 | New Jersey. Court of Chancery - Law reports, digests, etc - 1842 - 598 pages
...and the objects of his bounty ? To sum up the •whole in the most simple and intelligible form, were his mind and memory sufficiently sound to enable him...understand the business in which he was engaged at the time when lie executed his will?" In the opinion of chief justice Ewing and justice Drake, on the will... | |
 | Jacob D. Wheeler - Common law - 1835 - 620 pages
...Hathorn v. King, of sound disposing mind and memory. The question, says Judge Washington, is this; were his mind and memory sufficiently sound to enable him to know and understand the business he was engaged in. If so, then he is competent to direct the distribution of... | |
 | New Jersey. Court of Chancery - Equity - 1842 - 598 pages
...it, and the objects of his bounty? To sum up the whole in the most simple and intelligible form, were his mind and memory sufficiently sound to enable him...understand the business in which he was engaged at the time when he executed his will?" In the opinion of chief justice Ewing and justice Drake, on the will... | |
 | New Jersey. Court of Chancery - Equity - 1846 - 688 pages
...at, and the objects of his bounty? To sum up the whole in the most simple and intelligible form, Were his mind and memory sufficiently sound to enable him to know and understand the business in which he was engaged, at the time when he executed his will '.'" In the... | |
 | James Kent - Law - 1848 - 798 pages
...mind and memory sufficiently sound to be of a disposing mind and memory, and competent to know and understand the business in which he was engaged at the time he executed the will. The interesting head of the disabilities of testators is well digested in Jar man on Wills, Boston edit.... | |
 | James Kent - Law - 1854 - 728 pages
...memory sufficiently sound to be of a disposing mind and memory, and competent to know and understand tbe business in which he was engaged at the time he executed the will. The interesting head of the (lisabiiiticn of testators is well digested in Jartnan on Wills, Boston edit.... | |
 | James Kent - Law - 1858 - 778 pages
...mind and memory sufficiently sound to he of a disposing mind and memory, and competent to know and understand the business in which he was engaged at the time he execnted the will. The interesting head of the disabilities of testators is well digested in Jarman... | |
 | Georgia. Supreme Court - Equity - 1859 - 788 pages
...consider was, were the mind and memory of the deceased sufficiently sound to enable him to know and understand the business in which he was engaged at the time he signed ; and if he had such a mind and memory, then he had testamentary capacity; that they would look... | |
 | Illinois. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1912 - 712 pages
...to comprehend the nature and character of his property and the objects of his bounty and understood the business in which he was engaged at the time he executed the will, he had sufficient mental capacity to make the will, and the fact that he was suffering from disease... | |
 | Illinois. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1919 - 716 pages
...of inability to transact ordinary business affairs with his ability to comprehend the transaction in which he was engaged at the time he executed the will, the instruction directed a verdict partly on a basis of elements which were improper, and also completely... | |
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To sum up the whole in the most simple and intelligent form — Were his mind and memory sufficiently sound to enable him to know, and to understand, the business in which he was engaged at the time when he executed the will? 
