Index
Analysis
Title
1 Interpretation
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3 All property may be disposed of by will
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6 Devolution of estates pur autre vie not disposed of by will
7 Declared not to be in force in New Zealand as from 1 January 1970 by s. 4 of the Wills Amendment Act 1969.
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9 Formal requirements of will
10 Execution and validity of appointments by will
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13 Publication of will not requisite
14 Will not to be void on account of incompetency of attesting witness
15 Gifts to an attesting witness, or his or her wife or husband, to be void
16 Creditor attesting a will charging estate with debts to be admitted a witness
17 Executor to be admitted a witness
18 Revocation of wills by marriage
19 No will to be revoked by presumption from altered circumstances
20 Manner of revocation of will
21 Alteration in a will after execution, except in certain cases, to have no effect unless executed as a will
22 Revoked will not to be revived otherwise than by re-execution or a codicil
23 Subsequent conveyance or other act not to prevent operation of will
24 Wills to be construed to speak from death of testator
25 Residuary devises to include estates comprised in lapsed and void devises
26 General devise of land to include copyhold and leasehold as well as freehold land
27 General gift of realty or personalty to include property over which testator has a general power of appointment
28 Devise of real estate without any words of limitation to pass the fee
29 Construction of words ``die without issue'' or ``die without leaving issue'', etc.
30 Devise of realty to trustees or executors to pass the fee, etc.
31 Trustees under an unlimited devise to take the fee in certain cases
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33 Gifts to children or other issue who leave issue living at the testator's death not to lapse
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35 Act not to extend to Scotland
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Amending Act/Rule(s)

1 The Wills Act Amendment Act 1852 (U.K.)
2 The Wills Amendment Act 1955
3 The Wills Amendment Act 1958
4 The Wills Amendment Act 1960
5 The Wills Amendment Act 1962
6 The Wills Amendment Act 1969
7 The Wills Amendment Act 1977