 ... by the burning, tearing, or otherwise destroying the same by the testator, or by some person in his presence and by his direction, with the intention of revoking the same.  Michigan Reports: Cases Decided in the Supreme Court of Michigan - Page 22by Michigan. Supreme Court, Randolph Manning, George C. Gibbs, Thomas McIntyre Cooley, Elijah W. Meddaugh, William Jennison, Hovey K. Clarke, James M. Reasoner, Hoyt Post, Henry Allen Chaney, William Dudley Fuller, John Adams Brooks, Marquis B. Eaton, Herschel Bouton Lazell, Richard W. Cooper - 1910Full view - About this book
 | John Duer, New York (State). Superior Court (New York) - Law reports, digests, etc - 1856 - 754 pages
...hereinbefore required to be executed, or by the burning, tearing, or otherwise destroying the same by the testator, or by some person in his presence and by his dictation, with the intention to revoke the same." (§ 20.) It is evident, therefore, from a comparison... | |
 | Sir James Parker Deane, Maurice Charles Merttins Swabey - Divorce - 1858 - 390 pages
...as to revocation were not observed, " or by the burning, tearing, or otherwise destroying the same by the testator, or by some person in his presence and by his direction, with the intention of revoking the same," and the codicil not legally revoked. The only... | |
 | Kansas - Session laws - 1859 - 726 pages
...All other wills, to be valid, must be in writing, wit- i« writing, ncssed by two competent witnesses and signed by the testator, or by some person in his presence and by his express direction. SEC. 6. No subscribing witness to any will can derive any vitmu. benefit therefrom, unless there be... | |
 | Nova Scotia - Law - 1859 - 846 pages
...is hereinbefore required to be executed, or by the burning, tearing or otherwise destroying the same by the testator, or by some person in his presence and by his direction, with the » intention of revoking the same. 16. No cancelling by drawing lines across... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1926 - 860 pages
...hereinbefore required to be executed, or by the burning, tearing, or otherwise destroying the same by the testator or by some person in his presence and by his direction, with the intention of revoking the same." None of those events have happened in the... | |
 | Canada - Law - 1875 - 534 pages
...hereinbefore required to be executed, or by the burning, tearing or otherwise destroying the same, by the testator, or by some person in his presence and by his direction with the intention of revoking the same. 46. Every will shall be construed with reference... | |
 | Illinois. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1906 - 712 pages
...The requisites of a valid will of a person competent to make a will are, that it shall be reduced to writing and signed by the testator or by some person in his presence and by his direction, and attested in the presence of the testator by two or more credible witnesses. 5. SAME—when... | |
 | 1923 - 1642 pages
...unless by burning, tearing, canceling, or obliterating the same, with the intention of revoking it, * F !1[ ~%`o# W Ȳ3 O V D" A { R h wW E his direction ; or by some other will or codicil in writing, executed as prescribed in this article;... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1924 - 1626 pages
...shall be prevented by the extremity of his last sickness, shall be signed by him at the end thereof, or by some person in his presence and by his express direction." The letter now being considered was all in the handwriting of decedent, including the word "Father,"... | |
 | Law - 1847 - 616 pages
...is thereinbefore required to be executed, or by burning, tearing, or otherwise destroying the same by the testator, or by some person in his presence and by his direction, with the intention of revoking the same. When a subsequent will revokes a former one.... | |
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