5. If the child has refused sustenance to a parent, having means to afford it.

6. If the child has neglected to take care of a parent become insane.

7. If the child refused to ransom a parent when detained in captivity.

8. If the child used any act of violence or coercion to hinder a parent from making a will.

9. If the child has refused to become security for a parent, having the means, in order to take him out of prison.

10. If a son or daughter, being a minor, marries without the consent of his or her parents.-Article 1621.

The ascendants may disinherit their legitimate descendants, coming to their succession, for the first nine causes expressed in the preceding article, when the acts of ingratitude there mentioned have been committed towards them, instead of towards their parents; but they can not disinherit their descendants for the last cause.— Article 1622.

Legitimate children, dying without issue, and leaving a parent, can not disinherit him or her, unless for the seven following causes, to-wit:

1. If the parent has accused the child of a capital crime, except, however, the crime of high treason;

2. If the parent has attempted to take the child's life; 3. If the parent has, by any violence or force, hindered the child from making a will;

4. If the parent has refused sustenance to the child in necessity, having the means of affording it;

5. If the parent has neglected to take care of the child while in a state of insanity;

6. If the parent has neglected to ransom the child when in captivity;

7. If the father or mother has attempted the life, the one of the other, in which case the child or descendant making a will may disinherit the one who has attempted the life of the other.-Article 1623.

The testator must express in the will for what reasons he disinherited his forced heirs or any of them, and the other heirs of the testator are moreover obliged to prove the facts on which the disinherison is founded; otherwise it is null.-Article 1624.

No. 21-Maine.

[REVISED STATUTES, 1916, CHAPTER 79.]

A person of sound mind and of the age of twenty-one years, may dispose of his real and personal estate by will, in writing, signed by him, or by some person for him at his request, and subscribed in his presence by three credible attesting witnesses, not beneficially interested under the will.-Section 1.

Subsequent incompetency of witnesses will not prevent probate.-Section 2.

Will may be revoked by being destroyed, altered or intentionally burnt, cancelled, torn or obliterated, or by a subsequent will, codicil or writing, executed as a will is required to be, or revoked by operation of law from subsequent changes in the condition and circumstances of the maker.-Section 3.

After-acquired property passes by a will where such intention appears.-Section 5.

Where property is taken from a beneficiary under execution or order of sale of court to pay debts of the estate, other beneficiaries must contribute to his loss,

except specific legatees, and except where the testator has required an application of the estate for that purpose different from the foregoing.-Sections 6, 7.

Posthumous child takes his share of the estate as if no will had been made.-Section 8.

A child, or the issue of a deceased child, having no devise in the will, takes as if no will had been made, unless it appears that the omission was intentional, or that the child or issue had a due proportion of the estate during the life of the testator.-Section 9.

Where a beneficiary who is a relative of the testator dies before the testator, leaving lineal descendants, they take in his place.-Section 10.

A devise of land conveys all the estate therein of the testator unless it appears from the will a lesser estate was intended.-Section 16.

A nuncupative will must be made during the last sickness of the testator, at his home or at the place where he resided ten days before making it, unless he was suddenly taken sick from home and died before returning to it. But a soldier in actual service or a mariner at sea may dispose of his personal estate and wages without regard to the foregoing.-Section 18.

No testimony can be received to prove any testamentary words as a nuncupative will after the lapse of six months from the time when they were spoken, unless the words or the substance of them was reduced to writing six days after they were spoken.-Section 19.

No nuncupative will is effectual to dispose of property exceeding $100.00, unless proved by the oath of three witnesses who were present at the making of it, and were requested by the testator to bear witness that such was his will.-Section 20.

Any will executed in another state or country according to the laws thereof, may be presented for probate in this state, as in case of wills executed within this state.Chapter 68, section 13.

A will proved and allowed in another state may be allowed and recorded in this state by producing a copy of the will and the probate thereof, duly authenticated, and then has the same force as if originally proved and allowed in the same court in the usual manner.-Chapter 68, sections 14 and 15.

No. 22-Maryland.

[BAGBY'S ANNotated Code, 1911, ART. 93.]

All property, except estates tail, may be disposed of by will.-Section 319.

No will may create a perpetuity.-Section 320.

The rule against perpetuities does not apply to bequests, devises or limitations intended to transfer property from a corporation incorporated for charitable or educational purposes, to an individual or another corporation on a contingency.-Section 321.

A person executing a will must be of sound and disposing mind. To make a will of real property the testator must be of twenty-one years of age, or a testatrix of the age of eighteen years.-Section 322.

Wills must be in writing, signed by the maker or by some other person in his presence and by his express direction, and attested and subscribed in his presence by two or more credible witnesses.-Section 323.

Wills are revoked by some other will or codici in writing, or another writing declaring the same, or by burning, cancelling, tearing or obliterating.-Section 324.

When in a will or deed executed after May 31, 1912, a remainder in realty or personalty is limited, mediately

or immediately to the heirs or heirs of the body of the person to whom a life estate is given, the persons who on the termination of the life estate are then the heirs or heirs of the body of the life tenant, take as purchasers by reason of the contingent remainder limited to them.Section 325a, enacted stats. 1912, ch. 144, abolishing the Rule in Shelley's Case.

In any devise or bequest of real or personal estate, the words "die without issue" or "die without leaving issue," or any other words which may import either a want or failure of issue of any person in his lifetime, or at the time of his death, or an indefinite failure of his issue, shall be construed to mean a want or failure of issue in the lifetime, or at the time of the death of such person, and not an indefinite failure of his issue, unless a contrary intention shall appear by the will.-Section 332.

No nuncupative will is valid, but a soldier in actual military service, or a mariner at sea may dispose of his movables, wages and personal estate by a verbal will, made before witnesses.-Section 333.

A will executed outside of this state is valid within the state, if executed according to the forms required by the law of the place where the same was made, or by the law of the place where the testator was domiciled when the same was made, or according to the forms required by the law of Maryland, provided the will be in writing and subscribed by the testator; and if testator was formerly domiciled in Maryland, his will is construed according to the laws of that state unless the will declare to the contrary.-Section 327 as amended 1914, ch. 238, and Section 334.

A wife may by will give all or part of her estate to her