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The Wills (Soldiers and Sailors) Act 1918 (7 & 8 Geo. 5. c. 58) clarifies and extends the Wills Act 1837. Section 1 [13] makes if clear that a soldier on active service or sailor at sea, can make, and always could have made, a valid will, even though under 18 years of age. Section 2 extends the provision to sailors not at sea but who are ...
Wills Act is a stock short title used in Australia, Malaysia, New Zealand, South Africa, and the United Kingdom for legislation relating to wills. List.
The Statute of Wills or Wills Act 1540 (32 Hen. 8.c. 1) was an Act of the Parliament of England.It made it possible, for the first time in post-Conquest English history, for landholders to determine who would inherit their land upon their death by permitting devise by will.
An Act for clearing and removing some Doubts which may arise in an Act of Parliament, intituled, "An Act for the vesting several Manors, Lands, and Rents, in the Counties of Lincolne, Berks, and Devon, in Trustees, to be sold, for the buying other Manors and Lands, to be settled for the same or the like Uses as those to be sold are now settled ...
To alleviate problems of proving simultaneous death, many states in the United States have enacted the Uniform Simultaneous Death Act, which provides that each spouse will be treated as though they predeceased the other if they die within 120 hours of one another, unless a specific clause in the will deals with this particular possibility.
The right of bequest in these places was not assimilated to the general law until, for York, the passing of the Wills Act 1692 (4 Will. & Mar. c. 2) for the Province of York (other than the City of York) and the Wills Act 1703 (2 & 3 Ann. c. 5), for the City of York; for Wales by the Wills Act 1695 (7 & 8 Will. 3. c.
It has been suggested that the dehors theory is based on detective drafting of the Wills Act. In particular, whilst the term "will" is commonly used to refer to a specific document, the Wills Act is designed to cover almost all documents except rules on public trust and secret trust that are to take effect after the testator's death.
[2] Under the Act, if a person loses their right to inheritance through the forfeiture rule, or through disclaiming it, that person is to be treated (for purposes of determining inheritance) as having died immediately prior to the testator or the intestate. The Act amends the Administration of Estates Act 1925 and Wills Act 1837 accordingly.