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Inventory

house, or (see Woodfall, L. & T.) on a distress for rent, or by an executor of his testator's effects, or by an administrator of those of the intestate.

Interlineation

& 1 Vict. c. 26), be executed as the Will itself (see WILL), but the signature of the testator and the subscriptions of the witnesses may be by initials. See INITIALS.

Law, the appointment of a debtor as heir--i.e., to carry on the legal existence, the persona of the testator. By the (English) Factory and Workshop Act, 1907 (7 Edw. 7, c. 39), an institution (s. 5) carried

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Inops consilii

of counsel; without legal counsel. This term described actions taken without benefit of legal advice, as when a testator drafts a will without the help of an attorney, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 794.

Inofficious testament

Inofficious testament, a will not in a accordance with the testator's natural affection and moral duties.

Independent advice

counsel that is impartial and not given to further the interests of the person giving it. Whether a testator or donor received independent advice before making a disposition is often an important issue in an undue-influence challenge

Holograph will

Holograph will, it is one which is wholly in the handwriting of the testator, Joyce Prim Rose Prestor v. Vera Marie Vas, (1996) 9 SCC 324 (331).

Heirs

a Will must be construed in the legal sense, unless a contrary intention is clearly expressed by the testator. The word 'heirs', as pointed out by this Court in Angurbala Mullick v. Debabrata Mullick, 1951 SCR 1125

Privies

heir to his ancestor, or between coparceners. (2) Privies in representation, as executors or administrators to their deceased testator or intestate. (3) Privies in estate, as grantor and grantee, lessor and lessee, assignor and assignee, etc. (4)

Perpetuity

is to be computed from the date or delivery of the deed creating the limitation, or from the testator's death, when given by will, that being the period at which a will takes effect, while a power

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