Section 17 Wills Act 1837 Section 17 of the Wills Act 1837 is about Executor shall be admitted a witness. It provides as follows: No person shall, on account of his being an executor of a will, be incompetent to be admitted a witness to prove the execution of such will, or a witness to…

Section 16 Wills Act 1837 Section 16 of the Wills Act 1837 is about Creditor attesting a will charging estate with debts shall be admitted a witness. It provides as follows: In case by any will any real or personal estate shall be charged with any debt or debts, and any creditor, or the wife…

Section 15 Wills Act 1837 Section 15 of the Wills Act 1837 is about Gifts to an attesting witness, or his or her wife or husband, to be void. It provides as follows: If any person shall attest the execution of any will to whom or to whose wife or husband any beneficial devise, legacy,…

Section 14 Wills Act 1837 Section 14 of the Wills Act 1837 is about Will not to be void on account of incompetency of attesting witness. It provides as follows: If any person who shall attest the execution of a will shall at the time of the execution thereof or at any time afterwards be…

Section 13 Wills Act 1837 Section 13 of the Wills Act 1837 is about Publication of will not requisite. It provides as follows: Every will executed in manner herein-before required shall be valid without any other publication thereof.

Section 11 Wills Act 1837 Section 11 of the Wills Act 1837 is about Saving as to wills of soldiers and mariners. It provides as follows: Provided always, that any soldier being in actual military service, or any mariner or seaman being at sea, may dispose of his personal estate as he might have done…

Section 10 Wills Act 1837 Section 10 of the Wills Act 1837 is about Appointments by will to be executed like other wills, and to be valid, although other required solemnities are not observed. It provides as follows: No appointment made by will, in exercise of any power , shall be valid, unless the same…

Section 9 Wills Act 1837 Section 9 of the Wills Act 1837 is about Every will shall be in writing, and signed or acknowledged by the testator in the presence of two witnesses at one time, who shall attest the will. It provides as follows: No will shall be valid unless it shall be in…

Section 8 Wills Act 1837 Section 8 of the Wills Act 1837 is about Will of a femme covert. It provides as follows: Provided also, that no will made by any married woman shall be valid, except such a will as might have been made by a married woman before the passing of this Act.

Section 7 Wills Act 1837 Section 7 of the Wills Act 1837 is about No will of a person under age valid. It provides as follows: As to a will by a soldier or sailor though under twenty-one, see s.11 of this Act, and the Wills (Soldiers and Sailors) Act, 1918 (c.58), ss. 1, 3(2),…