 | New Jersey. Court of Chancery - Law reports, digests, etc - 1842 - 598 pages
...probably no person who has not arranged such a disposition in his mind, before he committed it to writing. The question is not so much what was the degree of...the testator, as this — Had he a disposing memory ? Was he capable of recollecting the property he was about to bequeath, the manner of distributing... | |
 | New Jersey. Court of Chancery - Equity - 1842 - 598 pages
...probably no person who has not arranged such a disposition in his mind, before he committed it to writing. The question is not so much what was the degree of...the testator, as this — Had he a disposing memory ? Was he capable of recollecting the property he was about to bequeath, the manner of distributing... | |
 | Thomas Nesbitt McCarter - Equity - 1867 - 612 pages
...probably no person who has not arranged such a disposition in his mind before he committed it to writing. The question is not so much what was the degree of...by the testator as this, had he a disposing memory ? Was he capable of recollecting the property he was about to bequeath, the manner of distributing... | |
 | Franklin Chamberlin - Commercial law - 1869 - 1004 pages
...proper expression in the form of a will. Upon a discussion of the requisite capacity to make a will, " the question is not so much, what was the degree of...the testator, as this : had he a disposing memory ? Was he capable of recollecting the property he was about to bequeath, the manner of distribnting... | |
 | Georgia. Supreme Court - Equity - 1870 - 708 pages
...probably no per-on who has not arranged such a disposition in his mind before he committed it to writing. The question is not so much what was the degree of...possessed by the testator as this; had he a disposing mind and memory? Was he capable of recollecting the property he was about to bequeath, the manner of... | |
 | Richard Thomas Walkem - Executors and examinators - 1873 - 580 pages
...not arranged CHAP. VII. such a disposition in his mind before he committed it to Sect. III. writing. The question is not so much what was the degree of...testator ? as this : Had '\ he a disposing memory ? was he capable of recollecting '•'- the property he was about to bequeath ; the manner of distributing... | |
 | Isaac Grant Thompson - Law reports, digests, etc - 1873 - 802 pages
...probably no person who hns not arranged such a disposition in his mind before he committed It to writing. The question Is not so much what was the degree of...the testator as this : Had he a disposing memory? was he capable of recollecting the property he was about to bequeath, the manner of distributing it,... | |
 | Sir Edward Vaughan Williams, Walter Vere Vaughan Williams - Executors and administrators - 1877 - 902 pages
...probably no person who has not arranged such a disposition in his mind before he committed it to writing. The question is not so much what was the degree of...the testator, as this : Had he a disposing memory ? Was he capable of recollecting the property he was about to bequeath, the Swinburne, (A) " be of... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1883 - 632 pages
...is probably no person who has not arranged such a disposition in his mind before he committed it to writing. More especially in such a reduced state of...of his property which he had made by a former will, where the same is distinctly read over to him. The question is not so much what was the degree of memory... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1918 - 1036 pages
...charged the jury in Stevens v. Vaneleve, 4 Wash. С. С. 262, Fed. Cas. No. 13,412, In this language: "The question is not so much what was the degree of...by the testator as this. Had he a disposing memory? Was he capable of recollecting the property he was about to bequeath, the manner of distributing it,... | |
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The question is not so much what was the degree of memory possessed by the testator ? as this : Had he a disposing memory ? was he capable of recollecting the property he was about to bequeath; the manner of distributing it; and the objects of his bounty?... 
