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... Probate Jurisdiction . Nature of Probate Proceedings ... What Instruments should be Probated , and When . Who May Offer a Will for Probate . The Formalities Necessary in Probating a Will .... .130 .131 .132 .183 ... ..134 .134 The ...
... Probate Jurisdiction . Nature of Probate Proceedings ... What Instruments should be Probated , and When . Who May Offer a Will for Probate . The Formalities Necessary in Probating a Will .... .130 .131 .132 .183 ... ..134 .134 The ...
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... probated . The consent of the husband might be by parol before or after the wife's death , and might be express or implied ... probate , but not afterwards.§ * Rich v . Cockell , 9 Ves . Jr. 369 ; Peacock v . Monk , 2 Ves . 190. Where by ...
... probated . The consent of the husband might be by parol before or after the wife's death , and might be express or implied ... probate , but not afterwards.§ * Rich v . Cockell , 9 Ves . Jr. 369 ; Peacock v . Monk , 2 Ves . 190. Where by ...
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... probate when it appears that the testator did not intend it as such , or understand that it was a will . But his mistake as to its legal effect can not be shown to defeat it . ( 27 W. Va . 796 ; s . c . 55 Am . Rep . 346. ) Page on ...
... probate when it appears that the testator did not intend it as such , or understand that it was a will . But his mistake as to its legal effect can not be shown to defeat it . ( 27 W. Va . 796 ; s . c . 55 Am . Rep . 346. ) Page on ...
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... probate during the life of either . ” * Two persons may join in a will , by which the sur- vivor shall take the ... probated as his will , and his money was turned over to Mary Cawley . In 1888 Mary Cawley died , and the will was again ...
... probate during the life of either . ” * Two persons may join in a will , by which the sur- vivor shall take the ... probated as his will , and his money was turned over to Mary Cawley . In 1888 Mary Cawley died , and the will was again ...
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... probate and the revocation of one part with the inten- tion of revoking the will , revokes both parts . Sec . 999. CONTRACTS TO LEAVE PROP- ERTY BY WILL CONSIDERED . - Where a tes- tator has made a contract in his life time , upon a ...
... probate and the revocation of one part with the inten- tion of revoking the will , revokes both parts . Sec . 999. CONTRACTS TO LEAVE PROP- ERTY BY WILL CONSIDERED . - Where a tes- tator has made a contract in his life time , upon a ...
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Page 248 - Future estates are either vested or contingent. They are vested when there is a person in being who would have an immediate right to the possession of the lands upon the ceasing of the intermediate or precedent estate. They are contingent while the person to whom, or the event upon which, they are limited to take effect, remains uncertain.
Page 25 - ... to establish a defence on the ground of insanity, it must be clearly proved that, at the time of the committing of the act, the party accused was labouring under such a defect of reason, from disease of the mind, as not to know the nature and quality of the act he was doing, or, if he did know it, that he did not know he was doing what was wrong.
Page 11 - Word importing the Singular Number only shall extend and be applied to several Persons or Things as well as One Person or Thing ; and every Word importing the Masculine Gender only shall extend Gender, and be applied to a Female as well as a Male.
Page 15 - ... or administrator of the party that had the estate thereof by virtue of the grant...
Page 158 - Verily, verily, I say unto thee, when thou wast young, thou girdest thyself, and walkedst whither thou wouldest: but when thou shalt be old, thou shalt stretch forth thy hands, and another shall gird thee, and carry thee whither thou wouldest not.
Page 88 - Signed, sealed, published and declared by the said John Alden, 2nd, as and for his last will and testament, in the presence of us, who, at his request, and in his presence, and in the presence of each other have subscribed our names as witnesses the day and year above written.
Page 298 - First — After all my lawful debts are paid and discharged, I give and bequeath to my two daughters, Mary L.
Page 121 - ... be in writing and signed by the testator or by some person in his presence, and by his express direction, and attested and subscribed in the presence of the testator by two or more competent witnesses...
Page 15 - That no will shall be valid unless it shall be in writing and executed in manner hereinafter mentioned; (that is to say), 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 the presence of the testator, but no form of attestation...
Page 11 - Bequest therein ; and also so much of an Act passed in the Fourth and Fifth Years of the Reign of Queen Annf, intituled A n Act fur the Amendment of the Late and the better Advancement of Justice...