 that if any person shall attest the execution of any will or "codicil, which shall be made after the 24th of June, 1752, to whom " any beneficial devise, legacy, estate, interest, gift, or appointment, of " or affecting any real or personal estate  Corpus Juris Civilis. Institutiones - Page 486edited by - 1812 - 714 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Jesse Addams - Ecclesiastical law - 1823 - 296 pages
...who shall be deemed legal witnesses, within the intent of the " said act;" and it goes on to enact, " that if any person shall attest *' the execution of any will or codicil, made after June 24, 1752, to *' whom any beneficial devise, legacy, estate, interest, gift, or appoint*'... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1827 - 932 pages
...arisen, who are to be deemed legal witnesses, within the intent of the said act ;" and then it enacts, "that, if any person shall attest the execution of...will or codicil which shall be made after the 24th June 1752, to whom any beneficial devise, legacy, estate, gift, or appointment of or affecting any... | |
 | William Selwyn - Nisi prius - 1827 - 834 pages
...Dowsing, the interference of the legislature was deemed necessary; and by stat. 2.5 G. 2. c. 6. it was enacted, " that if any person shall attest the execution of any will or codicil, to whom any beneficial devise, legacy, estate, interest, gift, or appointment, of or affecting any... | |
 | Great Britain. Courts, Sir William Blackstone - Law reports, digests, etc - 1828 - 594 pages
...compromised by the parties; but gave occasion to stat. 25 G. 2, c. 6(0). (o) By which it is provided, s. 1, that if any person shall attest the execution of any will or codicil (to whom any beneficial devise, legacy, estate, interest, gift, or appointment affecting any real or... | |
 | Great Britain. Court of Chancery, James Russell - Court rules - 1830 - 696 pages
...Sugden and Mr. Phittimore contended, that the legacy was void. The act, they said, declares, (b) " that, if any person shall attest the execution of any will or codicil, which shall be made after die 24th day of June 1752, to whom any beneficial devise, legacy, estate, interest, gift or appointment... | |
 | Great Britain. Court of Chancery, James Russell - Court rules - 1830 - 684 pages
...such a will, who were interested to support the will. When this statute, therefore, proceeds to enact, "that, if any person shall attest the execution of any will or codicil, who shall have a gift by the will or codicil, such gift shall be void," it is a reasonable construction... | |
 | Great Britain. Court of King's Bench, James Manning, Archer Ryland - Law reports, digests, etc - 1831 - 816 pages
...leave that part of your case.] It will be contended that there is a conveyance of vides, (sec. 2,)" that if any person shall attest the execution of any will or codicil to whom any beneficial devise, legacy, estate, interest, gift or appointment, of or affecting any real... | |
 | Great Britain. Courts - Divorce - 1831 - 564 pages
...who shall be deemed legal witnesses, within the intent of the said act;" and it goes on to enact, " that if any person shall attest the execution of any will or codicil, made after June %4, 1752, to whom any beneficial devise, legacy, estate, interest, gift, or appointment,... | |
 | Henry Roscoe - Evidence (Law) - 1831 - 788 pages
...707. 3 Stark. Ev. 1694. Doe v. Wolley, 8 B. and C. «2. Witnesses.] By stat. 25 Geo. II. c. 6, s. 1, if any person shall attest the execution of any will or codicil, to whom any beneficial devise, legacy, estate, interest, gift, or appointment of, or affecting any... | |
 | Law - 1833 - 538 pages
...Duining, Str. 1253. That decision gave rise to 25 G. 2. c. (> ; by §§ I, 2, and 6, of which statute, it is enacted, that if any person shall attest the execution of a will or codicil, to whom any interest, gift, &c. shall be thereby given, such interest, gift, &c.... | |
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