILLS . 17.
... one , except the same be , in the lifetime of the testator , reduced to writing , and read over to him , and approved ; and unless the same be proved to have been so done by the oaths of three witnesses LAW OF WILLS . 17.
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... proved by three such witnesses present at the making thereof , and unless they or some of them were specially required to bear witness thereto by the testator himself ; and unless it was made in his last sickness , in his own habitation ...
... proved by three such witnesses present at the making thereof , and unless they or some of them were specially required to bear witness thereto by the testator himself ; and unless it was made in his last sickness , in his own habitation ...
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... proved that the dispo- sition was made during a lucid interval , but they must be calm and clear intermissions to qualify him with a testamentary capacity . Ibid . Persons deprived of their liberty , or free will , are intestable . For ...
... proved that the dispo- sition was made during a lucid interval , but they must be calm and clear intermissions to qualify him with a testamentary capacity . Ibid . Persons deprived of their liberty , or free will , are intestable . For ...
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... proved . So , if a married woman has any pin - money or separate maintenance , she may , by will , dispose of any savings made thereout without the license and consent of her husband . Ibid . 85 . And , if a feme covert is executrix or ...
... proved . So , if a married woman has any pin - money or separate maintenance , she may , by will , dispose of any savings made thereout without the license and consent of her husband . Ibid . 85 . And , if a feme covert is executrix or ...
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Page 69 - ... shall remain and continue in force until the same be burnt, cancelled, torn or obliterated by the testator or his directions, in manner aforesaid, or unless the same be altered by some other will or codicil in writing, or other writing of the devisor, signed in the presence of three or four witnesses declaring the same; any former law or usage to the contrary notwithstanding.
Page 201 - GF and the survivor of them, and the executors, administrators, and assigns of such survivor...
Page 169 - ... on lives, if any, and without deducting any thing on account of the debts due and owing from the deceased, are under the value of a certain sum to be therein...
Page 206 - ... my last will and testament. As witness my hand and seal this twenty first day of April one thousand seven hundred and eighty five (1785).
Page 200 - ... hereinafter expressed and declared of and concerning the same (that is to say...
Page 202 - ... being a son or sons, shall attain the age of twenty-one years, or being a daughter or daughters, shall attain that age or marry...
Page 200 - I do revoke all former wills by me at any time heretofore made, and do declare this only to be my last will and testament.
Page 168 - Act," and that the Personal Estate in respect of which such Probate or Letters of Administration are to be or have been granted, exclusive of what the Deceased may have been possessed of or entitled to as a Trustee, and not beneficially, but...
Page 171 - ... to be granted, exclusive of what the deceased shall have been possessed of or entitled to as a trustee for any other person or persons, and not beneficially, but...
Page 7 - To this he never yielded for an instant. Alas, in this age numbers of men are setting up to be their own inspired writers. I have been told that every man who is his own lawyer has a fool for his client...