foreign will
Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court
Definitions from Case Law
From 22 U.S. 565 - Kerr v. Devisees of a Moon · 1824Most cited · 81 citing opinions
need for local probate
a person claiming under a will proved in one State, cannot intermeddle with, or sue for, the effects of a testator in another State, unless the will be proved in that other State, or unless he be permitted to do so by some law of that state.
How often courts cite the case defining “foreign will”
Court decisions citing the opinion that defined “foreign will” — 79 in all, by decade. Counts are citations to the defining case as a whole, not verified uses of the term. The dip in the most recent years is a data-coverage gap, not a real trend — our corpus holds fewer opinions from the latest years.