Devisavit Vel Non
Bouvier's Law Dictionary and Concise Encyclopedia · John Bouvier; revised by Francis Rawle · 1914
Bouvier's Law Dictionary and Concise Encyclopedia
The name of an "lit of a court of chancery. or Which exercises chancery or probate jurisdiction, to a court of law, to try the validit a paper asserted and denied to he a will, to in whether or not the testator did devise, or whether or not that paper was his will; 7 Bro. P. C. 437; 2 Atk. 424; Asay \.
Hoover, 5 Pa. 21, 45 Am. Dec. 713.
An application for an issue d< non is properly denied where the decided Weight of evidence is in favor of the I mentary capacity of testatrix, and it appears that the two sons in whose favor the will was made cared for their mother and her estate, while the two who had been disinherited, attempted to have her declared insane; In re Pensyl's Estate, 157 Pa. 4( Atl. 6G9.