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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... be surprised , no letters testamentary , or probate of any nuncupative will , shall pass the seal of any court till fourteen days after the death of the tes- tator , nor till process has first issued to call 18 LAW OF WILLS .
... be surprised , no letters testamentary , or probate of any nuncupative will , shall pass the seal of any court till fourteen days after the death of the tes- tator , nor till process has first issued to call 18 LAW OF WILLS .
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... seal to it , and though it is not attested by witnesses , provided it can be proved that the will has been written by the testator him- self , Godolph . Leg . p . 1 , c . 21. And even though it should have been written by another person ...
... seal to it , and though it is not attested by witnesses , provided it can be proved that the will has been written by the testator him- self , Godolph . Leg . p . 1 , c . 21. And even though it should have been written by another person ...
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... seal , as well as his name , to the last sheet ; which being done , the witnesses should write their names under the attestation clause which appears in the last sheet . But ... sealing is a signing , or signing a seal- 54 LAW OF WILLS .
... seal , as well as his name , to the last sheet ; which being done , the witnesses should write their names under the attestation clause which appears in the last sheet . But ... sealing is a signing , or signing a seal- 54 LAW OF WILLS .
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Esq. Richard Dickson. Whether sealing is a signing , or signing a seal- ing , within the statute , is not sufficiently clear . The opinions of the judges on this point are exceedingly contradictory , and the subject is one of the vexatæ ...
Esq. Richard Dickson. Whether sealing is a signing , or signing a seal- ing , within the statute , is not sufficiently clear . The opinions of the judges on this point are exceedingly contradictory , and the subject is one of the vexatæ ...
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... seal of the Prerogative Court of the Archbishop of Canterbury has the effect of ex- tending to the recovery of property wherever situ- ate in England , it is preferable to obtain it in that court probates granted in the other courts ...
... seal of the Prerogative Court of the Archbishop of Canterbury has the effect of ex- tending to the recovery of property wherever situ- ate in England , it is preferable to obtain it in that court probates granted in the other courts ...
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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...