FORM 19. WILL

I, Martin E. Webb, of the city of Yonkers, County of Westchester, and State of New York, being of sound mind, memory, and understanding, do make, publish, and declare the following as and for my last Will and Testament; that is to say:

First. I hereby revoke all wills, codicils, or testamentary instruments by me at any time heretofore made.

Second. I direct that my just debts and funeral expenses be paid as soon after my death as may be practicable.

Third. I give, devise, and bequeath to my wife, Helen Webb, my residence property in the city of Yonkers, known as No. 3582 Warburton Avenue, including therewith all furnishings and household effects therein. contained; and also the sum of twenty thousand dollars.

Fourth. I give and bequeath to my son, George H. Webb, the sum of twenty thousand dollars, my Packard automobile, and all my personal effects.

Fifth. I give and bequeath to Children's Guardian Society, a corporation conducting a home and school for orphan children in said City of Yonkers, the sum of One Thousand Dollars.

Sixth. All the residue of my estate I give and bequeath, in four equal shares, to my wife Helen Webb, my son George H. Webb, the abovementioned Children's Guardian Society, and my nephew James C. Katley.

Seventh. I nominate and appoint my nephew James C. Katley executor of this my last will and testament, and direct that no bond be required of him by reason of such appointment.

IN WITNESS WHEREOF I have hereunto set my hand and seal at my residence in the City of Yonkers this 30th day of June in the year one thousand nine hundred and

MARTIN E. WEBB. (L.S.)

On this 30th day of June in the year one thousand nine hundred and Martin E. Webb, the above named testator, in our presence and in the presence of each of us, signed and sealed the foregoing instrument and published and declared the same to be his last Will and Testament, and we thereupon at his request, in his presence and in the presence of each other, hereunto subscribed our names and residences as attesting witnesses.

SAMUEL MOORE residing at 227 Fowler Avenue, Yonkers, New York. ROBERT MOORE residing at 252 Buckingham Road, Yonkers, New York.

Abandonment: In marine insurance, the giving up of the property partly destroyed to the insurer, the owner's purpose being to claim the full amount of the insurance.

Abrogate: To annul or destroy; to abolish entirely.

Acceptance Supra Protest: Acceptance for the protection of the drawer, by a person other than the drawee.

Accommodation Indorser: One who indorses a note or draft without consideration, in order that another may raise money upon it.

Accommodation Paper: Notes or drafts for which no consideration passes between the original parties.

Accord and Satisfaction: A means of settling a claim by compromising the amount which is in dispute, or by giving something else than that which was originally agreed upon.

Acknowledgment: The act by which a party who has executed an instrument declares or acknowledges it before a competent officer to be his or her act or deed.

Action: The formal means of recovering one's rights in a court of justice a suit at law.

Act of God: An accident resulting from a physical cause which is irresistible, such as lightning, floods, etc.

Adjudication: The act of a court in giving judgment in a suit at law. Administrator: One who is appointed to take charge of the property or estate of a person who died without leaving a will.

Admiralty: The court or law dealing with controversies arising out of the navigation of public waters.

Adult: A person twenty-one or more years of age. In some states, a female eighteen or more years of age is an adult.

Adverse Possession: Open, actual, exclusive, and continuous possession of real property under claim or color of title, hostile to the claim of another.

Affidavit: A statement in writing, signed by the person making it, and sworn to by him before an officer authorized to take oaths.

Age of Consent: The age at which infants are capable of entering into a

valid contract of marriage.

Agistor or Agister: One who takes cattle to pasture for hire.

Alias: A Latin word meaning otherwise or hitherto.

Alien: One owing allegiance to another country; usually a foreign-born resident of a country in which he is not a citizen.

Alien Enemy: An alien who is the subject of a country at war with the country in which he then lives.

Alienate: To convey the title to property.

Alimony: An allowance made by order of a court to a woman out of the property of him who is or was her husband, on legal separation or divorce, or during a suit for it.

Aliunde: From another source; outside evidence; as, a case proved aliunde. Allonge: A paper attached to a bill or note for indorsements which the original paper will not hold.

Annuity: An amount payable yearly.
Annulment: The act of making void.

Anomalous Indorsement: An irregular indorsement.
Ante-dated: Bearing a date earlier than the actual date.

Appurtenance: In a deed or lease, anything that will go with the land, as a right of way.

Arbitration: The hearing and determining of a cause in controversy by a person or persons either chosen by the parties involved or appointed by some authority.

Articles of Copartnership: The written agreement by which a partnership is formed.

Attachment: The seizure of property by legal process.

Attestation: Signing an instrument as a witness.

Attorney in Fact: An agent appointed by power of attorney.
Award: The decision of arbitrators.

Barter: The exchange of articles of personal property: distinguished from a sale, in which property is sold for money.

Beneficiary: The person who is entitled to the benefits of a contract or of an estate held by another.

Bequeath: To give property by will; especially, to give personal property by will.

Bilateral Contract: A kind of contract in which an offer in the form of a promise is accepted by a promise.

Bill of Lading: A document given by a carrier to a shipper; it is both a receipt and a contract.

Bona Fide: In good faith. Openly and without deceit or fraud.

Bond: A sealed instrument by which one party agrees to pay another a

certain sum or to perform a certain act.

Breach: In the law of contracts the violation of an agreement or obligation. By-laws: The regulations made by a corporation for its own government. Caveat Emptor: "Let the buyer beware"; a rule which excludes or weakens the implied warranty of goods which are before the buyer and open to his examination.

Certificate of Deposit: A certificate issued by a bank, certifying to the deposit of a stated sum of money payable to order or bearer.

Cestui Que Trust: One for whose benefit property is held by a trustee.

Chancery: In the United States a court of equity; a court of records or office of public records.

Charter: (1) A formal instrument by which a government creates a corporation or grants special rights or privileges to a particular person or persons. (2) To hire or let a vessel or part of it.

Charter Party: The written instrument by which the owner of a vessel lets it, or a part of it, to another.

Chattel: An article of personal property.

Chose in Action: A thing, the possession of which one has a right to demand by action at law.

Chose in Possession: Personal property of which one has the actual possession.

Client: A person who employs an attorney to act for him in any legal busi

ness.

Code: Any systematic body of law having statutory force.

Collateral Security: Property, especially stocks and bonds, deposited as a pledge to guarantee the payment of a promissory note.

Complainant: The person who brings an action at law; the plaintiff. Complaint: A formal statement of a charge or cause of action against a person named therein.

Compromise: To reach a settlement by mutual concessions.

Concurrent: Existing at the same time.

Condition Precedent: A condition in an agreement requiring some act to be performed by one person before another is liable.

Condition Subsequent: A part of an agreement relating to a future event, upon the happening of which the obligation is no longer binding upon one of the parties to a contract.

Consanguinity: Relationship by blood.

Consignee: A person to whom goods are shipped.

Consignor: A person shipping goods.

Counterclaim: A claim existing in favor of a defendant.

Covenant: Any promise contained in a sealed instrument.

Coverture: The legal status of a married woman.

Curtesy: The estate a man has in the lands of his wife upon her death, in case a living child has been born to them during their marriage.

Customs: The established habits of a trade or business which will be consid

ered by a court as applying to a contract in such trade or business. Declaration: A formal statement of the facts on which a cause of action is based; a complaint.

Decree: The judgment or decision of a court of equity.

De Facto: In fact, actually.

Default: Omission; neglect or failure.

Del Credere Agent: An agent who guarantees that the persons to whom he sells will perform the contracts he makes with them.

Demise: A conveyance of an estate in real property for life or for years.

Demurrer: A pleading by the defendant to an action, claiming that even if all the plaintiff sets forth in his complaint is true, still he is not entitled to recover.

Deponent: One who makes oath as to the truth of a written statement. Devise: To grant real property by will.

Disability: Want of qualification; incapacity to do a legal act.

Disaffirm: To repudiate.

'Domicile: A person's legal residence; his permanent home to which he intends to return if absent from it.

Duress: Personal restraint or compulsion.

Earnest: Formerly money paid to bind a bargain; now, a part of the price named in a contract paid by the vendee at the time the bargain is made. Easement: The right one person has to use the land of another for a particular purpose.

Embezzlement: Appropriating to one's own use money intrusted to one's custody.

Emblements: Growing crops of any kind produced by expense and labor. Eminent Domain: The right of the sovereign power to take private property for public purposes.

Enact: To make a law, or to establish by law.

Equity (Chancery): A system of courts granting extraordinary relief when the remedies at law are not adequate.

Equity of Redemption: The right which a mortgagor has to redeem his estate after he is in default on the mortgage.

Escheat: The reversion of land to the state upon the death of the owner without lawful heirs.

Escrow: A deed or bond delivered to a third party to be held and delivered to the grantee or creditor upon the performance of some condition.

Estate: An interest in property.

Estoppel: A rule of law which stops a man from asserting a fact or claim. Eviction: The dispossession of a person by process of law from land which he has previously held.

Execution: (1) A judicial writ directing the enforcement of a judgment. (2) The act of signing and sealing a written instrument.

Executor: A person named in a will to carry out its provisions.

Exemption Laws: Laws under which a judgment debtor may hold certain articles exempt from levy and sale.

Ex Post Facto Law: A law which makes criminal an act which was done previously and which when done was not a crime.

Extradition: The surrender by one government to another of a person charged with a crime.

Foreclosure: The process of enforcing a lien against property.

Forgery: The fraudulent making, signing, or altering of a written instrument.

Franchise: A privilege or right conferred by governing authority.