 | Frederick Thomas White, Owen Davies Tudor - 1877 - 1278 էջ
...execution of a will, although it has been said that the inquiry is — "Were the testator's mind and memoir sufficiently sound to enable him to know and understand the business in which he was engaged? or. in other words, was he competent to recollect of what his property consisted, and determine who... | |
 | Sir Edward Vaughan Williams, Walter Vere Vaughan Williams - 1877 - 902 էջ
...his testament, being in that case." (m) In a case where it appeared that manner of distributing it, and the objects of his bounty ? To sum up the whole in its most simple and intelligible form, were his mind and memory sufficiently sound to enable him to... | |
 | 1881 - 694 էջ
...for his last will, and that, at the time he so signed and executed the same, his mind and memory were sufficiently sound to enable him to know and understand the business in which he was engaged, and that he had a clear conception of the general nature and extent of his property, and the disposition... | |
 | Nathaniel Cleveland Moak - 1881 - 966 էջ
...be total, or extend to his immediate family and property. If the mind and memory of a testator are sufficiently sound to enable him to know and understand the business in which he is engaged at the time of executing his will, then he is of sound mind and memory within the meaning... | |
 | John Norton Pomeroy - 1882 - 844 էջ
...without prompting, to recollect the property he was about to bequeath, the manner of distributing it,' and the objects of his bounty? To sum up the whole...memory sufficiently sound to enable him to know and to understand the business in which he was engaged at the time when he executed the will?" If any of... | |
 | 1883 - 632 էջ
...Was he capable of recollecting the property he was about to bequeath : the manner of distributing it, and the objects of his bounty? To sum up the whole in the most simple and intelligent form : Were his mind and memory sufficiently sound to enable him to know and to understand... | |
 | 1886 - 640 էջ
...devistavit vel non the question at issue is, whether or not the mind and memory of the testator were sufficiently sound to enable him to know and understand the business in which he was engaged, when he executed his will. In the case of Wilson v. Mitchell, 101 Pa., St. 495, the court clearly states... | |
 | 1900 - 1134 էջ
...between one disposition and another, it is sufficient for the making of a will. The true question Is, were his mind and memory sufficiently sound to enable him to know and to understand the business In wiiich he was engaged at the time when he executed the will? Wilson v.... | |
 | 1886 - 988 էջ
...answers of the jury, are as follows: "Question 1. Were the mind and memory of the testator, John Boyd, sufficiently sound to enable him to know and understand the business in whieli he was engaged at the time when he executed his will? Anxwer. Yes. y. '_'. Were the mind and... | |
 | 1918 - 1036 էջ
...of recollecting the property he was about to bequeath, the manner of distributing it, and the object of his bounty? To sum up the whole in the most simple and intelligent form, Were his mind and memory sufficiently sound to enable him to know, and to understand,... | |
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The question is not so much what was the degree of memory possessed by the testator ? as this : Had he a disposing memory ? was he capable of recollecting the property he was about to bequeath; the manner of distributing it; and the objects of his bounty?... 
