Section 26 Wills Act 1837

Section 26 of the Wills Act 1837 is about A general devise of the testator’s lands shall include copyhold and leasehold as well as freehold lands, in the absence of a contrary intention. It provides as follows:

A devise of the land of the testator, or of the land of the testator in any place or in the occupation of any person mentioned in his will, or otherwise described in a general manner, and any other general devise which would describe a customary copyhold, or leasehold estate if the testator had no freehold estate which could be described by it, shall be construed to include the customary, copyhold and leasehold estates of the testator, or his customary, copyhold, and leasehold estates, or any of them, to which such description shall extend, as the case may be, as well as freehold estates, unless a contrary intention shall appear by the will.