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Cap. 30activeordinance

Wills Ordinance

遺囑條例

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s.1

Short title

This Ordinance may be cited as the
Wills Ordinance
.

Table of Contents

Sections

1Short title
2Interpretation
3All property may be disposed of by will
4Wills of persons not of full age
5Signing and witnessing of a will
6Privileged wills
7Appointment by will
8Publication of will not necessary
9Will not void on account of incompetency of witness
10Avoidance of gifts to attesting witnesses and their spouses
11Creditor attesting will charging estate with debts admissible as witness
12Executor admissible as witness
13Modes of revocation of will
14Will to be revoked by marriage, except in certain cases
15Effect of dissolution or annulment of marriage
16Alterations in will after execution
17Revoked will not revived otherwise than by re-execution or codicil
18Subsequent conveyance or other act not to prevent operation of will
19Will to speak from death of testator
20General disposition of land to include leasehold
21General disposition of property to include property over which testator has a general power of appointment
22Meaning ofdie without issueetc.
23Gifts to children or other issue who leave issue living at the testator’s death
23ARectification
23BInterpretation of wills—general provisions as to evidence
23CPresumption as to effect of gifts to donees
24General rule as to formal validity
25Additional rules
26Certain requirements to be treated as formal
27Construction of wills
28Application where two or more systems of law in force in territory or state
29Determination of conformity of execution of will to particular law
30Application

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