Tennessee § 32-1-109 - Requisites of will executed on or before February 15, 1941.
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§ 32-1-109. Requisites of will executed on or before February 15, 1941.
No last will or testament executed on or before February 15, 1941, shall be good or sufficient to convey or give an estate in lands, unless written in the testator's lifetime, and signed by the testator, or by some other person in the testator's presence and by the testator's direction, and subscribed in the testator's presence by two (2) witnesses at least, neither of whom is interested in the devise of the lands. Code 1858, § 2162 (deriv. Acts 1784 (Apr.), ch. 22, § 11); Shan., § 3895; Code 1932, § 8089; modified; T.C.A. (orig. ed.), § 32-109. Textbooks. Pritchard on Wills and Administration of Estates (4th ed., Phillips and Robinson), §§ 5, 7, 152, 191, 194, 196, 202, 209, 222, 237. Tennessee Jurisprudence, 25 Tenn. Juris., Wills, §§ 9, 11, 12, 49, 59. Law Reviews. Some Suggested Legislation in the Field of Wills (W. Raymond Blackard), 14 Tenn. L. Rev. 381 (1937). The Effects of the Enactment of the 1941 Wills Act, 17 Tenn. L. Rev. 447 (1943).
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