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Wills Act 1837 — Infobox UK Legislation short title=Wills Act 1837 parliament=Parliament of the United Kingdom long title=An Act for the Amendment of the Laws with respect to Wills. statute book chapter=1 Vict. c.26 introduced by=Attorney General Sir John… … Wikipedia
Wills Act — In England, the statute 32 Hen. VIII, c. 1, passed in 1540, by which persons seized in fee simple of lands holden in socage tenure were enabled to devise the same at their will and pleasure, except to bodies corporate; and those who held estates… … Black's law dictionary
WILLS — (Heb. צַוָּאָה). A will is a person s disposition of his property in favor of another in such manner that the testator retains the property or his rights to it until his death. There are three different forms of wills, each governed by different… … Encyclopedia of Judaism
Legal history of wills — Wills in the Ancient WorldThe will, if not purely Roman in origin, at least owes to Roman law its complete development, a development which in most European countries was greatly aided at a later period by ecclesiastics versed in Roman law. In… … Wikipedia
Act of Settlement 1703 — The Act of Settlement of 1703 (passed in 1704) was an Act of Tynwald passed clarifying the status of the population of the Isle of Man. It has been referred to as a Manx Magna Carta as its aim was to preserve the rights of the peasants in… … Wikipedia
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act of independent significance — noun A doctrine in the law of wills under which a testator may effectively change the disposition of his property without changing the text of the will, so long as the acts or events changing the disposition have some significance other than… … Wiktionary
wills — wɪl n. desire; will power; want; determination; volition n. last testament listing inheritors of a dying person s property v. want; act by will power; cause will power; command; determine, decide v. verb used together with other verbs to… … English contemporary dictionary
privileged wills — wills of soldiers on actual military service and of mariners at sea may be valid even although they do not satisfy the requirements of the Wills Act 1837 by virtue of the provisions of that Act and the Wills (Soldiers and Sailors) Act 1918. A… … Law dictionary
Statute of Wills — Infobox UK Legislation short title=Statute of Wills parliament=Parliament of England long title=The Act of Wills, Wards, and Primer Seisins, whereby a Man may devise Two Parts of his Land. statute book chapter=Hen. 8 32, c.1 introduced by=… … Wikipedia
