1418 TESTAMENTARY LAW. [ART. 93.
P. G. L., (1860,) art. 93, sec. 306. 1810, ch. 34, sec. 1. 1884, ch 293.
318. No nuncupative will shall hereafter be valid in this.
State; but any soldier being in actual military service, or any
mariner being at sea, may dispose of his movables, wages, and.
personal estate as heretofore.
Brayfield v. Brayfield, 3 H. & J. 208. Dorsey v. Sheppard, 12 G. & J. 192.
Welling v. Owings, 9 Gill, 470. Weems v. Weems, 19 Md. 348. O'Neill v.
Smith, 33 Md. 569. Biddle v. Biddle, 36 Md. 630. Hammett v. Shanks, 41
Md. 201.
Ibid. sec. 307. 1810, ch. 34, sec. 2. 1884, ch. 293. 1888, ch. 544.
319. Every will and other testamentary instrument made out
of the State shall be held to be valid if the same be made accord-
ing to the forms required by the law of the place where the same
was made, or by the law of the place where such person was
residing when the same was made; and the said will, when so
executed, shall be admitted to probate in any orphans' court of
this State.
Brayfield v. Brayfield, 3 H. & J. 208. Dorsey v. Sheppard, 12 G & J. 192.
Welling v. Owings, 9 Gill, 470 Weems v. Weems, 19 Md. 3,8.
Ibid, sec 808. 1842, ch. 293, sec. 6.
320. A wife shall have a right to make a will, and give all
her property, or any part thereof, to her husband, or to other
persons, with the consent of her husband subscribed to said will;
provided always, that the wife shall have been privately exam-
ined by the witnesses to her will, apart from and out of the
presence and hearing of her husband, whether she doth make-
the same will freely and voluntarily, and without being induced
thereto by fear or threats of, or ill usage by, her said husband,
and says she does it willingly and freely; but no will under this
section shall be valid unless made at least sixty days before the
death of the testatrix. This section not to apply to property
acquired since January 12, 1860.
Michael v. Baker, 12 Md. 158 Buchanan v. Turner, 26 Md. 1. Schull v.
Murray, 32 Md. 9.
Ibid sec. 309. 1849, ch. 229.
321. Every last will and testament executed in due form of
law after the first day of June, eighteen hundred and fifty, shall
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