A prior will is not revoked by a subsequent will unless the latter contains an express revocation or provisions wholly inconsistent with the prior will.-Section 1021.

If after making a will the testator duly makes and executes a subsequent will, a revocation of the latter does not revive the former unless it appears by the terms of such revocation that it was his intention to revive the former, or unless the prior will is republished.-Section 1022.

Subsequent marriage and birth of children revoke the will where a wife or issue survives the testator, unless provision has been made for such issue by some settlement or in the will, or intention not to make such provision appears from the will.-Section 1023.

Subsequent marriage of the testator revokes the will where a wife survives unless she is provided for by marriage contract, or by the will, or an intention not to provide for her appears from the will.-Section 1023.

A will by an unmarried woman is revoked by her subsequent marriage and not revived by the death of her husband.-Section 1024.

An agreement to sell divested property does not revoke such devise.-Section 1025.

A charge or encumbrance on any estate does not revoke a devise or legacy thereof.-Section 1026.

A devise is not revoked by any act of the testator by which his interest in the thing disposed of by his will is altered, but not wholly divested.-Section 1027.

Where testator, after making his will, has child born, and dies leaving such child unprovided for by settlement or in will nor mentioned therein, such child takes as in event of intestacy.-Section 1030.

If testator omits to provide in his will for any child

or issue of deceased child, unless omission appears to be intentional, such child or issue takes as in event of intestacy.-Section 1030, sub. 1.

If such children or their descendants so unprovided for had received advancements equal to their share, they take nothing.-Section 1030, sub. 3.

A devise of land conveys all the estate of the testator therein, unless a contrary intention appears.-Section 1030, sub. 4.

Where devisee or legatee dies before testator, his lineal descendants may take as he would have done.-Section 1031.

Gift to subscribing witness is void.-Section 1032.

A creditor is a competent witness.-Section 1032. Subscribing witness who would have been entitled to a share in the estate in case the will was not established takes so much of said share as will not exceed the devise or bequest made to him in the will.-Section 1033.

Subsequent incompetency of a witness does not prevent probate.-Section 1034.

After-acquired property passes by the will unless the contrary intention is manifested in the will.-Section 1035.

A testamentary disposition to "heirs," "relations," "nearest relations," "representatives," "legal representatives," or "personal representatives," or "family," "issue," "descendants," "nearest," or "next of kin," of any person, without other words of qualification, and when the terms are used as words of donation, and not of limitation, vests the property in those who would succeed to the same in the event of intestacy.-Section 1053.

No. 46-Tennessee.

[THOMPSON'S-SHANNON'S CODE, 1917.]

A will devising realty must be in writing, signed by the testator, or some other person in his presence, and by his direction, and subscribed in his presence by two witnesses at least, neither of whom is interested in the devise of said lands.-Section 3895.

A will written by the testator having his name subscribed to it, or inserted in some part of it, and found after his death among his valuable papers or lodged in the hands of another for safe-keeping, is sufficient to convey lands, if the handwriting is generally known by his acquaintances and it is proved by at least three credible witnesses that they verily believe the handwriting and every part of it to be in his own hand.-Section 3896. Devise conveys the entire estate, unless the contrary intention appears.-Section 3897.

No nuncupative will is good where the estate exceeds $250.00, unless proved by two disinterested witnesses present at the making thereof, and unless they or some of them were especially required to bear witness thereto by the testator himself, and unless it was made in his last sickness, in his own habitation or dwelling house, or where he had been previously residing ten days at least, except he be surprised by sickness on a journey or from home and dies before returning to his home.-Section 3898.

No nuncupative will may be proved by witnesses after six months from the making, unless it were put in writing within ten days, nor shall it be proved until fourteen days after the death of the testator and after process to call in the widow or next of kin.-Section 3899.

No written will may be revoked or altered by a sub

sequent nuncupative will, unless the same be in the lifetime of the testator reduced to writing and read over to him and approved, and unless the same be proved to be so done by the oaths of two witnesses.-Section 3900.

A married woman may dispose of any estate in the execution of a special power to that effect, by a will in writing subscribed by herself, or by some other person in her presence, and by her direction, and the subscription shall be made or the will acknowledged by her in the presence of at least two witnesses subscribing their names in the presence of the testatrix.-Section 3901.

Wills executed in other states, or in any territory, or District of Columbia, shall be proved according to the laws of this state, and certified in the manner prescribed by the act of Congress.-Section 3914.

Copy of will so certified shall be registered in county where land lies.-Section 3915.

A duly authenticated copy of a foreign will, proved in the court of any state or territory of the United States, has the same force and effect as if the original had been executed in Tennessee and proved and allowed in the courts of Tennessee.-Section 3916.

Provision is made for accepting and recording wills of personalty, and wills of realty and of personalty executed by a resident of a foreign country and probated therein.-Sections 3921, 3924a to 3924a-11.

A last will of any person in the military or naval service of the United States, made in a foreign country, or at sea while in such service, may be admitted to probate upon the certificate of the colonel, lieutenant colonel, major or commanding officer of the regiment, or captain or commander of a vessel, setting forth that the testator

acknowledged, or that the subscribing witnesses proved the will made by him.-Section 3926.

A pretermitted child, born either before or after the death of the testator, takes as in case of intestacy.-Section 3925.

A will speaks from the death of the testator.-Section 3927.

A gift to a deceased legatee or devisee goes to his issue, if any.-Section 3928.

No. 47-Texas.

[VERNON'S SAYLES' TEXAS CIVIL STATUTES, 1914.]

Every person twenty-one or upwards, and who may be or may have been lawfully married, being of sound mind, may make a will.-Article 7855.

Entire estate, right, title and interest may be devised or bequeathed.-Article 7856.

Will must be in writing, signed by the testator, or by some other person by his direction and in his presence, and shall, if not wholly written by himself, be attested by two or more credible witnesses above the age of fourteen, subscribing their names in the presence of the testator.-Article 7857.

Where a will is wholly written by the testator, no attestation by subscribing witnesses is necessary.-Article 7858.

A will is revoked by a subsequent will, codicil or declaration in writing, executed like a will, or by destruction, cancelling or obliterating.-Article 7859.

No nuncupative will shall be established, unless made at the time of the last sickness of the deceased, at his habitation, or where he has resided for ten days next preceding, except when the deceased is taken sick from