wise than by the re-execution thereof, or by a codicil. -Section 22.

No conveyance or other act subsequent to the execution will prevent the operation of the will with respect to such estate as the testator has power to dispose of at the time of his death.-Section 23.

A will speaks from the death of the testator, unless the contrary intention appears, and the will of a married woman, made during coverture, need not be re-executed or republished after the death of her husband.-Section 24.

A testamentary gift to a testator's child does not lapse by the death of such child in the lifetime of the testator, if such child has issue living who survive the testator.— Section 32.

No. 69-Ontario.

[STATUTE OF 10 EDW. VII, CHAP. 57; REVISED STATUTES, 1914, CHAP. 120.] Every person may devise all real property and personal property to which he may be entitled at the time of his death, and which if not so devised, bequeathed or disposed of, would devolve upon his heirs or executors or administrators, including estates pur autre vie, contingent interests, rights of entry, and property acquired after the execution of the will.-Section 9.

A widow may bequeath the crop of her ground as well of her dower as of other her real estate.-Section 10.

A will made by any person under the age of twenty-one years is invalid.-Section 11.

A will must be in writing, signed at the foot thereof by the testator or by some other person in his presence and by his direction, and such signature shall be made or acknowledged by the testator, in the presence of two or

more witnesses present at the same time. Such witnesses shall attest and subscribe the will in the presence of the testator. Every will, so far as regards the position of the signature of the testator, is valid if the signature is so placed at, or after, or following, or under or beside or opposite the end of the will, where it is apparent on the face of the will that the testator intended to give effect by such signature to the writing signed as his will.-Section 12.

An appointment by will, in the exercise of a power, must be executed in the same manner as a will.-Section 13.

A soldier in actual military service, or a mariner or seaman being at sea, may dispose of his personal estate as at the common law.-Section 14.

A will executed in the manner stated is valid without other publication.-Section 15.

The incompetency of a witness does not affect the validity of the will.-Section 16.

A gift to a subscribing witness, or her husband or his wife, is void, but witness may prove execution of the will. -Section 17.

A creditor is a competent witness, and also the husband or wife of a creditor although debt is charged upon the estate.-Section 18.

An executor is a competent witness.-Section 19.

Every will made out of Ontario by a British subject, whatever his domicile, shall be regarded as well executed if made according to the forms required by the law of the place where the same was made, the place where such person was domiciled when the same was made, or by the law then in force in that part of His Majesty's dominion where he had his domicile of origin. Every

will made in Ontario by a British subject may be regarded, as to personal estate, to be well executed if executed according to the forms required by the law of Ontario, whatever the domicile of the testator. Subsequent change of domicile will not revoke or invalidate a will.-Section 20.

A will is revoked by the marriage of the testator, except where it is declared in the will that the same is made in contemplation of such marriage, or where the wife or husband elects to take under the will, or where it is made in the exercise of a power of appointment.-Section 21.

No will shall be revoked by any presumption of intention because of alteration of circumstances.-Section 22.

A will is revoked by another will or writing, executed after the manner of a will, or by burning, tearing or otherwise destroying.-Section 23.

An obliteration, interlineation or other alteration to have effect, if made after the execution of the will, must be executed in the same manner as a will, but the will is deemed duly executed with such alteration as part thereof, if the signature of the testator and the subscription of the witnesses are made in the margin or some other part of the will opposite or near to such alteration, or at the foot or end or opposite to a memorandum referring to such alteration.-Section 24.

No will is revived, except by re-execution, or a codicil showing an intention to revive.-Section 25.

No conveyance or other act done subsequently to the execution of a will, except an act of revocation as aforesaid, prevents its operation.-Section 26.

A will speaks from the death of the testator, unless a contrary intention appears, and the will of a married

woman, executed during coverture, need not be republished after the death of her husband.-Section 27.

A gift not determinable at death of beneficiary, to a child or other issue of testator who dies before the testator, leaving issue surviving the testator, does not lapse, but takes effect as if the death of such child had happened immediately after the death of the testator.Section 37. A large portion of the above act is copied from the statute of 1 Victoria, ch. 26.

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[CIVIL CODE, BEAUCHAMP, 1904.]

Every person of full age (twenty-one years), and of sound intellect, may dispose of property by will.-Section 831.

A married woman may dispose of property by will.Section 832.

Minors, whether emancipated or not, can not bequeath any part of their property.-Section 833.

Imbeciles, insane or mad persons can not dispose of property by will.-Section 834.

Corporations and persons in mortmain can only receive by will such property as they may legally possess. -Section 836.

Two or more persons can not make a will by one and the same act, whether in favor of third persons or in favor of one another.-Section 841.

Wills may be made (1) in notarial or authentic form, (2) in the form required for holograph wills, (3) in writing and in the presence of witnesses, in the form derived from the laws of England.-Section 842.

Wills in notarial form are received before two notaries, or before a notary and two witnesses; the testa

tor, in their presence and with them signs the will or declares that he can not do so, after it has been read to him by one of the notaries, in the presence of the other, or by the notary in the presence of the witnesses. Mention is made in the will of the observance of the formalities.-Section 843.

Authentic wills must be made as originals remaining with the notary.

The witnesses must be named and described in the will. They must be of the male sex, of full age, and must not be civilly dead, nor sentenced to an infamous punishment. (Aliens may serve as witnesses.) The clerks and servants of the notaries can not serve.

The date and place of its execution must be stated in the will.-Section 844.

A will can not be executed before notaries who are related or allied to the testator or to each other, in the direct line, or in the degree of brothers, uncles, or nephews. The witnesses, however, may be related or allied to the testator, to the notary, or to one another.Section 845.

Legacies made in favor of the notaries or witnesses, or to the wife of any such notary or witness, or to any relation of such notary or witness in the first degree, are void, but do not annul the other provisions of the will.

Testamentary executors who are neither benefited nor compensated by the will may serve as witnesses to its execution.-Section 846.

Wills in authentic form can not be dictated by signs. Deaf mutes and others who can not declare their will by word of mouth, may do so, if they are sufficiently educated, by means of instructions written by themselves and