Wiley v. Wiley’s Empirical Analysis

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1 state decisions

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1. “"The intent to revoke is essential to a revocation by act of the testator. In order that an act shall have the effect of revoking a will, the intention to revoke must appear clearly and unequivocally; a will is not revoked by any act of spoliation or destruction not deliberately done animo revocandi. * * * Even where one of the statutory methods for revoking a will is followed by the testator, his act is ineffectual unless his intent thereby to revoke or alter the will appears. (Id., 228 Miss. at 628 , 89 So.2d at 706 ). (Emphasis added).”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Livelar v. Arnold