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II. Great Britain and Ireland, and British Possessions.

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No. 59-Navy and Marines (Wills) Act, 1865...

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I. UNITED STATES AND TERRITORIES

No. 1-Alabama.

[CODE, 1907.]

Every person over twenty-one may devise lands.Section 6152.

A devise may be made to any person or corporation capable of holding real estate.-Section 6153.

Where a devise is made to person or corporation incapable of taking estate, it descends as in case of intestacy, or if testator has no heirs competent to take, to the residuary devisee, otherwise if there is no residuary devisee, the estate escheats to the state.-Section 6154.

A general devise passes all real estate the testator was entitled to devise at the time of his death.-Section 6155. A devise of land passes all the estate of the devisor therein, unless a different intention appears from the will.-Section 6156.

All persons over the age of eighteen years of sound mind and no others, may by last will bequeath all of their personal property.-Section 6157.

The marriage of a woman revokes her will.-Section 6159.

An afterborn child takes as in case of intestacy.-Section 6160.

A contract to convey property devised, does not revoke the devise.-Section 6163.

A charge or incumbrance on property does not operate as revocation of devise or bequest, unless it so appears from the will that such was the testator's intention.Section 6164.

Issue of deceased child of testator take in place of parent.-Section 6166.

Wills must be in writing, signed by the testator, or by some person in his presence and by his direction, and be attested by at least two witnesses, who must subscribe their names thereto in the presence of the testator.Section 6172.

If witnesses are competent at the time of execution of the will, their subsequent incompetency will not prevent probate.-Section 6173.

Revocation is made by burning, tearing, cancelling or obliterating with the intention of revoking, either by the testator or by some person in his presence and by his direction. Revocation may also be made by another will in writing, or by some other writing subscribed by the testator and attested in the same manner as wills are required to be attested.-Section 6174.

Revocation of a subsequent will will not revive a previous will, unless such intention of the testator appears by the terms of the revocation, or unless the previous will is republished.-Section 6175.

An unwritten will of personal property is valid only when the property bequeathed thereby does not exceed in value $500.-Section 6176.

An unwritten will must be made during last sickness of deceased and at his dwelling, or where he has resided ten days or more, except when he is taken sick from home and dies before his return; and it must be proved that the testator at the time of making the same called upon the witnesses or some of them to take notice, or bear witness that such was his will.-Section 6177.

Soldiers in actual military service and mariners and seamen at sea may dispose of personalty as before the code.-Section 6178.

No unwritten will can be probated until after fourteen days after the death of the testator and notice to widow and next of kin; and after six months no probate can be had unless the testamentary words or their substance were reduced to writing within six days after making of the same.-Sections 6179, 6180.

No. 2-Alaska.

[COMPILED LAWS, 1913.]

Every person twenty-one years of age and upwards, and of sound mind, may by last will devise all his or her property, saving to the widow her dower and to the husband his rights as tenant by curtesy.-Section 563.

A will must be in writing, signed by the testator, or by some other person under his direction, in his presence, and shall be attested by two or more competent witnesses subscribing their names to the will in the presence of the testator.-Section 564.

A will is revoked by subsequent marriage and death of testator leaving issue, unless provision is made for the issue by settlement or by the will.-Section 565.

The will of an unmarried person is revoked by subsequent marriage.-Section 566.

An agreement to convey devised property is not deemed a revocation of the devise.-Section 567.

A subsequent encumbrance of real or personal property by way of security, is not a revocation of a previous devise or bequest.-Section 568.

Where the will makes no provision for a child previously or subsequently born, such child takes as in case

of intestacy unless he shall have had an equal proportion of the testator's estate bestowed upon him in the testator's lifetime by way of advancement.-Sections 569, 570.

The issue of a deceased devisee takes the estate devised as such devisee would have taken in case he had survived the testator.-Section 571.

Revocation of a second will will not revive a first will unless the intention to revive appear, or unless the first will is republished.-Section 572.

Any mariner at sea or soldier in the military service may dispose of his wages or other personal property as he might have done by common law.-Section 573.

No proof shall be received of any nuncupative will unless it be offered within six months after speaking the testamentary words, nor unless the words or the substance thereof were reduced to writing thirty days after they were spoken.-Section 574.

No probate of any nuncupative will shall be granted for fourteen days after the death of the testator, nor unless the testamentary words or their substance be first committed to writing, and a citation issued to the widow, or the next of kin.-Section 575.

A last will must be in writing, except when made by a soldier in military service, or mariner at sea.-Section 592.

Gifts to subscribing witnesses are void, but do not affect the competency of the witnesses.-Section 579.

A subscribing witness may take so much of the estate as would have been distributed to him had the will not been sustained, but not to exceed the value of the devise or bequest made to him in the will.-Section 580.

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