 | Thomas Coventry - Conveyancing - 1832 - 390 pages
...otherwise than by some other will or codicil in writing, signed in the presence of three or four witnesses declaring the same, or by burning, cancelling, tearing,...the testator himself, or in his presence and by his directions and consent f. It is scarcely necessary in a work of this nature, to run through the numerous... | |
 | Henry Roscoe - Evidence (Law) - 1832 - 660 pages
...Revocation of will by cancelling, fyc.] By the same section of the statute a will may be revoked " by burning, cancelling, tearing, or obliterating the...the testator himself, or in his presence, and by his directions and consent.'' The act must be done with an intention of revoking, and though the burning... | |
 | Joseph Chitty - Civil procedure - 1833 - 1020 pages
...then section 6 enacts that " no such devise in writing, nor any clause thereof, shall at any time be revocable, otherwise than by some other will or codicil...the testator himself, or in his presence and by his directions and consent ; but all devises and bequests of lands and tenements shall remain and continue... | |
 | Pennsylvania. Laws, statutes, etc - Law - 1833 - 582 pages
...real esand codicils, tate shall be repealed, nor shall any devise or direction therein be altered, otherwise than by (some other will or codicil in writing, or other writing declaring the same executed, and proved in the same manner as is hereinbefore provided, or by burning, cancelling, or... | |
 | Connecticut - Law - 1835 - 646 pages
...and testament. Actual revoca- SECT. 6. No devise of real estate shall be revoked, n' otherwise than by burning, cancelling, tearing, or obliterating the...same, by the testator himself, or in his presence, by his direction and consent ; or by some other will or codicil in writing, declaring the same, signed... | |
 | Great Britain - Law - 1836 - 1022 pages
...hereditaments, nor any clause thereof, shall at any time after the said four and twentieth day of June be revocable, otherwise than by some other will or codicil in writing or other wrilini declaring the same, or by burning cancelling tearing or obliterating ('Ji) the same by the... | |
 | Patrick Brady Leigh - Nisi prius - 1838 - 774 pages
...tene- revoking a inents, or hereditaments, nor any clause thereof, shall be revo- wil1 °f real cable, otherwise than by some other will or codicil in writing,...the testator himself or in his presence, and by his directions and consent; but all devises and bequests of lands and tenements shall remain and continue... | |
 | William Burge - Comparative law - 1838 - 922 pages
...Frauds, and in the jurisprudence of the United States, a will is revoked by burning, tearing, cancelling, or obliterating the same by the testator himself,...in his presence, and by his direction and consent. The recent act enacts, that no will shall be revoked otherwise than by the marriage of the testator... | |
 | William Burge - Comparative law - 1838 - 916 pages
...Statute of Frauds, no devise in writing of lands, tenements, or hereditaments, nor any clause thereof, is revocable, otherwise than by some other will or codicil in writing, or other writing declaring the same ; but all devises and bequests of lands and tenements remain and continue in force, unless the same... | |
 | Charles Watkins, Henry Hopley White - Conveyancing - 1838 - 596 pages
...shall be revocable otherwise than by some other will or codicil, or by burning, tearing, cancelling, or obliterating the same by the testator himself, or in his presence and by his directions and consent, s. 6. [The two preceding sections, 5 and 6, are now revoked by the recent statute... | |
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... no devise in writing of lands, tenements or hereditaments, or 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... 
