 | 1844 - عدد الصفحات: 530
...notwithstanding he may die in the lifetime of his father. The definition given by Mr. Jarman of a " WILL" is, " an instrument by which a person makes a disposition...nature ambulatory and revocable during his life." This is correct, but not sufficiently exact and comprehensive so as to comprise the cases which have... | |
 | Thomas Jarman - 1844 - عدد الصفحات: 936
...INSTRUMENT. A WILL is an instrument by which a person makes a Ambulatory .... ... nature of wills. disposition of his property to take effect after his decease, and which is in ite men nature ambulatory and revocable during his life. It is this ambulatory quality which forms... | |
 | Alexander Mansfield Burrill - 1851 - عدد الصفحات: 570
...in the civil law. See Testament, Testamentum. — An instrument in writing, executed in form of law, by which a person makes a disposition of his property, to take effect after his death. WIG WIT property, is sometimes called a testament, and when upon real estate, a devise ; but... | |
 | Sarah Josepha Buell Hale - 1857 - عدد الصفحات: 730
...gave the instructions. 4360. Wills. — A will is an instrument in writing, executed in form of law, by which a person makes a disposition of his property, to take effect after his death. 4361. A codicil is a supplement or addition to a will, and by which the will is altered, explained... | |
 | Illinois. Supreme Court - 1908 - عدد الصفحات: 718
...same. Pool v. Blackie, 53 111. 495. Mr. JUSTICE VICKERS delivered the opinion of the court: A will is an instrument by which a person makes a disposition of his property to take effect after his death. ( I Jarman on Wills, 26 ; Schouler on Wills, p. 1 ; 1 Redfield on the Law of Wills, — 4th... | |
 | William Andrews Holdsworth - 1882 - عدد الصفحات: 236
...will, touching what we would have done after our death." Or, if we prefer a more modern definition, it is "an instrument by which a person makes a disposition of his property to take effect after his death." The latter words of the sentence designate the fact which distinguishes a will from any other... | |
 | New York (State). Court of Appeals, George Franklin Comstock, Henry Rogers Selden, Francis Kernan, Erasmus Peshine Smith, Joel Tiffany, Edward Jordan Dimock, Samuel Hand, Hiram Edward Sickels, Louis J. Rezzemini, Edmund Hamilton Smith, Edwin Augustus Bedell, Alvah S. Newcomb, James Newton Fiero - 1884 - عدد الصفحات: 798
...It is true, as claimed by the learned counsel for the respondent, that a proper definition of a will is an instrument by which a person makes a disposition...of his property to take effect after his decease. But every word contained in the instrument may not relate to or bear upon the disposition of property.... | |
 | Isaac Grant Thompson - 1884 - عدد الصفحات: 880
...It is true, as claimed by the learned counsel for the respondent, that a proper definition of a will is an instrument by which a person makes a disposition...of his property to take effect after his decease. But every word contained in the instrument may not relate to or bear upon the disposition of property.... | |
 | 1884 - عدد الصفحات: 520
...Revised Statutes [2 R. 8. 63, § 40] of this state. [*, •] Although a proper definition of a will is an instrument by which a person makes a disposition of his property to take effect after bis decease, every word contained in the instrument may not relate to or bear upon the disposition... | |
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a will is an instrument by which a person makes a disposition of. his property to take effect after his decease, and which is, in its own nature, ambulatory and revocable during his life. 
