Inofficious

An inofficious will is one in which natural affection and the claims of near relationship have been disregarded.^ The civil law defines an inofficious or undutiful will to be such as substantially departs from the disposition of the estate which would be made in case of intestacy. In America, authority to make a will implies the power to discriminate between, or to disinherit, next of kin; and the fact of such discrimination raises no presumption of undue influence.' See Testamentum, Inofficiosum.

tn civil law. Those dispositions, which fathers, mothers, and other ascendants make of their property to the prejudice of their descendants, beyond the proportion reserved to them by law, are called inofficious. Civ. Code of Lo. art. 2522, No. 21. Such a disposition of property is void.' Vide Dig. 5, 2,5; Inst. 2, 18, 1; Code, 3, 29; Nov. 115; Ayl. Pand. 405.