The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1838-01-16 00:00:00

THE NEW LAW OF WILLS.

The Principal Regulations contained in the present Act, which
took effect on the first day of 1838, are—
I. No will made by any person under the age of 21 years
shall be valid.—(Soc. 7.)
11. The regulations to be observed in making a will or codicil
are as follows—(Sec. 9. ):-
1. The will or codicil must be signed at the foot or end
thereof by the testator;
2. Or if he does not sign, by some other person, in his pre-
sence, and by his direction.
3. The signature must be made or acknowledged by the
testator, in the presence of two or more witnesses present
at the same time.
4. The witnesses must attest and subscribe the will or
'codicil in the presence of the testator.
111, Appointments by will, under a power, are made subject
to the above mentioned regulations.--(Sec. 10.)
IV. The testator's marriage is a revocation of his will (ex-
cept in certain eases of exercise of powers).—(Sec. 18.)
V. The revocation of a will or codicil may be—(Sec. 20.)
1. By a will or codicil executed as above-mentioned.
2. By a writing declaring an intention to revoke, and exe-
cuted like a will.
3. By the destroying of the will by the testator, or by some
person in his presence, and by his direction, with intent
to revoke.
VI. Alterations made in wills must be executed in like man-
ner as wills.—(Sec.2l,)
VII A will shall be constructed to speak from the death of
testator.--(Sec. 24.)
VIII Residuary devisees in wills will include estates, com-
prised in lapsed and void devises.—(Sec. 25.)
IX. A general devise of testator's land will include freehold,
cop)bold, and leasehold land.—(Sec. 26.)
X. A general devisee of testator's real or personal estate will
include estates over which he has a general power of appoint-
ment.—Sec. 27.)
Xl. A devisee without words of limitation will be construed
to pass a fee.—(Ses. 28.)
Below is a form of a Will of the most simple kind.—The words
included in brackets, under the present Act, add nothing to
the validity of the dispositions.
This is the last will of me, John Jones, of, &c. I devise [and
bequeath] all my [freehold, copyhold, and leasehold] messuages,
farms, lands, and other estates, in the parish of Anson, unto my
son James Jones [his heirs, executors, administrators, and
assigns, for ever], but as to estates vested in me upon trust or
by way of mortgage, subject to the equities affecting the same
respectively, 1 appoint my friend Robert Rudd sole executor
of this my will, hereby revoking ail other wills.—ln witness
whereof I have hereunto set my hand, this seventeenth day of
January, 1838. JOHN JONES.
Signed and declared by the said testator*
as and to be his last will, in the presence
of us, present at the same time, who, in
his presence [and in the presence of each
other], have hereunto set our names as k'
witnesses. EDWARD JAMES.
JOHN RICHARDS.
* This form of attestation is not required by the act.
A will may be revoked, without destroying the instrument,
thus :
I, John Jones, do, by this writing, declare my intention to
revoke my will, dated the seventeenth day of January last; and
I hereby revoke the same accordingly.—ln witness whereof
I have hereunto set my band, this twentieth day of August,
1838. JOHN JONES.
Signed by tne above-named John Jones,
in the presence of us, liresent at the same
time, who, in his presence [and in the pre-
sence of each other], have hereunto set our
names as witnesses.

JAMES NICHOLS.
WILLIAM WILSON.
A will being altered by interlineation, at the end of the will

words to (his effect may be added :
I, Jobn Jones having altered my will in the respective folios
and lines fiAlowing, folio 1, line 10, [and so on], do again here-
unto set my hand, declaring this, as so altered, to be my last
will, this seventeenth day of Nevember, 1838. _

JOHN JONES.
Resigned and redeclared by the above-
named John Jones, as and to be his last
will, as above altered, in the presence of
us, present at the same time, who, in his
presence [and in the presence of each
other], have hereunto set onr names as
witnesses. GEORGE ROBERTS.
THOMAS WILLIAMS.