Nuncupative Will
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary · Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary
An oral will, declared by a testator, in extremis, before witnesses, and afterwards reduced to writing.
4 Kent, Comm. 576; 2 Bl. Comm. 500; 1 Jarm. Wills (Perkins Ed.) 130-136. See 1 Wm. IV. c. 20; 1 Vict. c.
26, §§ 9, 11; 11 Eng. Law & Eq. 596, — by which the privilege of making a nuncupative will is only allowed to soldiers and seamen in actual service. So in almost all the states.
See, in general, 27 Ala. (N. S.) 296, 596; 26 N. H. 372; 9 N. Y. 196; 10 Grat. (Va.) 548; 27 Miss. 119, 725; 2 R. I. 133; 4 Bradf. Sur. (N. Y.) 154; 22 Ga. 293, 603; 12 La. Ann. 114, 603; 1 Sneed (Tenn.) 616; 1 Williams, Ex'rs, 59; Swinb. Wills; Ayliffe, Pand. 359; Roberts, Wills; 2 Bouv. Inst. note 436; 1 Brown, Civ. Law, 288.
NUNDINAE (Law Lat.) In civil and old English law. Fair or fairs. Dion Halic. lib.
2, p.
98; Vicat; Law Fr. & Lat. Diet. NUNQUAM (Lat.) Never. Nunquam fuit ballivus ejus, vel mercator, vel denariorum suorum receptor, vel administrator, never was his bailiff or merchant, or receiver of his moneys, or administrator. NUNQUAM CRESCIT EX POST FACTO praeteriti delicti aestimatio. The quality of a past offense is never aggravated by that which happens subsequent.
Dig. 50. 17. 138. 1; Bac. Max. reg. 8; Broom, Leg. Max. (3d London Ed.) 41.
NUNQUAM DECURRITUR AD EXTRAORDINARIUM sed ubi deficit ordinarium. We are never to recur to what is extraordinary till what is ordinary fails.
4 Inst. 84.