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Republication of Wills

1837 (7 Wm. 4 & 1 Vict. c. 26), provides in s. 22 as follows:- No will or codicil, or any part thereof, which shall be in any manner revoked, shall be revived otherwise than by the

Wills

be construed. The first s. enacts that the word 'will' shall extend to a testament, and to a codicil and to an appointment by will or by writing in the nature of a will in exercise of

Remainder

particular estate and the remainders must be created by the same deed or instrument, but a will and codicil may be fairly denominated the same instrument, for they take effect at the same time; and a deed

Will

321 (329): AIR 2004 SC 1772. (Succession Act, 1925, ss. 57, 58 and 59) Will shall include a codicil and every writing making a voluntary posthumous disposition of property. [General Clauses Act, 1897 (10 of 1897), s.

Throughout

Throughout, means where a codicil revokes the appointment of an executor and substitutes another person in his stead and goes on to declare

Testamentary disposition

on the execution of the document. A testamentary disposition is generally effected by a will or by a codicil which means an instrument made in relation to a will extending, altering or adding to its disposition and

Tenor

Where the appointment of an executor is not express, but only constructive, upon construction of the will or codicil, he is usually called 'executor according to the tenor'; see Williams on Executors; In the Goods of Lush,

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