 | Standish Grove Grady - 1868 - 582 páginas
...on this much discussed subject. Mr Macn. 1 Prins. HL 3, says, A will is nothing more nor less than the legal declaration of a man's intentions which he wills to be performed after his death, but willingness to do that which the law has prohibited cannot be held to .be a legal... | |
 | Alexander Mansfield Burrill - 1870 - 674 páginas
...quod quis post mortem suam fieri velit. Dig. 28. 1. 1. Blackstone's translation of this definition is, "the legal declaration of a man's intentions, which he wills to be performed after his death." 2 Bl. Com. 499. For other translations, see Testamenlum. Webster's definition presents... | |
 | 1871 - 874 páginas
...testamentary disposition. It is emphatically the will of the person who makes it, and is defined to be the legal declaration of a man's intentions, which he wills to be performed after his death. These intentions are to be collected from his words, and ought to be carried into... | |
 | John Cochrane - 1872 - 460 páginas
...to which he could not have given effect during his lifetime. A will is nothing more or less than ' the legal declaration of a man's intentions which he wills to be performed after his death ; ' but willing to do that which the law has prohibited cannot be held to be a legal... | |
 | John Cochrane - 1872 - 456 páginas
...to which he could not have given effect during his lifetime. A will is nothing more or less than ' the legal declaration of a man's intentions which he wills to be performed after his death ; ' but willing to do that which the law has prohibited cannot be held to be a legal... | |
 | Richard Thomas Walkem - 1873 - 580 páginas
...de eo quod quis post mortem CHAP. III. suam fieri velit," which is thus translated by Blackstone : " The legal declaration of a man's intentions which he wills to be performed after his death " (a). The definition adopted by that eminent writer is, "a right given to the proprietor... | |
 | Isaac Grant Thompson - 1873 - 802 páginas
...testamentary disposition. It is emphatically the will of the person who makes it, and is defined to be 'the legal declaration of a man's intentions, which he wills to be performed after his death.' These intentions are to be collected from his words, and ought to be carried into... | |
 | David A. McKnight - 1878 - 446 páginas
...it be signed or sealed by the testator and published in the presence of witnesses.'' But a will, " the legal declaration of a man's intentions, which he wills to be performed after his death," could at common law be proven under certain circumstances by witnesses who were not... | |
 | Edward Henslowe Bedford - 1879 - 308 páginas
...the Common Pleas. CHAPTER XXV. THE CONVEYANCE BY DEVISE. What is a will or testament and a codicil ? The legal declaration of a man's intentions which he wills to be performed after his death. A codicil, derived from the Latin word codicillm, is a supplement to a will containing... | |
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It is emphatically the will of the person who makes it, and is defined to be ' the legal declaration of a man's intentions which he wills to be performed after his death. 
