 | Virginia. General Court, William Brockenbrough - Courts - 1826 - 722 pages
...writing (except nuncupative) although it may not be signed by the Testator. Blackstone defines it to be, "the legal declaration of a man's intention which he wills to be performed after his death:" and all that is requisite to make it such legal declaration is, that it should appear that his will, touching... | |
 | Ohio. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1913 - 674 pages
...the supreme court of the United States adopted Blackstone's definition, which declares a will to be "the legal declaration of a man's intention which he wills to be performed after his death." There is in that definiOpinion of the Court. tion no specific mention of a devolution of property.... | |
 | Henry Foulks Lynch - Law - 1874 - 460 pages
...pleases by any act during the coverture. (See WILLS OF REAL AND PERSONAL ESTATE. What is a A will is the legal declaration of a man's intention?, which he wills to be performed after his death. Who may make a will, and what persons are incapable of making a will ? By the Wills Act it is enacted... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1894 - 1266 pages
...testamentary disposition. It Is emphatically the will of the person who makes it, and Is defined to be 'the legal declaration of a man's Intention, which he wills to be performed after his death.' These Intentions are to be collected from his words, and ought to be carried into effect If they be... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1890 - 1182 pages
...Or. Б90) (Supretne Court of Oregon. May 14, 1889.) CONSTRUCTION OF WILLS. 1. A will is defined to be the legal declaration of a man's intention, which he wills to be performed after his death. 2. In construing wills the rule is that the intention must govern, provided it be consistent with law;... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1899 - 1204 pages
...death." 1 Redf. Wills, 5. approving Cover v. Stem, 67 Md. 449, 10 At!. 231. "A will may be defined as the legal declaration of a man's intention, which he wills to be performed after his death, touching either the disposition of his property. the guardianship of his children, or the administration... | |
 | Abraham Clark Freeman - Law reports, digests, etc - 1891 - 1034 pages
...would, however, violate the fundamental principle that a will, in order that it may be regarded as the legal declaration of a man's intention which he wills to be performed after his death, must be in writing, signed and witnessed, and that the intention of the testator is always to be deduced... | |
 | Ohio. Courts - Law reports, digests, etc - 1898 - 612 pages
...never reached this side of the Atlantic. Page 2, Beach on wills. Anderson in his Law Dictionar\\ says : "The legal declaration of a man's intention which he wills to be performed after his death, is called a will. It expresses the wiil of the maker as to the direction his property should take.... | |
 | Law - 1895 - 360 pages
...testamentary disposition. It is emphatically the will of the person who makes it, and it is defined to be the legal declaration of a man's intention which he wills to be performed after his death." The court further says, "the thing devised is certain and specific, section, township and range' are... | |
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A will is the legal declaration of a man's intention which he wills to be performed after his death. 
