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WILLS ACT 1837 - SECT 1



1.] The words and expressions herein-after mentioned, which in their ordinary
signification have a more confined or a different meaning, shall in this Act,
except where the nature of the provision or the context of the Act shall
exclude such construction, be interpreted as follows; (that is to say,) the
word "will" shall extend to a testament, and to a codicil, and to an
appointment by will or by writing in the nature of a will in exercise of a
power, and also to a disposition by will and testament or devise of the
custody and tuition of any child, ... by virtue of the Tenures Abolition Act
(Ireland), 1662, and to any other testamentary disposition; and the words
"real estate" shall extend to manors, advowsons, messuages, lands, tithes,
rents, and hereditaments, whether freehold, ... or of any other tenure, and
whether corporeal, incorporeal, or personal, and to any undivided share
thereof, and to any estate, right, or interest (other than a chattel interest)
therein; and the words "personal estate" shall extend to leasehold estates and
other chattels real, and also to monies, shares of government and other funds,
securities for money (not being real estates), debts, choses in action,
rights, credits, goods, and all other property whatsoever which by law
devolves upon the executor or administrator, and to any share or interest
therein; and every word importing the singular number only shall extend and be
applied to several persons or things as well as one person or thing; and every
word importing the masculine gender only shall extend and be applied to a
female as well as a male.

S.2 rep. by SLR 1874


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