republication

The repetition of a slanderous statement by the person to whom it was originally communicated. 33 Am J1st L & S § 95. A publication of a will previously altered or revoked. 57 Am J1st Wills § 625. Ordinarily, when a codicil is said to "republish" a will, it is meant that a will, then valid, is repub lished as of the date of the codicil. Anno: 33 ALR2d 929. Prior to the statute of frauds, a will devising real property could be republished by parol in the same manner as a will bequeathing personalty, but since the enactment of the statute of frauds and the statute of wills a revoked will cannot be revived by an oral declaration of the testator, or otherwise than by a re-execution or republication or by a codicil. Where a statute makes no provision for a republication, but simply requires that in the original execution and publication of the will certain solemnities must be observed relative to the signing of the will by the testator and by subscribing witnesses, the weight of authority and the better rule is that the republication must be made with like solemnity as the execution of the original will and an oral republication is insufficient; nor can the republication be shown by mere parol evidence. 57 Am J1st Wills § 625.