 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.  Hindoo law - Page 6by John Cochrane - 1872Full view - About this book
 | British prose literature - 1821 - 328 pages
...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 will commits... | |
 | sir William Blackstone - Law - 1825 - 626 pages
...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 it is supposed to... | |
 | Virginia. General Court, William Brockenbrough - Courts - 1826 - 722 pages
...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 point to the propriety... | |
 | Law - 1830 - 442 pages
...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 but one Mr. Blair... | |
 | Patrick Brady Leigh - Nisi prius - 1838 - 774 pages
...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 a devise.... | |
 | Patrick Brady Leigh - Nisi prius - 1838 - 928 pages
...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 a devise.... | |
 | William Blackstone - Great Britain - 1838 - 910 pages
...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 by hi« will commits... | |
 | Jean Louis de Lolme, Archibald John Stephens - Constitutional history - 1838 - 674 pages
...the right of succession must diverge to the collateral branches.! A testament, in the Roman law, is the legal declaration of a man's intentions, which he wills to be performed upon the event of his death, with the direct appointment of an heir". The power of making private testaments... | |
 | Henry John Stephen - English law - 1841 - 626 pages
...\^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 supposed to be made;... | |
 | James Lord - Conveyancing - 1844 - 306 pages
...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 moveables from... | |
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