Wills Act 1837

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[1.]. Meaning of certain words in this Act: “Will”: “Real estate”: “Personal estate”: Number: Gender.Previous MatchNext Match

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4. 3. All property may be disposed of by will; Contingent Interests; Rights of Entry; and property acquired after the execution of the will.Previous MatchNext Match

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6. 7. No will of a person under age valid.Previous MatchNext Match

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8. 9. Signing and attestation of willsPrevious MatchNext Match

9. 10. Appointments by will to be executed like other wills, and to be valid, although other required solemnities are not observed.Previous MatchNext Match

10. 11. Soldiers and mariners wills excepted. Previous MatchNext Match

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12. 13. Publication of will not be requisite.Previous MatchNext Match

13. 14. Will not to be void on account of incompetency of attesting witness.Previous MatchNext Match

14. 15. Gifts to an attesting witness to be void. Previous MatchNext Match

15. 16. Creditor attesting to be admitted a witness.Previous MatchNext Match

16. 17. Executor shall be admitted a witness.Previous MatchNext Match

17. 18. Wills to be revoked by marriage, except in certain cases.Previous MatchNext Match

18. 18A. Effect of dissolution or annulment of marriage on wills.Previous MatchNext Match

19. 19. No will to be revoked by presumption.Previous MatchNext Match

20. 20. No will to be revoked but by another will or codicil, or by a writing executed like a will, or by destruction.Previous MatchNext Match

21. 21. No alteration in a will shall have any effect unless executed as a will.Previous MatchNext Match

22. 22. No will revoked to be revived otherwise than by Re-execution or a Codicil to revive it.Previous MatchNext Match

23. 23. A devise not to be rendered inoperative by any subsequent conveyance or act.Previous MatchNext Match

24. 24. A will shall be construed to speak from the death of the testator. Previous MatchNext Match

25. 25. Residuary devise shall include estates comprised in lapsed and void devises.Previous MatchNext Match

26. 26. A general devise of the testator’s lands shall include copyhold and leasehold as well as freehold lands.Previous MatchNext Match

27. 27. A general gift shall include estates over which the testator has a general power of appointment.Previous MatchNext Match

28. 28. A devise without any words of limitation shall be construed to pass as free.Previous MatchNext Match

29. 29. The words “die without issue,” or “die without leaving issue,” shall be construed to mean die without issue living at the death.Previous MatchNext Match

30. 30. No devise to trustees or executors, except for a term or a presentation to a church, shall pass a chattel interest.Previous MatchNext Match

31. 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.Previous MatchNext Match

32. 32. Devises of estates tail shall not lapse.Previous MatchNext Match

33. 33. Gifts to children or other issue who leave issue living at the testator’s death shall not lapse. Previous MatchNext Match

34. 34. Act not to extend to wills made before 1838, nor to estates pur autre vie of persons who die before 1838.Previous MatchNext Match

35. 35. Act not to extend to Scotland.Previous MatchNext Match

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