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... operates with the judge and works out the conclusion however complicated the facts or the principles involved . A study of cases arranged his- torically develops the knowledge of the law , and each case is seen to be not an isolated ...
... operates with the judge and works out the conclusion however complicated the facts or the principles involved . A study of cases arranged his- torically develops the knowledge of the law , and each case is seen to be not an isolated ...
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... operate as such . Swett v . Boardman , 1 Mass . 258 [ 2 Am . Dec. 16 ( 1804 ) ] ; Osborn v . Cook , 11 Cush . 532 , 535 [ 59 Am . Dec. 155 ( 1853 ) ] . But if , being of sufficient mental capacity , and free from in- sane delusion or ...
... operate as such . Swett v . Boardman , 1 Mass . 258 [ 2 Am . Dec. 16 ( 1804 ) ] ; Osborn v . Cook , 11 Cush . 532 , 535 [ 59 Am . Dec. 155 ( 1853 ) ] . But if , being of sufficient mental capacity , and free from in- sane delusion or ...
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... operate as a will . Fourthly , that al- though the testator did know and approve the contents , the paper may be re- fused probate , if it he proved that any fraud has been purposely practiced on the testator in obtaining his execution ...
... operate as a will . Fourthly , that al- though the testator did know and approve the contents , the paper may be re- fused probate , if it he proved that any fraud has been purposely practiced on the testator in obtaining his execution ...
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... operate upon any bank stock possessed by her , and so to pass the City Bank shares . See , also , a learned note of Chief Justice Redfield , 10 Am . Law Reg . ( N. S. ) 93 , to the case of Kurtz v . Hibner , 55 Ill . 514 , 8 Am . Rep ...
... operate upon any bank stock possessed by her , and so to pass the City Bank shares . See , also , a learned note of Chief Justice Redfield , 10 Am . Law Reg . ( N. S. ) 93 , to the case of Kurtz v . Hibner , 55 Ill . 514 , 8 Am . Rep ...
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... operate as a deed or a will , whenever it is so framed as to postpone actual enjoy- ment under it until the death of the maker . Gillham v . Mustin , 42 Ala . 365 ; Daniel v . Hill , 52 Ala . 430 ; Campbell v . Gilbert , 57 Ala . 569 ...
... operate as a deed or a will , whenever it is so framed as to postpone actual enjoy- ment under it until the death of the maker . Gillham v . Mustin , 42 Ala . 365 ; Daniel v . Hill , 52 Ala . 430 ; Campbell v . Gilbert , 57 Ala . 569 ...
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admitted to probate alteration appears attesting witnesses bequeath bequest cancellation child circumstances civil death codicil common law court of equity death deceased decision declared decree deed destroyed devise died dispose disposition doctrine document duly executed effect erasures executor express gift gift causa mortis give heir at law held husband inherit instrument intention to revoke intestacy intestate judgment jury lands legacy legatee Lord Lord Penzance marriage ment N. J. Eq N. Y. Supp obliteration operate opinion is given paper personal estate plaintiff presence Prob probate court proof provisions question real estate reason reference revocation rule signature signed statement of facts Statute of Frauds subscribing witnesses subsequent sufficient supra Supreme Court testament testamentary capacity testamentary disposition testator testator's testatrix thereof tion trust undue influence valid Vict wife words writing written
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Page 167 - 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, and such signature shall be made or acknowledged by the testator in the presence of two or more witnesses present at the same time, and such witnesses shall attest and shall subscribe the will in presence of the testator, but no form of attestation shall be necessary.
Page 767 - ... shall not lapse, but shall take effect as if the death of such person had happened immediately after the death of the testator, unless a contrary intention shall appear by the will.
Page 503 - ... death had not ensued) have entitled the party injured to maintain an action and recover damages in respect thereof, then and in every such case the person who would have been liable if death had not ensued shall be liable to an action for damages, notwithstanding the death of the person injured, and although the death shall have been caused under such circumstances as amount in law to felony.
Page 756 - ... accordingly, if the said being thereunto required, do render and deliver the said letters of administration (approbation of such testament being first had and made) in the said court, then this obligation to be void and of none effect, or else to remain in full force and virtue.
Page 113 - Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, that the words and expressions hereinafter mentioned, which in their ordinary signification have a more confined or a different meaning, shall in this Act, except where the nature of the provision or the context of the Act shall exclude such construction, be interpreted as follows (that is to say) : the word " will " shall extend to a testament, and to a
Page 373 - 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...
Page 483 - Be it ordained by the authority aforesaid that the estates both of resident and nonresident proprietors in the said territory, dying intestate, shall descend to and be distributed among their children and the descendants of a deceased child in equal parts, the descendants of a deceased child or grandchild to take the share of their deceased parent in equal parts among them; and where there shall be no children or descendants, then in equal parts to the...
Page 251 - Frauds it is enacted, that no devise in writing of lands, tenements, or hereditaments, or any clause thereof, shall be revocable otherwise than by some other will or codicil in writing, or other writing declaring the same, or by burning, cancelling, tearing, or obliterating the same, by the testator himself, or in his presence, and by his directions and consent...
Page 512 - The clause of the federal constitution •which requires full faith and credit to be given in each state to the records and judicial proceedings of every other state applies to the records and proceedings of courts only so far as they have jurisdiction.
Page 21 - These rules are two; the first, that the onus probandi lies in every case upon the party propounding a Will; and he must satisfy the conscience of the Court that the instrument so propounded is the last Will of a free and capable Testator.