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Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia (Volume 10); (General Term, ) at the April and September Terms of 1873 [To the September Term, 1879, Inclusive]

Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia (Volume 10); (General Term, ) at the April and September Terms of 1873 [To the September Term, 1879, Inclusive]


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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1881. Excerpt: ... Power v. Davis. nesses." (See, also, Walker v. Walker, 1 Mer., 503; Harris v. Bedford, 2 Philp, 177.) The American cases present an instance precisely like this in Barnes v. Syester, 14 Md., 507, where the deceased left a will which he had signed, and there was an attestation clause without being subscribed by any witness. The court remark: "It is well settled that an instrument like the present is to be classed among unfinished testaments, on account of the attestation clause without witnesses, even where the party has signed it; that the presumption of law is against such paper, and, though a slight presumption, must be rebutted by extrinsic circumstances in order to its being pronounced for." Other cases, though not precisely like this, seem to adopt the same view of the law; as, in Walter v. Waller, 1 Gratt., 454, where the deceased made a statement to an attorney in regard to his will, which was takeu down from his lips and read over to him at the time, and he, approving of it, directed the attorney to copy it and bring it to him for execution. He lived four days and expressed anxiety to have the will, saying, when he had signed it his affairs would be finished, but he died before it came. The leading opinion in the case discusses the proposition, that as the will had been reduced to writing during the life-time of the testator, by his direction, whether it was not well executed for some purposes, and the court unanimously held that it was not. But on the subject of the attestation which was found at the foot of the paper, Cabell, J., observes, in a separate opinion: "It is manifest from the paper itself that he (the deceased) intended something further to be done; that it should be signed and acknowledged in the presence of witnesses. He did not, th...


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9781150242342
  • Publisher: General Books
  • Publisher Imprint: General Books
  • Height: 246 mm
  • No of Pages: 218
  • Spine Width: 12 mm
  • Width: 189 mm
  • ISBN-10: 1150242345
  • Publisher Date: 01 Jan 2012
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Weight: 399 gr


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