Francois v. Tufts’s Empirical Analysis
1986
Citation profile
2
cited by 2 later decisions
1
states following
December 1990
most recently cited
2 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Canter v. Koehring Company · Succession of Schmidt · Succession of Mithoff · Succession of Lambert · Succession of Kilpatrick
Most-quoted passages
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“only by authentic act or by act under private signature executed in the presence of two witnesses and duly acknowledged by the settlor or by the affidavit of one of the attesting witnesses.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“I leave and bequeath all of my property, both immovable and moveable, corporeal and incorporeal to my wife Dorothy Weisfeld Francois.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“I leave all I die possessed to my beloved wife Dorothy Weisfeld Francois.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
How this case has been treated — in progress
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