 | Thomas Jarman - 1844 - 936 pages
...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... | |
 | Alabama. Supreme Court - 1881 - 768 pages
...inquiry is, as to the effect and operation the party making it intended it to have. A will is defined to be an instrument by which a person makes a disposition of property to take eftect after his death ; and as its operation is postponed during life, it is, in... | |
 | Alexander Mansfield Burrill - 1851 - 570 pages
...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 - 730 pages
...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 - 718 pages
...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 - 236 pages
...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 - 798 pages
...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 - 880 pages
...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 - 520 pages
...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... | |
 | 1886 - 652 pages
...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.... | |
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... 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. 
