implied, constructive, or legal revocations
Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court
Definitions from Case Law
From 2 U.S. 286 - Lawson v. Morrison · 1792Most cited · 7 citing opinions
other acts of the testator, which have always been considered as revocations, because contrary to, or inconsistent with, the Will, and evidencing an alteration of intention; as a deed in fee; or a lease for years to the same devisee, to commence after the testator's death; a subsequent marriage and birth of a child, cancelling, obliterating or destroying the Will, and such like. These are termed, 'implied, constructive, or legal, revocations,' and still subsist as they were before the act of Assembly, or the statute of frauds.
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