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With notes and commentary on the text.....
SECTION 10. Who may devise....
II. What real property may be devised....
12. Who may take real property by devise..
13. Devises of real property to aliens..
14. Wills of real estate, how construed...
15. Who may make wills of personal estate...
.....
16. Unwritten wills of personal property, when allowed....
17. Devise or bequest to certain societies, associations and
corporations .
18. Devise or bequest to certain corporations...
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50
61
67
71
76
78
84
88
95
19. Devise or bequest to certain benevolent, charitable and
scientific corporations ...
97
20. Devise or bequest to certain bar associations and fire
corporations...
103
21. Manner of execution of will..
106
22. Witnesses to will to write names and places of resi-
dence....
203
23. What wills may be proved..
205
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SECTION 24. Effect of change of residence since execution of will.... 209
25. Application of certain provisions to wills previously
26. Child born after making of will..
27. Devise or bequest to subscribing witness.
28. Action by child born after making of will, or by sub-
scribing witness
213
215
222
229
29. Devise or bequest to child or descendant not to lapse. 232
30. Reception of wills for safe keeping.... . . 242
31. Sealing and indorsing wills received for safe keeping.. 243
32. Delivery of wills received for safe keeping
244
33. Opening wills received by surrogate for safe keeping. 245
34. Revocation and cancellation of written wills...
35. Revocation by marriage and birth of issue..
246
261
36. Will of unmarried woman......
265
37. Bond or agreement to convey property devised or be-
queathed not a revocation
271
40. Conveyance, when to be deemed a revocation........
38. Charge or incumbrance not a revocation.....
39. Conveyance, when not to be deemed a revocation..
41. Canceling or revocation of second will not to revive
first....
42. Record of wills in county clerk's office..
43. County clerk's index of recorded wills....
44. Recording will found in another State or foreign county. 296
45. Authentication of papers from another State or foreign
country for use in this State....
46. Validity of purchase notwithstanding devise.
47. Validity and effect of testamentary dispositions.....
48. Application of certain sections in this article..
310
316
320
327.
275
277
282
285
289
294
ARTICLE 3.
DESCENT AND DISTRIBUTION.
SECTION 80. Definitions and use of terms; effect of article.
81. General rule of descent.....
82. Lineal descendants of equal degree.
83. Lineal descendants of unequal degree..
84. When father inherits
85. When mother inherits....
SECTION 87. Brothers and sisters and their descendants.....
88. Brothers and sisters of father and mother and their
descendants and grandparents
386
389
98. Distribution of personal property of decedent..
99. Advancements of personal estates...
429
464
.
472
100. Estates of married women.....
101. Liability of heirs and devises for debt of decedent.... 478
102. Liability of heir or devisee not affected where will
makes specific provision for payment of debt........ 483
103. Action against husband for debts of deceased wife.... 486
104. Application of certain sections in this article......
488
ARTICLE 4.
Executors, Administrators and Testamentary Trustees
With notes and commentary on the text......
..490-530
SECTION 110. Sales of real estate by executors under authority of
will . . .
....
490
499
III. Investment of trust funds by executor or administrator. 493
112. Executors de son tort abolished......
113. Special promise to answer for debt of testator or
intestate ..
114. Liability of executors and administrators of executors
115. Rights of administrators de bonis non.......
116. Actions upon contract by and against executors...... 513
117. Administrators to have same rights and liabilities as
executors..
516
118. Actions of trespass by executors and administrators.. 518
119. Actions of trespass against executors and adminis-
trators...
120. Actions for wrongs, by or against executors or ad-
ministrators..
:
121. Action or proceeding by executor of executor..
122. Appraisal of estate of deceased person....
524
528
529
ARTICLE 5.
Laws Repealed; When to Take Effect.
SECTION 130. Laws repealed
131. When to take effect.
Schedule of laws repealed....
APPENDIX No. I.
Notes of the Board of Statutory Consolidation on the consoli-
dated Decedent Estate Law".
66
APPENDIX No. II.
531
.531-532
534-539
Notes of the original revisers of the Revised Statutes, on the
original text, now embodied in the
Decedent Estate Law".. 541-557
APPENDIX No. III.
Report of Commissioners of Statutory Revision on the original
act now embodied in article 3 of the "Decedent Estate Law". 559-565
General index ....
567