Copyhold and Court-keeping Practice: With Nearly Two Hundred Precedents, and the Act for Amendment of the Laws with Respect to Wills, Intended Not Only for Use in the Office of the Most Experienced Practitioner, But Simplified in Such a Manner as to Enable a Town Or Country Solicitor...to Transact with Ease All the General Business in Admissions...&cproprietors of the Legal observer, 1837 - 233 pages |
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abstract abstract of title administrators admission admitted tenant aforesaid amount annuity Appendix appointment appurtenances bankrupt bankruptcy bargain and sale bearing date certificate charges clause completion conditional surrender contract conveyance copy copyhold hereditaments copyhold tenant court baron Court of equity court rolls custom customary deed of covenant deemed delivered deputy steward devise discharge documents draft enfranchisement engrossments enter satisfaction entitled equity examination execution executors expence fee simple feme covert freebench freehold gagee heirs and assigns hereby hereditaments and premises hereinafter incumbrances indenture interest lawful money lord manor ment messuages mort mortgagee mortgagor notice obtain paid party passed payment person perusal possession power of attorney prepared present proclamation purchase money purchaser's solicitor recited rents requisite respect Scriven stamp Stamp Act stipulation surrender and release thereof tion trust unto usual valuation vendor vendor's solicitor warrant to enter whatsoever whereas wife
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Page 217 - It shall be signed at the foot or end thereof, by the testator or by some other person in his presence, and by his direction, and such signature shall be made or acknowledged by the testator, in the presence of two or more witnesses present at the same time, and such witnesses shall attest and shall subscribe the will in the presence of the testator and of each other but no form of attestation shall be necessary.
Page 220 - ... shall be construed to include any real estate, or any real estate to which such description shall extend (as the case may be), which he may have power to appoint in any manner he may think proper, and shall operate as an execution of such power, unless a contrary intention shall appear by the will...
Page 221 - ... or any other words which may import either a want or failure of issue of any person in his lifetime or at the time of his death, or an indefinite failure of his issue shall be construed to mean a want or failure of issue in the lifetime or at the...
Page 219 - ... of the will before such alteration shall not be apparent, unless such alteration shall be executed in like manner as herein-before is required for the execution of the will ; but the will, with such alteration as part thereof, shall be deemed to be duly executed if the signature of the testator and the subscription of the witnesses be made in the margin or on some other part of the will...
Page 222 - ... shall be living at the time of the death of the testator, such devise or bequest shall not lapse, but shall take effect as if the death of such person had happened immediately after the death of the testator, unless a contrary intention shall appear by the will.
Page 219 - ... by the burning, tearing, or otherwise destroying the same by the testator, or by some person in his presence and by his direction, with the intention of revoking the same.
Page 214 - And be it further enacted, that it shall be lawful for every person to devise, bequeath, or dispose of, by his will executed in manner hereinafter required, all real estate and all personal estate which he shall be entitled to, either at law or in equity, at the time of his death...
Page 220 - And be it further enacted, that every will shall be construed, with reference to the real estate and personal estate comprised in it, to speak and take effect as if it had been executed immediately before the death of the testator, unless a contrary intention shall appear by the will.
Page 219 - ... manner hereinbefore required, and showing an intention to revive the same ; and when any will or codicil which shall be partly revoked, and afterwards wholly revoked, shall be revived, such revival shall not extend to so much thereof as shall have been revoked before the revocation of the whole thereof, unless an intention to the contrary shall be shown.
Page 220 - A general devise of the real estate of the testator, or of the real estate of the testator in any place or in the occupation of any person mentioned in his will, or otherwise described in a general manner...