 | James Kent - 1826-1830 - 1830 - 556 pages
...revocation must be by another instrument executed in the same manner ; or else by burning, canceling, tearing, or obliterating the same by the testator himself, or in his presence, and by his direction. This is the language of the English statute of frauds, and of the statute law in CTery part... | |
 | New Jersey. Court of Chancery - Law reports, digests, etc - 1911 - 704 pages
...al., 11 NJ Eq. (1 Buck.} 21 4, a will, or any devise or bequest in it, can be revoked by canceling the same by the testator himself, or in his presence, and by his direction or consent, and that the canceling can be done with a lead pencil 'as effectively as if done... | |
 | Henry Roscoe - Evidence (Law) - 1832 - 660 pages
...Revocation of will by cancelling, fyc.] By the same section of the statute a will may be revoked " by burning, cancelling, tearing, or obliterating the...his presence, and by his directions and consent.'' The act must be done with an intention of revoking, and though the burning or tearing be partial or... | |
 | Thomas Coventry - Conveyancing - 1832 - 390 pages
...effect e.' And moreover ' that no devise in writing of any lands, tenements, or hereditaments shall be revocable, otherwise than by some other will or codicil in writing, signed in the presence of three or four witnesses declaring the same, or by burning, cancelling, tearing,... | |
 | Pennsylvania. Laws, statutes, etc - Law - 1833 - 582 pages
...real esand codicils, tate shall be repealed, nor shall any devise or direction therein be altered, otherwise than by (some other will or codicil in writing, or other writing declaring the same executed, and proved in the same manner as is hereinbefore provided, or by burning, cancelling, or... | |
 | Connecticut - Law - 1835 - 646 pages
...and testament. Actual revoca- SECT. 6. No devise of real estate shall be revoked, n' otherwise than by burning, cancelling, tearing, or obliterating the...same, by the testator himself, or in his presence, by his direction and consent ; or by some other will or codicil in writing, declaring the same, signed... | |
 | William Blackstone - Law - 1836 - 852 pages
...Jac. ScWalk. 498.) -ED.] (10) The 6th section of the statute enacts, that no devise of lands shall he revocable otherwise than by some other will or codicil...the testator himself, or in his presence and by his direction and consent; but all devises and bequests of lands and tenements shall continue in force,... | |
 | Great Britain - Law - 1836 - 1022 pages
...hereditaments, nor any clause thereof, shall at any time after the said four and twentieth day of June be revocable, otherwise than by some other will or codicil in writing or other wrilini declaring the same, or by burning cancelling tearing or obliterating ('Ji) the same by the... | |
 | Charles Watkins, Henry Hopley White - Conveyancing - 1838 - 596 pages
...shall be revocable otherwise than by some other will or codicil, or by burning, tearing, cancelling, or obliterating the same by the testator himself,...in his presence and by his directions and consent, s. 6. [The two preceding sections, 5 and 6, are now revoked by the recent statute 1 Viet. c. 26. *.... | |
 | William Burge - Comparative law - 1838 - 916 pages
...Statute of Frauds, no devise in writing of lands, tenements, or hereditaments, nor any clause thereof, is revocable, otherwise than by some other will or codicil in writing, or other writing declaring the same ; but all devises and bequests of lands and tenements remain and continue in force, unless the same... | |
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And moreover, no devise in writing of land, tenements or hereditaments, nor any clause thereof, shall at any time after the said four and twentieth day of June be revocable, otherwise than by some other will or codicil in writing or other writing declaring... 
