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Wills.

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CHAPTER 30.

WILLS ORDINANCE.

ARRANGEMENT OF SECTIONS.

PART 1.

PRELIMINARY.

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Short title

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Interpretation ...

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PART II.

WILLS.

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All property may be disposed of by will

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No will of a person under age valid

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Signing and witnessing will

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Privileged wills

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Appointment by will

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Publication of will not necessary ....

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Will not void on account of incompetency of witness

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Avoidance of gifts to attesting witnesses and their spouses

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Creditor attesting will charging estate with debts admissible as witness

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Executor admissible as witness

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Revocation of will by marriage

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No revocation by presumption from altered circumstances

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Modes of revocation of will...

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Alterations in will after execution

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Revoked will not revived otherwise than by re-execution or codicil

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Subsequent conveyance or other act not to prevent operation of will

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Will to speak from death of testator

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General disposition of land to include leasehold

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General disposition of property to include property over which testator

has a general power of appointment

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Meaning of "die without issue" etc.

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Gifts to children or other issue who leave issue living at the testator's death

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PART III.

CONFLICT OF LAWS RELATING TO TESTAMENTARY DISPOSITIONS.

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General rule as to formal validity

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Additional rules

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Certain requirements to be treated as formal

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Construction of wills

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Application where two or more systems of law in force in territory or state

Determination of conformity of execution of will to particular law

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PART IV.

APPLICATION.

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