 | Samuel Hallifax - 1769 - 90 páginas
...Societies, may be continued by him, after his deceafe, in fuch perfbns as he fhall expresfly name. 2. A TESTAMENT, in the Roman law, is the legal declaration...his death, with the direcT: appointment of an HEIR. 3. In England, the difpofal of REAL Property by a laft Will is called a DEVISE; and the word TESTAMENT... | |
 | William Blackstone - 1771 - 274 páginas
...unlefs difabled by, i. Want of Difcretion. 2. Want of Freewill. 3. Criminal Conduct. 5TESTAMENTS are the legal Declaration of a Man's Intentions, which he wills to be performed after his Death. Thefe are, i. Written. 2. Nuncupative. 6. An EXECUTOR is he, to whom a Man by his... | |
 | William Blackstone - 1791 - 566 páginas
...eo, quod quis " pojt mirti'tn fiiam fieri velit' :" which may be thus rendered into Engliih, " t!ie legal declaration of a man's intentions) " which he wills to be performed after his death." It is call<1 Prcc. Ch i v. ^4. j /. 7. c. 5. « 4 Rep •:.: 2. 1'. WT". 614. i laft.... | |
 | William Blackstone - 1794 - 676 páginas
...fententia de eo, quod quis " pojl mortem fuam fieri velit ' :" which may be thus rendered . into Englifh, " the legal declaration of a man's intentions, " which he wills to be performed after his death." It is calledfententia to denote the circumfpedtion and prudence with [ 500 ] which... | |
 | William Blackstone - 1794 - 700 páginas
...ftnttntia dc to, quad quis " pojl mortem fuam fieri vflit ' :" which may be thus rendered into Englifti, " the legal declaration of a man's intentions, " which he wills to be performed after his death." It is called feutentia to denote the circumfpe£tion and prudence witii \_ 500 ]... | |
 | Colin Macfarquhar, George Gleig - 1797 - 432 páginas
...difabled by, i . Want of difcretion. 2. Want of free-wilL 3. Criminal conduct. (5.) Teßaments are the legal declaration of a man's intentions, which he wills to be performed after his death. Thefe are, i. Written. 2. Nuncupative. (6.) An executor is he, to whom a man by his... | |
 | Virginia. Supreme Court of Appeals, William Waller Hening, William Munford - 1809 - 678 páginas
...intentions. " Nonjus esse in tabulis" A will or testament is defined by Sir llrilliam Blackstone to be, " the legal declaration of a man's intentions, which " he wills to be pel-formed after his death." The form of the will is the mere effect of positive institutions. The... | |
 | Virginia. Supreme Court of Appeals, William Munford - 1812 - 692 páginas
...he intended them to be his wili, when reduced into form, and approved by him. But a will is only " the legal declaration of a man's intentions " which he wills to be performed after his y02 Bl.Com. death."(r/) A declaration, therefore, that certain words are hit wilt, and, that... | |
 | John Mason Good - 1819 - 742 páginas
...their etymology ; vvlunta/is nosing jtuta seatentia it to, yuo/i quit pott mortem tuam Jieri relit, ie the legal declaration of a man's intentions, which he wills to be performed after his death. It is called tententia, to denote the circumtpectton and prudence with which it is... | |
 | Albert Picket - 1820 - 314 páginas
...married woman is void. She may will away her personal chattels by her husband's assent. " 9. A will is a legal declaration of a man's intentions, which he wills to be performed after his death ; and it may be written, or nuncupative. The first beingr committed to writing, with... | |
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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. 
