Decedent Estate Law of the State of New York, Chapter Thirteen of the Consolidated Laws (became a Law February 17, 1909: Chapter 18, Laws of 1909) Together with All Amendments, the Notes of the Board of Statutory Consolidation, Notes of the Original Revisers of the Revised Statutes, the Report of the Commissioners of Statutory Revision on the Originals, and the Full Text of All the Statutes Codified in the Decedent Estate Law, Also, an Introduction, Notes of Judicial Decisions and a Commentary, Historical and Expository, on the Text of the Statutes

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Baker, Voorhis & Company, 1911 - Executors and administrators - 592 pages

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Contents

126
101
Devise or bequest to certain bar associations and fire
103
339
110
Home for Friend
128
406
130
Remsen 5 53
132
City of Brooklyn v Seaman
139
Cushman 146 189
146
Clark Matter
147
148
152
Clark
153
86
193
Vander Henden 413
195
Smith
206
Effect of change of residence since execution of will
209
Osborn 100 116
212
Application of certain provisions to wills previously made
213
Child born after making of will
215
Devise or bequest to subscribing witness
225
Action by child born after making of will or by sub scribing witness
229
Devise or bequest to child or descendant not to lapse
232
Gourlay
239
Reception of wills for safe keeping
242
Sealing and indorsing wills received for safe keeping
243
Delivery of wills received for safe keeping
244
Opening wills received by surrogate for safe keeping
245
Revocation and cancellation of written wills
246
Brookman Matter of 251
251
Revocation by marriage and birth of issue
261
Will of unmarried woman
265
Bond or agreement to convey property devised or be queathed not a revocation
271
Brown 273 276 280
273
Charge or incumbrance not a revocation
275
Conveyance when not to be deemed a revocation
277
Conveyance when to be deemed a revocation
282
Canceling or revocation of second will not to revive first
285
Record of wills in county clerks office
289
County clerks index of recorded wills
294
Recording will found in another State or foreign county
296
Irvine
305
Authentication of papers from another State or foreign country for use in this State
310
Validity of purchase notwithstanding devise
316
Validity and effect of testamentary dispositions
320
Application of certain sections in this article
327
ARTICLE 3
328
DESCENT AND DISTRIBUTION With notes and commentary on the text 329489
329
Duryea
340
General rule of descent
349
Burlingham 352 388 393
352
Brothers and sisters of father and mother and their descendants and grandparents
389
Illegitimate children
399
233
400
Relatives of the halfblood
404
Relatives of husband or wife
408
Cases not hereinbefore provided for
410
Posthumous children and relatives
412
Sewell
413
Inheritance sole or in common
414
Alienism of ancestor
416
Advancements of real and personal estates
419
Kent 422 423 425
422
Dyer
424
How advancement adjusted
427
Distribution of personal property of decedent
429
Lyon
449
Welde
462
Advancements of personal estates
464
Estates of married women
472
Liability of heirs and devises for debt of decedent
478
124
479
Dunne
482
Liability of heir or devisee not affected where will makes specific provision for payment of debt
483
Action against husband for debts of deceased wife
486
Application of certain sections in this article
488
ARTICLE 4
490
200
491
259
496
255
497
Executors de son tort abolished
499
200
502
Special promise to answer for debt of testator or intestate
505
Liability of executors and administrators of executors and administrators
508
70 94
509
Rights of administrators de bonis non
510
Actions upon contract by and against executors
513
Administrators to have same rights and liabilities as executors
516
Actions of trespass by executors and administrators
518
Actions of trespass against executors and adminis trators
521
Actions for wrongs by or against executors or ad ministrators
524
Luce
527
Action or proceeding by executor of executor
528
Appraisal of estate of deceased person
529
Laws repealed
531
Notes of the original revisers of the Revised Statutes on
541
Report of Commissioners of Statutory Revision on the original
559
General index
567
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Page 242 - No will in writing, except in the cases hereinafter mentioned, nor any part thereof, shall be revoked, or altered, otherwise than by some other will in writing, or some other writing of the testator, declaring such revocation or alteration, and executed with the same formalities with which the will itself was required by law to be executed...
Page 520 - For wrongs done to the property, rights or interests of another, for which an action might be maintained against the wrong-doer, such action may be brought by the person injured, or after his death, by his executors or administrators...
Page 323 - debts " includes every claim and demand, upon which a judgment for a sum of money, or directing the payment of money, could be recovered in an action; and the word
Page 102 - There shall be at least two attesting witnesses, each of whom shall sign his name as a witness, at the end of the will, at the request of the testator.
Page 212 - ... be entitled to recover the same portion from the devisees and legatees, in proportion to and out of the parts devised and bequeathed to them by such will.
Page 199 - The witnesses to any will, shall write opposite to their names their respective places of residence; and every person who shall sign the testator's name to any will by his direction, shall write his own name as a witness to the will.
Page 195 - Where there is nothing in the context of a will from which it is apparent that a testator has used the words in which he has expressed himself in any other than their strict and primary sense, and where his words so interpreted are sensible with reference to extrinsic circumstances, it is an inflexible rule of construction that the words of the will shall be interpreted in their strict and primary sense, and in no other, although they may be capable of some popular or secondary interpretation...
Page 211 - Whenever a testator shall have a child born after the making of a last will, either in the lifetime or after the death of such testator...
Page 148 - A contingent remainder in fee, may be created on a prior remainder in fee, to take effect in the event that the persons to whom the first remainder is limited, shall die under the age of twenty-one years, or upon any other contingency, by which the estate of such persons may be determined before they attain their full age.
Page 91 - ... part of his or her estate, after the payment of his or her debts, and such devise or bequest shall be valid to the extent of one-half, and no more.

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