Part VII Wills (ss. 76-100)

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Succession Act, 1965 (No. 27)
Part VII Wills (ss. 76-100)

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Version status: | Document consolidation status: Updated to reflect all known changes

Version date: 22 December 1965 - onwards

		Future version	Amendment requiring commencement	Draft proposed change
	76. Property which may be disposed of by will.
	77. Capacity to make a will.
	78. Signing and witnessing will.
	79. Appointments by will.
	80. Publication of will not necessary.
	81. Will not void on account of incompetency of witness.
	82. Gifts to an attesting witness, or spouse of witness, to be void.
	83. Creditor attesting will charging estate with debts admissible as witness.
	84. Executor admissible as witness.
	85. Revocation of will.
	86. Alterations in will after execution.
	87. Revoked will not revived otherwise than by re-execution or codicil.
	88. Subsequent conveyance or other act not to prevent operation of will.
	89. Will to speak from death of testator.
	90. Extrinsic evidence as to will.
	91. Residuary devise or bequest to include estate comprised in lapsed and void gifts.
	92. General devise of land to include leasehold as well as freehold.
	93. General gift of realty or personalty to include property over which testator has general power of appointment.
	94. Devise of real estate without words of limitation to pass whole estate.
	95. Creation of estates tail.
	96. Meaning of "die without issue".
	97. Devise of estate tail not to lapse where inheritable issue survives.
	98. Gifts to children or other issue who leave issue living at testator's death.
	99. Interpretation of devise or bequest in case of doubt.
	100. Restriction on executory limitations.