 ... and shall be attested and subscribed in the presence of the said devisor by three or four credible witnesses, or else they shall be utterly void and of none effect.  A Practical Treatise of Powers - Page 197by Edward Burtenshaw Sugden - 1808 - 604 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Thomas Jarman - Wills - 1844 - 936 pages
...devising the same, or by some other person in his presence and by his express direction, and should be attested and subscribed in the presence of the said devisor, by three or four witnesses. The first inquiry suggested by this enactment is, what M»rk,a»uffiamounts to a " signing"... | |
 | Joshua Williams - Real property - 1845 - 458 pages
...devising the same, or by some other person in his presence and by his express directions, and should be attested and subscribed in the presence of the said devisor, by three or four credible witnesses, or else they should be utterly void and of none effect. And thus the law continued till the year 1837,... | |
 | Matthew Bacon, Sir Henry Gwilliam, Charles Edward Dodd - Law - 1846 - 748 pages
...by the party devising the same, or some other person in his presence, and by his express directions, and shall be attested and subscribed in the presence...said devisor by three or four credible witnesses, or else they shall be utterly void and of none effect. (D) Of Wills in Writing. (Of Lands.) or any... | |
 | Charles Sandys - England Land - 1851 - 408 pages
...party so devising the same, or by some other person in his presence, and by his express directions, and shall be attested and subscribed in the presence...said devisor by three or four credible witnesses, or else they shall be utterly void and of none effect.' " 19S And now, by Stat. 1 Viet. cap. 26, "... | |
 | Sir James Wigram, William Knox Wigram - Evidence - 1858 - 246 pages
...party so " devising the same, or by some other person in his presence and " by his express directions, and shall be attested and subscribed in " the presence of the said devisor by three or four credible wit" nesses, or else they shall be utterly void and of none effect." Sect. 19. "And for the prevention... | |
 | Georgia. Supreme Court - Equity - 1859 - 740 pages
...merely abstract. His third request is in direct opposition to the statute, which says, that all wills " shall be attested and subscribed in the presence of...said devisor, by three or four credible witnesses, or else they shall be utterly void and of no effect." Pr. Dig. 915. This provision is now extended... | |
 | Florida. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1861 - 596 pages
...the testator, or by some other person in his or her presence, and by his or her express direction, and shall be attested and subscribed in the presence of the said testator or testatrix, by three or more witnesses, or else it shall be utterly void and of non-effect."... | |
 | Great Britain. Courts - Law reports, digests, etc - 1864 - 584 pages
...and the more so, as under the statue of frauds, which requires that all devises shall *4f ••'I *be in writing and signed by the testator, and shall...attested and •* subscribed in the presence of the devisor by three or more credible witnesses,—it has been held that an attestation containing only... | |
 | Thomas Spence - Admission to the bar - 1864 - 456 pages
...so devising the same, or by some other person in his presence, and by his express directions, and to be attested and subscribed in the presence of the said devisor by three or four credible witnesses, or else it was utterly void and of none effect. For a will of personalty, however, no writing was in... | |
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