Argument Before the Surrogate of New York, Nov. 1857, in the Matter of the Probate of Henry Parish's Will, on the Subject of Implied Revocation of a Will1857 - 59 pages |
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Page 11 - No will in writing, except in the cases hereinafter mentioned,, nor any part thereof, shall be revoked, or altered, otherwise than by some other will in writing, or some other writing of the testator, declaring such revocation or alteration, and executed with the same formalities with which the will itself was required by law to be executed...
Page 12 - ... no devise in writing of lands, tenements or hereditaments, or any clause thereof, shall be revocable, otherwise than by some other will or codicil in writing, or other writing declaring the same...
Page 13 - That no will in writing concerning any goods or chattels, or personal estate, shall be repealed, nor shall any clause, devise or bequest therein, be altered or changed by any words, or will by word of mouth only, except the same be in the life of the testator committed to writing, and after the writing thereof read unto the testator, and allowed by him, and proved to be so done by three witnesses at the least.
Page 13 - Testamenta rumpiuntur agnatione posthumi ;c and there is not, perhaps, any code of civilized jurisprudence, in which this doctrine of implied revocation does not exist, and apply when the occurrence of new social relations and moral •duties raises a necessary presumption of a change of intention in the testator.
Page 11 - No will in writing, except in cases hereinafter mentioned, nor any part thereof, shall be revoked or altered otherwise than by some other will in writing or some other writing of the testator, declaring such revocation or alteration, and executed with the same formalities with which the will itself was required by law to be executed ; or unless such will be burnt, torn, canceled, obliterated or destroyed, with the intent and for the purpose of revoking the same, by the testator himself, or by another...
Page 21 - ... a tacit condition annexed to the will itself, at the time of making it, that the party does not then intend that it should take effect if there should be a total change in the situation of his family.
Page 19 - Lancashire,1 treats it as a principle of law, of which he suggests the foundation to be a tacit condition annexed to the will itself when made, that it should not take effect, if there should be a total change in the situation of the testator's family...
Page 26 - The revocation is upon the technical ground that the estate has been altered or newly modeled since the execution of the will. The rule has been carried so far that, if the testator suffered a recovery for the very purpose of confirming the will, it was still a revocation, for there was not a continuance of the same unaltered interest.
Page 20 - TR 49, it was held that marriage and the birth of a posthumous child amount to an implied revocation of a will of lands made before marriage ; but in that ciise the pregnancy was known to the husband.
Page 19 - I disclaim paying any attention to the declarations of the husband, because letting in that kind of evidence would be in direct opposition to the Statute of Frauds ;" that is to revoke a will of lands ; and Mr.