funds, securities for money (not being real estates), debts, choses in action, rights, credits, goods, and all other property whatsoever which by law devolves upon the executor or administrator, and to any share or interest therein; and every word importing the singular num- Number: ber only shall extend and be applied to several persons or things as well as one person or thing; and every word importing the masculine gender only shall Gender. extend and be applied to a female as well as a male. the statutes Wills, 32 H. 8, c. 1, and 34 & 35 H. 8, c. 5. II. And be it further enacted, that Repeal of an act passed in the thirty-second year of of the reign of King Henry the Eighth, intituled The Act of Wills, Wards, and Primer Seisins, whereby a Man may devise Two parts of his Land; and also an act passed in the thirty-fourth and thirtyfifth years of the reign of the said King Henry the Eighth, intituled The Bill concerning the Explanation of Wills; and also an act passed in the parliament of Ireland, in the tenth year of the reign of King Charles the First, intituled An 10 Car. 1. Act how Lands, Tenements, &c. may be Sess. 2, c. disposed by Will or otherwise, and concerning Wards and Primer Seisins; and Sec. 5, 6, also so much of an act passed in the 12, 19, 20, twenty-ninth year of the reign of King of the Sta 2, (I.) 21, & 22, tute of Frauds, 29 Car. 2, c. c. 12, (I.) Charles the Second, intituled An Act for Prevention of Frauds and Perjuries, and 3; 7 W. 3, of an act passed in the parliament of Ireland, in the seventh year of the reign of King William the Third, intituled An Act for Prevention of Frauds and Perjuries, as relates to devises or bequests of lands or tenements, or to the revocation or alteration of any devise in writing of any lands, tenements, or hereditaments, or any clause thereof, or to the devise of any estate pur autre vie, or to any such estate being assets, or to nuncupative wills, or to the repeal, altering, or changing of any will in writing concerning any goods or chattels or personal estate, or any clause, devise, or bequest Sec. 14 of therein; and also so much of an act 4 & 5 Anne, passed in the fourth and fifth years of the c. 16. 6 Anne, c. 10, (1.) reign of Queen Anne, intituled An Act for the Amendment of the Law and the better Advancement of Justice, and of an act passed in the parliament of Ireland in the sixth year of the reign of Queen Anne, intituled An Act for the Amendment of the Law, and the better Advancement of Justice, as relates to witnesses to Sec. 9 of nuncupative wills; and also so much of an act passed in the fourteenth year of the reign of King George the Second, intituled An Act to amend the Law con 14 G. 2, c. 20. cerning Common Recoveries, and to explain and amend an Act made in the twenty-ninth Year of the Reign of King Charles the Second, intituled, An Act for Prevention of Frauds and Perjuries,' as relates to estates pur autre vie; and also 25 G. 2, c. an act passed in the twenty-fifth year as to colo6, (except of the reign of King George the Se-nies.) cond, intituled An Act for avoiding and putting an end to certain Doubts and Questions relating to the Attestation_of Wills and Codicils concerning Real Estates in that Part of Great Britain called England, and in His Majesty's Colonics and Plantations in America, except so far as relates to his Majesty's colonies and plantations in America; and also an act passed in the parliament 25 G. 2. c. of Ireland in the same twenty-fifth year 11, (I.) of the reign of King George the Second, intituled An Act for the avoiding and putting an end to certain Doubts and Questions relating to the Attestations of Wills and Codicils concerning Real Estates; and also an act passed in the fifty- 55 G. 3, c. fifth year of the reign of King George 192. the Third, intituled An Act to remove certain Difficulties in the Disposition of Copyhold Estates by Will, shall be and the same are hereby repealed, except so far as the same acts or any of them re All pro be disposed of by will, customary spectively relate to any wills or estates pur autre vie to which this act does not extend. III. And be it further enacted, that it perty may shall be lawful for every person to devise, bequeath, or dispose of, by his will executed in manner hereinafter required, all real estate and all personal estate which he shall be entitled to, either at law or in equity, at the time of his death, and which if not so devised, bequeathed, or disposed of would devolve upon the heir at law, or customary heir of him, or, if he became entitled by descent, of his ancestor, or upon his execomprising cutor or administrator; and that the power hereby given shall extend to all and copy- real estate of the nature of customary freehold or tenant right, or customary or render and copyhold, notwithstanding that the tesmittance, tator may not have surrendered the same to the use of his will, or notwithstanding that, being entitled as heir, cannot now devisee, or otherwise to be admitted thereto, he shall not have been admitted thereto, or notwithstanding that the same in consequence of the want of a custom to devise or surrender to the use of a will or otherwise, could not at law have been disposed of by will if this act had not been made, or notwith freeholds holds withoutsur before ad and also such of them as be devised; standing that the same, in consequence of there being a custom that a will or a surrender to the use of a will should continue in force for a limited time only, or any other special custom, could not have been disposed of by will according to the power contained in this act, if this act had not been made; and also to estates pur estates pur autre vie, whether there shall autre vie; or shall not be any special occupant thereof, and whether the same shall be freehold, customary freehold, tenant right, customary or copyhold, or of any other tenure, and whether the same shall be a corporeal or an incorporeal hereditament; and also to all contin- contingent interests; gent, executory, or other future interests , in any real or personal estate, whether the testator may or may not be ascertained as the person or one of the persons in whom the same respectively may become vested, and whether he may be entitled thereto under the instrument by which the same respectively were created or under any disposition thereof by deed or will; and also to all rights of entry rights of for conditions broken, and other rights entry; and of entry; and also to such of the same acquired estates, interests, and rights respec- tion of the tively, and other real and personal es- will. tate, as the testator may be entitled to property after execu |