Author: Robert Thomas DevlinPublisher: Rarebooksclub.com
ISBN: 9781230042770
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Languages : en
Pages : 398
Book Description
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1911 edition. Excerpt: ...and this is done in part to do away with all need or necessity of taking out letters of administration after my death." The instrument was signed and at-I tested by two subscribing witnesses.' An instrument may be partly a deed and partly a will.' A deed is not converted into a will because it states that it is not to go into effect until after the grantor's death: An instrument which grants certain land to the husband of the maker for life, and thereafter to her child or children, is a deed, and is not testamentary in its Ga. 515; Jacks v. Henderson, 1 Desaus. Eq. 543. But where it is Stein v. North, 3 Yeates, 324; Winch v. Brutton, 8 Jur. 1086. sought to have an informal paper declared to be a will, it must be proven that it is the act of the d'e--ceased, and that it was executed anima teslandi: Collins v. Townlcy, 6 Green, C. E., 353; Combs v. Jolly, 2 Green Ch. 625. And see Anderson v. Prior, 18 Miss. 620; Frew v. Clarke, 80 Pa. St. 170; Brunson v. King, 2 Hill Ch. 483; "Simon v. Wildt, 84 Ky. 157. 7Sharp v. Hall, 86 Ala. 110, 11 Am. St. Rep. Z8. "Burlington University v. Barrett, 22 Iowa, 60, 92 Am. Dec. 376. And see Evans v. Smith, 28 Ga. 98, 73 Am. Dec. 751. 9 Seals v. Pierce, Little & Co., 83 Ga. 787, 20 Am. St. Rep. 344. character.' An instrument does not become a will because it contains a clause that it is not to take effect until the grantor's death.' A father conveyed land to his daughter, reserving "to his own use and enjoyment the full interest and estate in the above-described property, the rents, issues, and profits therof, for and during the time of his natural life, and providing that, if his wife should "survive him, then, at his death, she...
