No proof of a nuncupative will can be made after six months from the speaking of the testamentary words, unless they or the substance thereof were reduced to writing within six days after they were spoken. Fourteen days must elapse after death of the deceased before probate. A soldier in actual service, or a marine on shipboard, may dispose of personal estate by nuncupative will as at common law.-Section 1292.

Gift to subscribing witnesses void unless there be two other competent subscribing witnesses.-Section 1293. Where subscribing witness is heir at law, he may take so much of the estate as would have descended to him, not exceeding the amount given him in the will.-Section 1294.

Will is revoked by burning, tearing, cancelling, or obliterating, or by another will or codicil in writing, or by another writing executed like a will.-Section 1295.

A will may be sealed and deposited with the judge of probate.-Section 1296.

A foreign will proved according to the laws of any state or country may be allowed in Nebraska.-Section 1307.

A will probated in a foreign state or country may be probated in Nebraska by an authenticated copy of such will and the probate thereof.-Section 1308.

After-born children take as if there had been no will, where no provision is made for such children, unless the intention to omit appears from the will.-Section 1311.

Pretermitted children and issue of deceased children take as if there had been no will.-Section 1312.

No. 30-Nevada.

[REVISED LAWS, 1912.]

Every person over the age of eighteen years, of sound mind, may make a will.-Section 6202.

Married woman may dispose of all of her separate estate without the consent of her husband.-Section 6203. No will executed in this state except nuncupative wills and holographic wills, shall be valid unless in writing, and signed by the testator, or by some person in his presence and by his express direction, and attested by at least two competent witnesses, subscribing their names to the will in the presence of the testator.-Section 6204, amendment of 1915.

Provisions in favor of subscribing witnesses are void, unless there are two other competent subscribing witnesses.-Section 6205.

No nuncupative or verbal will shall be good where the estate bequeathed exceeds the value of one thousand dollars, nor unless the same be proved by two witnesses who were present at the making thereof, nor unless it be proved that the testator, at the time of pronouncing the same, did bid some one present to bear witness that such was his will, or words of like import, nor unless such nuncupative will was made at the time of the last sickness of the deceased.-Section 6206.

No proof shall be received of any nuncupative will unless it be offered within three months after speaking the testamentary words.-Section 6207.

No probate of any nuncupative will shall be granted for fourteen days after the death of the testator, nor shall any nuncupative will be at any time proved unless the testamentary words, or the substance thereof, be first committed to writing by the probate judge, and process

issued to call in the widow, should she be a resident of the territory, or other person or persons interested as heirs of the testator, residing in the territory, to contest the probate of such will, if they think proper.-Section 6208.

No will in writing shall be revoked, unless by burning, tearing, cancelling or obliterating the same with the intention of revoking it by the testator, or by some person in his presence, or by his direction, or by some other will or codicil in writing, duly executed, but this does not prevent revocation being implied by law from subsequent changes in the condition or circumstances of the testator. -Section 6209.

If after making a will the testator shall marry and the wife shall be living at the death of the testator, such will shall be deemed revoked unless she shall be provided for in the will, or in such way mentioned therein as to show an intention not to make such provision, and no other evidence to rebut the presumption of such revocation shall be received.-Section 6211.

A will executed by a married woman shall be deemed revoked by her subsequent marriage, and shall not be revived by the death of her husband.-Section 6212.

When any child shall have been born after the making of its parent's will, and no provisions shall be made for him or her therein, such child shall have the same share in the estate of the testator as if the testator had died. intestate, unless it shall be apparent from the will that it was the intention of the testator that no provisions should be made for such child.-Section 6215.

When any testator shall omit to provide in his or her will for any of his or her children, or for the issue of any deceased child, unless it shall appear that such omis

sion was intentional, such child, or the issue of such child, shall have the same share in the estate of the testator as if he or she had died intestate.-Section 6216.

When any share of the estate of a testator shall be assigned to a child born after the making of a will, or to a child or the issue of a child omitted in the will, the same shall first be taken from the estate not disposed of by the will, if any; if that shall not be sufficient, so much as shall be necessary shall be taken from all the devisees or legatees, in proportion to the value they may respectively receive under the will, unless the obvious intention of the testator, in relation to some specific devise or bequest or other provision in the will would be thereby defeated; in such case, such specific devise, legacy, or provision, may be exempted from such apportionment, and a different apportionment, consistent with the intention of the testator, may be adopted.-Section 6217.

If such child or children, or their descendants, so unprovided for, shall have had an equal proportion of the testator's estate bestowed upon them in the testator's lifetime, by way of advancement, they shall take nothing in virtue of the preceding provisions.-Section 6218.

A devise to a relative of the testator who dies before him leaving lineal descendants, such descendants take in his place.-Section 6219.

Every devise of land is construed to convey all the estate therein of the testator, unless the will clearly shows a contrary intention.-Section 6220.

After-acquired property passes under a will.-Section

6221.

Property may be given by a holographic will. It is one entirely written by the hand of the testator; it is subject to no other form, may be made in or out of the state, and need not be witnessed.-Sections 6223, 6224.

No. 31-New Hampshire.

[PUBLIC STATUTES, 1901, CHAPTER 186.]

Every person, including married women, of the age of twenty-one years, of sound mind, may make a will.Section 1.

A will must be in writing, signed by the testator, or some person in his presence, and by his express direction, and attested and subscribed in his presence by three witnesses.-Section 2.

A will need not be under seal.-Section 2.

A gift to a subscribing witness is void unless there be three other subscribing witnesses. A creditor may be a subscribing witness.-Section 3.

Members of a corporation beneficiary under the will are competent witnesses.-Section 4.

A will executed out of the state according to the laws of the state where executed, is valid in New Hampshire.Section 5.

Devise of real estate passes the whole interest, unless contrary intention appears.-Section 6.

After-acquired property passes by a will, if such appears to be the intention.-Section 7.

After-born children and pretermitted children take as in case of intestacy.-Section 10.

Descendants of a legatee or devisee who died before the testator, take as their ancestors would have taken.Section 12.

A widow or widower under a will may waive their rights under the will, and receive their dower or curtesy. -Section 13.

A will is revoked by another will, codicil or writing executed in the same manner; by cancelling, tearing, obliterating or otherwise destroying the same.-Section 14.

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