 | New Jersey. Court of Chancery - Law reports, digests, etc - 1842 - 598 pages
...Was he capable of recollecting the property he was about to bequeath, the manner of distributing it, and the objects of his bounty ? To sum up the •whole...memory sufficiently sound to enable him to know and to understand the business in which he was engaged at the time when lie executed his will?" In the... | |
 | Jacob D. Wheeler - Common law - 1835 - 620 pages
...Hathorn v. King, of sound disposing mind and memory. The question, says Judge Washington, is this; were his mind and memory sufficiently sound to enable him to know and understand the business he was engaged in. If so, then he is competent to direct the distribution of his property by will,... | |
 | Indiana. Supreme Court, Horace E. Carter, Albert Gallatin Porter, Gordon Tanner, Benjamin Harrison, Michael Crawford Kerr, James Buckley Black, Augustus Newton Martin, Francis Marion Dice, John Worth Kern, John Lewis Griffiths, Sidney Romelee Moon, Charles Frederick Remy - Law reports, digests, etc - 1859 - 654 pages
...so prostrated, is capable of making a will, if, at the time he executes it, his mind and memory are sufficiently sound to enable him to know and understand the business in which he is engaged. 1 Jarm. on Wills, 50. But the complaint contains no averment that the testator was of unsound... | |
 | Thomas Nesbitt McCarter - Equity - 1867 - 612 pages
...Was he capable of recollecting the property he was about to bequeath, the manner of distributing it, and the objects of his bounty? To sum up the whole...memory sufficiently sound to enable him to know and to understand the business in which he was engaged at the time when he executed his will?" Great stress... | |
 | Franklin Chamberlin - Commercial law - 1869 - 1004 pages
...Was he capable of recollecting the property he was about to bequeath, the manner of distribnting it, and the objects of his bounty ? To sum up the whole in its most intelligible form : were his mind and memory sufficiently sound to enable him to understand... | |
 | John William Wallace, United States. Circuit Court (3rd Circuit) - Court rules - 1871 - 450 pages
...Was he capable of recollecting the property he was about to bequeath ; the manner of distributing it, and the objects of his bounty. To sum up the whole in the most simple and intelligent form: Were his mind and memory sufficiently sound to enable him to know and to understand... | |
 | Isaac Grant Thompson - Law reports, digests, etc - 1873 - 802 pages
...was he capable of recollecting the property he was about to bequeath, the manner of distributing it, and the objects of his bounty? To sum up the whole....memory sufficiently sound to enable him to know and to understand the business in which he was engaged at the time he executed his will?" This view of... | |
 | Richard Thomas Walkem - Executors and examinators - 1873 - 580 pages
...capable of recollecting '•'- the property he was about to bequeath ; the manner of distributing it ; and the objects of his bounty ? To sum up the whole...memory sufficiently sound to enable him to know and to understand the business in which he was engaged at the time he executed his will ?" (s) This view... | |
 | Law - 1920 - 516 pages
...Testamentary Capacity. — One possesses "testamentary capacity" whose mind and memory are sound enough to enable him to know and understand the business In which he is engaged when he executed a will, notwithstanding failing memory and mental and physical powers from... | |
 | Isaac Grant Thompson - Law reports, digests, etc - 1875 - 866 pages
...of testamentary capacity can be stated to the jury is, whether the testator's mind and memory were sufficiently sound to enable him to know and understand the business in which he waa engaged at the time he executed the will ; and In determining the question the competency of the... | |
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The question is not so much what was the degree of memory possessed by the testator ? as this : Had he a disposing memory ? was he capable of recollecting the property he was about to bequeath; the manner of distributing it; and the objects of his bounty?... 
