direction, and attested and subscribed by three or more credible witnesses in the presence of the testator, and of each other.-Section 2734.

No nuncupative will shall pass personal estate when the estate bequeathed exceeds the value of two hundred dollars; nor shall it be proved unless a memorandum thereof is made in writing by a person present at the time of making within six days from the making of it; nor unless presented for probate within six months from the death of the testator.-Section 2735.

A soldier in actual military service, or a mariner or seaman at sea, may dispose of his wages or other personal estate as at common law.-Section 2736.

Subsequent incompetency of a witness does not prevent the probate of the will.-Section 2737.

A devise or legacy to a witness or to her or his husband or wife, is void, unless there are three other competent witnesses.-Section 2738.

A creditor is a competent witness.-Section 2738.

Will is revoked by a will, codicil or other writing, executed like a will, or by burning, cancelling, tearing or obliterating.-Section 2739.

A will made out of the state, valid according to the laws of the state or country of which it is made, may be proved and recorded in Vermont, with the same effect as if executed according to the laws of that state.-Section 2750.

A will proved and allowed in any of the United States or foreign state, may be proved and allowed in Vermont. -Section 2751.

No. 50-Virginia.

[POLLARD'S CODE, 1904, AND SUPPLEMENTS, 1916.]

No person of unsound mind or under the age of twenty

one years may make a will, except that minors eighteen years or upwards may by will dispose of personal estate. -Section 2513.

A will must be in writing, signed by the testator, or by some person in his presence and by his direction, and in such manner as to make it manifest that the same is intended as a signature; and moreover, unless it be wholly written by the testator, the signature must be made, or the will acknowledged by him in the presence of at least two competent witnesses present at the same time, and such witnesses shall subscribe the will in the presence of the testator, but no form of attestation shall be necessary. -Section 2514.

A soldier in actual military service or a mariner or seaman being at sea may dispose of his personal estate as at the common law.-Section 2516.

A will of a person domiciled out of the state at the time of his death, is valid as to personal property of the estate, if executed according to the laws of the state or country of his domicile.-Section 2516.

A will of a man or woman is revoked by subsequent marriage, except a will made in exercise of a power of appointment.-Section 2517.

A will is revoked by subsequent will or codicil, or writing, declaring an intention to revoke, and executed like a will, or by cutting, tearing, burning, obliterating, cancelling or destroying.-Section 2518.

A will once revoked can be revived only by re-execution or by a codicil expressing the intention to revive it.Section 2519.

A will speaks as of the testator's death.-Section 2521. A provision or advancement to any person, is deemed a satisfaction in whole or in part of a devise or bequest

to such person contained in a previous will, if it would be so deemed in case the devisee or legatee were a child of the testator, or if it shall appear from parol or other evidence to be so intended.-Section 2522.

The issue of a deceased devisee or legatee takes the devise or bequest, unless a different disposition is made by the will.-Section 2523.

If a person die leaving a child, either living or posthumously born, and leaving a will made when he had no child living, and making no provision or mention of any child he might have, such will is construed as if the devises and bequests therein had been limited to take effect in the event that the child shall die under the age of twenty-one years, unmarried and without issue.-Section 2527.

If a testator makes a will while having a child living, and a child is afterwards born, such afterborn child or a descendant of his, if neither provided for by settlement nor in the will, nor expressly excluded by the will, but only pretermitted, takes as in the event of intestacy. But if such afterborn child or descendant die under the age of twenty-one years, unmarried and without issue, his portion of the estate unexpended for his support reverts according to the will.-Section 2528.

A bequest to a subscribing witness, or his or her husband or wife, is void, but such witness may take what he would have been entitled to in case the will were not established, not exceeding the value of what is devised or bequeathed him.-Section 2529.

A creditor is a competent witness.-Section 2530. An executor is a competent witness.-Section 2531. When a will has been proved without the state, an authenticated copy thereof, and the certificate of probate

thereof may be offered for probate in Virginia. On such offer it is presumed that the will was duly executed as a will of personalty, in the state or country of the testator's domicile, and if it appear from such copy that the will so proved in a foreign court of probate has been so executed as to be a valid will of lands in Virginia by the law thereof, it may be admitted to probate as a will of real estate. Section 2536, amended 1906.

No. 51-Washington.

[PROBATE CODE, SESSION LAWs, 1917, CHAPTER 156.]

"Wills probated in any other state or territory of the United States, or in any foreign country or state, shall be admitted to probate in this state on the production of a copy of such will and of the original record of probate thereof, authenticated by the attestation of the clerk of the court in which such probation was made; or if there be no clerk, by the attestation of the judge thereof, and by the seal of such officers, if they have a seal.-Section 22.

"Every person who shall have attained the age of majority, of sound mind, may by last will devise all his or her estate, real and personal.-Section 24.

"Every will shall be in writing signed by the testator or the testatrix, or by some other person under his or her direction in his or her presence, and shall be attested by two or more competent witnesses, subscribing their names to the will in the presence of the testator by his direction or request: Provided, however, That a last will and testament, executed without this state, in the mode prescribed by law, either of the place where executed or the testator's domicile, shall be deemed to be legally executed, and shall be of the same force and effect as if executed in the mode prescribed by the laws of this state.-Section 25.

"No interest shall be allowed or calculated on any devise contained in any will unless such will expressly provide for such interest.-Section 26.

"Every person who shall sign the testator's or testatrix's name to any will by his or her direction shall subscribe his own name as a witness to such will and state that he subscribed the testator's name at his request.Section 27.

"No will in writing, except in cases hereinbefore mentioned, nor any part thereof, shall be revoked except by a subsequent will in writing, or by burning, canceling, tearing, or obliterating the same, by the testator or testatrix, or in his or her presence, by his or her consent or direction.-Section 28.

"If, after making any will, the testator shall marry and the wife, or husband, shall be living at the time of the death of the testator, such will shall be deemed revoked, unless provision shall have been made for such survivor by marriage settlement, or unless such survivor 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 revocation shall be received. A divorce, subsequent to the making of a will, shall revoke the will as to the divorced spouse.-Section 29.

"A bond, covenant, or agreement made for a valuable consideration by a testator to convey any property, devised or bequeathed in any last will previously made, shall not be deemed a revocation of such previous devise or bequest, but such property shall pass by the devise or bequest, subject to the same remedies on such bond, covenant, or agreement, for specific performance or otherwise, against devisees or legatees, as might be had by law