1925 c. 23. 1. 39.
1961 c. 44. 6. 601).
1963 &, 44, 4, 601).
All property may be
disposed of
by will,
Ist 1837 4 26. = 3.1
No will of a person under age valid,
1837 m. 26, s. 2.
Signing and witnessing will. les 1997 . 25
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c. 24 KUJ
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"personal representative" means the executor, original or by representation, or administrator for the time being of a deceased person;
"property" includes all property both real and personal;
"state" means a territory or group of territories having its own
law of nationality:
"will" includes a codicil and any other testamentary instrument or
act, and "testator" shall be construed accordingly.
3.
PART II.
I' WILLS.
A person may by his will, executed in accordance with this Ordinance, dispose of all property which he is beneficially entitled to at the time of his death and which on his death devolves upon his personal representatives.
4.
Subject to section 6, no will made by any person under the age of twenty-one years shall be valid.
5. (1) Subject to subsection (2), no will shall be valid unless it is in writing and executed in accordance with the following rules:
Rule 1. 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.
Rule 2. Such signature shall be made or acknowledged by the testator in the presence of two or more witnesses present at the same time, and each witness shall attest by his signature the signature of the testator, or of the person signing for him, in the presence of the testator, but no form of attestation shall be necessary.
Rule 3. It is sufficient if the signature of the testator, or of the person signing for him, is so placed at or after, or following, or under, or beside, or opposite to the end of the will, that it is apparent on the face of the will that the testator intended to give effect by the signature to the writing signed as his
will.
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Rule 4. Without prejudice to the generality of Rule 1, a will
shall not be affected if
(a) the signature does not follow or is not immediately
after the foot or end of the will; or
(6) a blank space intervenes between the concluding
word of the will and the signature; or
(c) the signature—
(i) is placed among the words of the testimonium clause or of the clause of attestation; or
(ii) follows or is after or under the clause of attestation, either with or without a blank space intervening, or
(i) follows or is after, or under, or beside the names or one of the names of the attesting wit-
nesses; or
(d) the signature is on a side or page or other portion of the papers containing the will on which no clause or paragraph or disposing part of the will is written above the signature; or
(e) there appears to be sufficient space on or at the bottom of the preceding side or page or other portion of the same paper on which the will is written to contain the signature.
Rule 5. A signature shall not be operative to give effect to any disposition or direction which is underneath or which follows it, nor shall it give effect to any disposition or direction inserted after the signature is made.
(2) Any will of a Chinese testator written wholly or sub- stantially in Chinese and signed by the testator shall be valid and duly executed although not executed in accordance with the rules set out in subsection (1).
6. (1) Any member of Her Majesty's Forces being in actual naval military or air force service, and any mariner or seaman being at sea, may-
(a) dispose of any of his property;
(b) exercise any power of appointment; or
(c) appoint a person as guardian of his infant children by
will.
without complying with any of the rules specified in subsection () of section 5.
Privileged wills,
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