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Revocation of will

Black's Law Dictionary · Henry Campbell Black, M.A. · 1910

Black's Law Dictionary

The recalling, annulling, or rendering inoperative an existing will, by some subsequent act of the testator, which may be by the making of a new will inconsistent with the terms of the first, or by destroying the old will, or by disposing of the property to which it related, or otherwise.

See Boudinot v. Bradford, 2 Dall. 268, 1 In Ed. 375; Lathrop v. Dunlop, 4 Hun (N. Y.) 215; Carter v. Thomas, 4 Me. 342; Langdon v. Astor, 3 Duer (N. Y.) 561; Graham v. Burch, 47 Minn. 171, 48 N. W. 607, 28 Am. St. Rep. 339; Gardner v. Gardiner, 65 N. H. 230, 19 Atl. 651, 8 In R. A. 383; Caller v. Cutler, 130 N. C. 1, 40 S. E. 689, 57 In R. A. 209, 89 Am. St. Rep. 854