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WILLS ACT 1837

TABLE OF PROVISIONS

           Long Title

   1.      Section 1
   3.      All property may be disposed of by will;
   7.      No will of a person under age valid.
   9.      Every will shall be in writing, and signed or acknowledged by the
           testator in the presence of two witnesses at one time, who shall
           attest the will.
   10.     Appointments by will to be executed like other wills, and to be
           valid, although other required solemnities are not observed.
   11.     Saving as to wills of soldiers and mariners.
   13.     Publication of will not requisite.
   14.     Will not to be void on account of incompetency of attesting
           witness.
   15.     Gifts to an attesting witness, or his or her wife or husband, to
           be void.
   16.     Creditor attesting a will charging estate with debts shall be
           admitted a witness.
   17.     Executor shall be admitted a witness.
   18.     Wills to be revoked by marriage except in certain cases.
   19.     No will to be revoked by presumption from altered circumstances.
   20.     No will to be revoked otherwise than as aforesaid or by another
           will or codicil, or by destruction thereof.
   21.     No alteration in a will after execution except in certain cases,
           shall have any effect, unless executed as a will.
   22.     No revoked will shall be revived otherwise than by re-execution or
           a codicil, &c.
   23.     Subsequent conveyance or other act not to prevent operation of will.
   24.     Wills shall be construed, as to the estate comprised, to speak from
           the death of the testator.
   25.     Residuary devises shall include estates comprised in lapsed and void
           devises.
   26.     A general devise of the testator's lands shall include leasehold as
           well as freehold lands, in the absence of a contrary intention.
   27.     A general gift of realty or personalty shall include property over
           which the testator has a general power of appointment.
   28.     A devise of real estate without any words of limitation shall pass
           the fee, &c.
   29.     The words ""die without issue'', or ""die without leaving issue,''
           &c. shall mean a want or failure of issue in the lifetime or at
           the death of the person, except in certain cases.
   30.     Devise of realty to trustees or executors shall pass the fee, &c.,
           except in certain cases.
   31.     Trustees under an unlimited devise, where the trust may endure
           beyond the life of a person beneficially entitled for life, shall
           take the fee. &c.
   32.     Devises of estates tail shall not lapse where inheritable issue
           survives, &c.
   33.     Gifts to children or other issue who leave issue living at the
           testator's death shall not lapse.
   34.     Act not to extend to wills made before 1838, nor to estates pur
           autre vie of persons who die before 1838.


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