 The statutes provide that, in order to be valid, a will or codicil must be signed by the testator, or by some person in his presence and by his direction, "and attested and subscribed in his presence by three or more competent witnesses.  A Treatise on the American Law of Real Property - Sida 736efter Emory Washburn - 1864Obegränsad förhandsgranskning - Om den här boken
 | Anthony Highmore - 1809 - 648 sidor
...signed by the party, or by some other person in his presence, and by his express direction, and shall be attested and subscribed in his presence, by three or four credible witnesses, or else shall be utterly void. Considerable doubts arose who were to be deemed legal witnesses within... | |
 | Sir John Comyns - 1822 - 1042 sidor
...is good, unless in writing signed by the devisor, or some other in his presence and by his express direction, and attested and subscribed in his presence by three or four credible witnesses. Vide post, (E 1.) A devise of lands devisable by custom would not be void by the; st Marl. 52 H. 3.... | |
 | Samuel Turner - 1825 - 1024 sidor
...be in Writing signed by the Party devising, or some other Person in his Presence, and by his express Direction, and attested and subscribed in his Presence, by three or four credible Witnesses, otherwise to be void and of no effect. Copyhold, or Customary Lands, or mere Chattel Interests, (unless... | |
 | James Humphreys - 1826 - 462 sidor
...the testator, or in his presence by (a) Devisare est distribuere.—Menage. his direction, and to be attested and subscribed in his presence by three or four credible witnesses. As the formalities of an instrument should precede its substance, the object and effect of the last... | |
 | Francis Hilliard - 1839 - 672 sidor
...signed by the party or by some other person in his presence, and by his express directions, and shall be attested and subscribed in his presence by three or four credible witnesses. This Statute is adopted or copied in most of the States. 2. It is said, a devise may be written upon... | |
 | Henry Chance - 1841 - 652 sidor
...Requisition of "writing, and signed" by the testator, or under his direction, l ek-tatme" and shall be attested and subscribed" in his presence " by " three or four credible witnesses." (j) 249. (*) 254. CHAP. IX. sEC. II. Sir £. Sugden's three classes of decisions on the Statute. [957.]... | |
 | William Mawdesley Best - 1845 - 232 sidor
...the person devising the same, or by some person in his presence and by his direction, and should be attested and subscribed in his presence by three or four credible witnesses." This clause has been repealed by 7 Will. 4 & 1 Viet. c. 26, s. 2 ; but as, by the 9th section of the... | |
 | Michigan. Supreme Court, Randolph Manning, George C. Gibbs, Thomas McIntyre Cooley, Elijah W. Meddaugh, William Jennison, Hovey K. Clarke, Hoyt Post, Henry Allen Chaney, William Dudley Fuller, John Adams Brooks, Marquis B. Eaton, Herschel Bouton Lazell, James M. Reasoner, Richard W. Cooper - 1913 - 794 sidor
...modeled upon the statute of frauds, 29 Car. II, c. 3, § 5, the requirement of which is that the will be 'attested and subscribed in his presence by three or four credible witnesses,' it is well settled by judicial construction that testator may , if he chooses, sign his name out of... | |
 | Isaac Fletcher Redfield - 1865 - 894 sidor
...the testator, or by some other person in his presence, and by his express direction, and should be attested and subscribed in his presence by three or four credible witnesses. The more recent English statute3 contains many of the same terms used in the statute of frauds, as... | |
 | Ontario, Alexander Leith - 1869 - 536 sidor
...the party devising, or by some other in a, of Frftu(js his presence, and by his express directions, and attested and subscribed in his presence by three or four credible Con. stat. oh. witnesses. The Con. Stat. ch. 82, sec. 13, substitutes two 8J, s 13. for three witnesses,... | |
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