 | 1821 - 328 páginas
...unless disabled by, 1. want of discretion; 2. want of freewill ; 3. criminal conduct. v. Testaments are the legal declaration of a man's intentions, which he wills to be performed after his death : these are, 1. written ; 2. nuncupative. VI. An executor is he, to whom a man by his... | |
 | sir William Blackstone - 1825 - 626 páginas
...sententia de eo, quod qiris " post mortem sunmJieri velit ' : " which may be thus rendered into English, " the legal declaration of a man's intentions, " which he wills to be performed after his death." It is called sententia, to denote the circumspection and prudence with [ 500 which... | |
 | Virginia. General Court, William Brockenbrough - 1826 - 722 páginas
...a position, that a Will being, in the language of Judge Black&.tone, or rather of the Civilians, " the legal declaration of a man's intentions, which he wills to be performed after his death," ought to leave no reasonable doubt of its true character. Justice and common sense... | |
 | 1830 - 442 páginas
...Toller, whom he cites, justify this definition. The former gives it from the Digest in these words, 'the legal declaration of a man's intentions which he wills to be performed after his death :' Toller : 'which he directs to be performed after his death.' In the next sentence... | |
 | Jean Louis de Lolme, Archibald John Stephens - 1838 - 674 páginas
...On the failure of the direct line, the right of succession must diverge to the collateral branches.! A testament, in the Roman law, is the legal declaration...his death, with the direct appointment of an heir". The power of making private testaments was not allowed among the Romans till the laws of the Twelve... | |
 | Patrick Brady Leigh - 1838 - 774 páginas
...statute of wills. OF THE NATURE AND GENERAL REQUISITES OP A WILL. A WILL or testament is defined to be the legal declaration of a man's intentions, which he wills to be performed after his death." It may relate either to real or to personal property; in the former case it is denominated... | |
 | Patrick Brady Leigh - 1838 - 928 páginas
...1632 SECTION I. OP THE NATURE AND GENERAL REQUISITES OF A WILL. A WILL or testament is defined to be the legal declaration of a man's intentions, which he wills to be performed after his death a. It may relate either to real or to personal property; in the former case it is denominated... | |
 | William Blackstone - 1838 - 910 páginas
...disabled by, I. Want of discretion. II. Want of free will. III. Criminal conduct 4Э&-7 5. Testaments are the legal declaration of a man's intentions, which he wills to be performed after his death. These aie, I. Written. II. Nuncupative 499-500 6. An executor is he, to whom a man... | |
 | Henry John Stephen - 1841 - 626 páginas
...\^tentia, de eo quod quis post mortem suam fieri relit (f) ; which may be thus rendered into English, the legal declaration of a man's intentions, which he wills to be performed after his death. It is called sententia, to denote the circumspection and prudence with which it is... | |
 | James Lord - 1844 - 306 páginas
...others, whilst in cases of goods and chattels there must be the assent of the executor.f A will, then, is the legal declaration of a man's intentions, which he wills to be performed after his death. "With us in England, till modern times, a man could only dispose of one-third of his... | |
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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. 
