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2. Uniform Probate Code - Wikipedia

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   v. t. e. The Uniform Probate Code (commonly abbreviated UPC) is a uniform act drafted by National Conference of Commissioners on Uniform State Laws (NCCUSL) governing inheritance and the decedents' estates in the United States. The primary purposes of the act were to streamline the probate process and to standardize and modernize the various ...

3. List of people executed in Virginia - Wikipedia

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   List of people executed in Virginia. Between 1982 and 2017, a total of 113 people were executed by the Commonwealth of Virginia. All were convicted of capital murder; all but one were male. Between 1982 and 1990, all executions were carried out at the Virginia State Penitentiary in Richmond. After the prison closed in 1991, all subsequent ...

4. Capital punishment in Virginia - Wikipedia

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   Capital punishment was abolished in Virginia on March 24, 2021, when Governor Ralph Northam signed a bill into law. The law took effect on July 1, 2021. Virginia is the 23rd state to abolish the death penalty, and the first southern state in United States history to do so. [1][2] The first execution in what would become the United States was ...

5. Testamentary capacity - Wikipedia

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   Property. Criminal law. Evidence. v. t. e. In the common law tradition, testamentary capacity is the legal term of art used to describe a person's legal and mental ability to make or alter a valid will. This concept has also been called sound mind and memory or disposing mind and memory.

6. Legal history of wills - Wikipedia

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   The earliest on the statute roll is an act of Henry III, the Widow's Bequest of Corn on Her Land Act 1235 ( 20 Hen. 3. c. 2), enabling a widow to bequeath the crops of her lands. Before the Wills Act 1837 uniformity in the law had been urgently recommended by the Real Property Commissioners in 1833.

7. Will and testament - Wikipedia

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   v. t. e. A will and testament is a legal document that expresses a person's (testator) wishes as to how their property (estate) is to be distributed after their death and as to which person (executor) is to manage the property until its final distribution. For the distribution (devolution) of property not determined by a will, see inheritance ...