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64 WILLS and TESTAMENTS.
" allowed by him, and proved to be so done
" by three witnesses at the least."
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Nuncupative
wills under
£. 30 good,
with two witnesses. |
Nuncupative wills of personal estate, under
thirty pounds, may be admitted at any time
within six months after the making of such will,
on the oath of two credible witnesses at least;
for one witness only in matters merely ecclesiastical,
is as no witness at all: and where the
testimony of such will was committed to writing
within six days after the words were spoken, it
may be admitted, after the expiration of six
months.
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| Of Codicils. |
A codicil, is an additional, or second will,
wherein something is either altered, explained,
added to, or taken from the contents of the first
will; executors cannot regularly be appointed
in a codicil, but yet they may be therein substituted,
according to the will of the testator;
that is, a person or persons may be appointed
executor or executors in a codicil, in the room
of the executor instituted in the first will, in
case the same should die, or renounce the executorship;
such a codicil must be made with all
the solemnities required in the making of a will.
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Wills so circumstanced being produced, the
executor in possession of it, is in the first place |
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