Wills Act 1838 - Singapore Statutes Online

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3 Property disposable by will

4 Will of infant invalid

5 Rules as to formal validity

7 Execution of appointment by will

8 Publication of will not necessary

9 Will not to be invalidated by reason of incompetency of attesting witness

10 Gifts to attesting witness or to wife or husband of attesting witness to be void

11 Creditor attesting a will charging estate with debts to be admitted a witness

12 Executor not incompetent to be witness

13 Will to be revoked by marriage except in certain cases

14 No will to be revoked by presumption from altered circumstances

15 Revocation of will or codicil

16 Effect of obliteration, interlineation or alteration

17 Revival of revoked will

18 Subsequent conveyance or other acts not to prevent operation of will

19 Will to be construed to speak from death of testator

20 Residuary devises to include estates comprised in lapsed and void devises

21 General gift of realty and of personality to include property over which testator has general power of appointment

22 Devise without words of limitation

23 Construction of words importing want or failure of issue

24 Devise of real estate to trustee or executor

25 Devise of real estate to trustee without limitation

26 Gifts to children or other issue who leave issue living at testator’s death not to lapse

27 Saving as to wills of soldiers and mariners

28 Rectification of will

Gifts to children or other issue who leave issue living at testator’s death not to lapse

26. Where any person being a child or other issue of the testator to whom any real or personal estate shall be devised or bequeathed for any estate or interest not determinable at or before the death of that person shall die in the lifetime of the testator leaving issue, and any such issue of that person shall be living at the time of the death of the testator, that devise or bequest shall not lapse, but shall take effect as if the death of that person had happened immediately after the death of the testator, unless a contrary intention shall appear by the will.

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