 | Joseph Chitty - 1833 - 1020 pages
...burnt, cancelled, torn, or obliterated by the testator CHAP. IV. or his directions, in manner aforesaid, or unless the same be altered by some other will or...writing of the devisor, signed in the presence of three or four witnesses, declaring the same." (J) The operation of these acts may be conveniently considered... | |
 | William Blackstone - 1836 - 848 pages
...force, until the same be burnt, cancelled, torn or obliterated by the testator, or by his direction ; or unless the same be altered by some other will or...other writing of the devisor signed in the presence of three or four witnesses, declaring the same. This clause has been construed disjunctively ; and it... | |
 | Patrick Brady Leigh - 1838 - 774 pages
...burnt, cancelled, torn, or obi iterated by the testator, or by his directions, in manner aforesaid; or unless the same be altered by some other will or...writing of the devisor, signed in the presence of three or four witnesses, declaring the same." "Under this section a will relating to real property... | |
 | William Burge - 1838 - 922 pages
...declaring the same ; but all devises and bequests of lands and tenements remain and continue in force, unless the same be altered by some other will or codicil...writing of the devisor, signed in the presence of three or four witnesses, declaring the same. The 22nd section provides that " no will in writing, concerning... | |
 | William Selwyn - 1838 - 838 pages
...burnt, cancelled, torn, or obliterated by the testator, or by his directions, in manner aforesaid;. or unless the same be altered by some other will or...in writing, or other writing of the devisor, signed i Per Lord Kenyon, CJ'in a case 1 Lowe v. Jolliffe, 1 Bl. R. 365. cited by Lawrence, J. in Gordon v.... | |
 | Patrick Brady Leigh - 1838 - 928 pages
...torn, or obliterated by the testator. or by his directions, in manner aforesaid; or unless the same !> altered by some other will or codicil in writing,...writing of the devisor, signed in the presence of three or four witnesKJ, declaring the same." " Sec. 16. » Sec. 1C. 25 Geo. II. c. 6. 8. 2. ante, 1520.... | |
 | Great Britain. Court of King's Bench, John Leycester Adolphus, Thomas Flower Ellis - 1840 - 1104 pages
...against ing &c. ; and that all devises of lands shall remain in force until the same be burnt &c., "or unless the same be altered by some other will...other writing of the devisor signed in the presence of three or four witnesses, declaring the same." It has been considered (a) that the words " signed in... | |
 | Great Britain. Court of King's Bench, John Leycester Adolphus, Thomas Flower Ellis - 1840 - 1100 pages
...that all devises of lands shall remain in force until the same be burnt &c., "or unless the same he altered by some other will or codicil in writing,...other writing of the devisor signed in the presence of three or four witnesses, declaring the same." It has been considered (a) that the words " signed in... | |
 | Henry Chance - 1841 - 652 pages
...of Frauds ; the section referred to declares, that devises shall remain in force until burnt, &c., or, " unless the same be altered by some other will...writing, or other writing of the devisor signed in the presenee " of three or four witnesses, declaring the same ;" and in the above case it was held, that... | |
 | Thomas Starkie - 1842 - 1188 pages
...same be burnt, cancelled, torn or obliterated by the testator or his directions in manner aforesaid, or unless the same be altered by some other will or...writing of the devisor, signed in the presence of three or four witnesses, declaring the same. In the first place, then, a will may be revoked by some... | |
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