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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

ninety-eight, three hundred and one, three hundred

and two, three hundred and six and three hundred

and seven of article ninety-three of the Code of Pub-

lic General Laws, entitled " Testamentary law," sub-

title " Wills," be and the same are hereby re-enacted

so as to read as follows :

298. All lands, tenements and hereditaments, which

might pass by deed, and which would, in case of the

proprietor dying intestate, descend to or devolve on

his or her heirs, or other representatives except estates

How disposed

tail, and all goods, chattels, moneys, rights, credits or

of.

personal property of any kind which might pass by

deed, bill of sale, assignment or delivery, shall be sub-

ject to be disposed of, transferred and passed, by his

or her last will or codicil, under the following restric-

tions :

301. All devises and bequests of any lands, or tene-

ments or interest therein, and all bequests of any

goods, chattels or personal property of any kind as

described heretofore, shall be in writing and signed by

Who to be sign-

the party so devising or bequeathing the same, or by

ed by.

some other person for him, in his presence and by his

express direction, and shall be attested and subscribed

in the presence of the said devisor by two or more

credible witnesses, or else they shall be utterly void

and of none effect.

302. No will in writing devising lands, tenements

or hereditaments, or bequeathing any goods, chattels or

personal property of any kind, as heretofore described,

nor any clause thereof, shall be revocable otherwise

than by some other will or codicil in writing, or other

writing declaring the same, or by burning, cancelling,

tearing or obliterating the same, by the testator him-

How revocable..

self or in his presence, and by his direction and con-

sent; but all devises and bequests so made shall re-

main and continue in force until the same be destroyed

by burning, cancelling, tearing or obliterating the

same by the testator or his direction, in manner afore-

said, unless the same he altered by some other will or

codicil in writing or other writing of the devisor signed

as hereinbefore said in the presence of two or more

witnesses declaring the same.

306. No nuncupative will shall hereafter be valid in

Not to be valid

this state; but any soldier being in actual military

in this state.

service, or any mariner being at sea, may dispose of

his movables, wages and personal estate as heretofore.