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Execution of Wills

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Duplicate Will

Duplicate Will, where a testator executes two copies of his will ,one to keep himself and the other to be deposited with another person. … Duplicate Will, where a testator executes two copies of his will ,one to keep himself and the other to be

Wills

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will

will : a single will jointly executed by two or more persons and containing their respective wills [the execution of a joint will or mutual wills does not create a presumption of a contract not to revoke the

Power

survive, sed. qu., if the power is appendant to a joint beneficial interest or estate in the donees. Wills in execution of powers of appointment by will are to be executed like other wills, and to be … in another may be a power of the second sort. The legal interest is not divested by the execution of the power, but equity will compel the person seised of it to clothe the estate created with the

Trust

application of either trustee or beneficiary. See JUDICIAL TRUSTEE. By the (English) Judicature Act, 1873, s. 34, the execution of trusts, charitable or private, is assigned to the Chancery Division of the High Court of Justice. For the … (see s. 130 of that Act), s. 130 (2) assimilates informal limitations in tail in executory instru-ments or wills to limitations of personalty, and s. 130 (1), which apparently directs that limitations in tail (without any reservation

Consideration

its validity either in law or equity (except for some kinds of equitable relief, see infra), because the execution of a deed is attended by formalities from which a deliberate intention to make a binding promise is presumed. … for a transfer of property from one person to another. The nature or quality of the consideration which will be sufficient for these purposes varies with the nature of the transaction and in the absence of consideration

Deed

s. 53, and s. 58 of the (English) Law of Property Act, 1925; and s. 74 ibid. for execution of instruments by corporations, and for a number of provisions as to the construction and effect of deeds generally, … additional name should be stated so as to preserve identity on the face of the title. A mistake will not vitiate the instrument if the party can be identified by extraneous evidence, Nihil facit error nominis cum

Uses

of the meaning of this celebrated statute. Requirements of the Statute: There are several circumstances necessary to the execution of uses under the statute, viz.:- (1) A person seised to the use. (2) A cestui que use in … is an illustration of the well-known maxim, 'quitas sequitur legem. (2) They were devisable even before the Statute of Wills, 32 Hen. 8, c. 1. (3) They were transferable, although at law they were mere choses in action.

Republication of Wills

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