Category: Nigeria


  • Wills Amendment Act 1852 An Act for the Amendment of the Wills Act, 1837. Sections Section 1 Wills Amendment Act 1852 – Position of the testator’s signature. Section 2 Wills Amendment Act 1852 – Act to extend to certain wills already made. Section 3 Wills Amendment Act 1852 – Interpretation of “will.” Section 4 Wills…

  • Section 4 Amendment Wills Act 1852 Section 4 of the Wills Amendment Act 1852 is about Short title. It provides as follows: This Act may be cited as the Wills Act Amendment Act, 1852.

  • Section 3 Wills Amendment Act 1852 Section 3 of the Wills Amendment Act 1852 is about Interpretation of “will.” It provides as follows: The word “will” shall in the construction of this Act be interpreted in like manner as the same is directed to be interpreted under the provisions in this behalf contained in the…

  • Section 2 Wills Amendment Act 1852 Section 2 of the Wills Amendment Act 1852 is about Act to extend to certain wills already made. It provides as follows: The provisions of this Act shall extend and be applied to every will already made, where administration or probate has not already been granted or ordered by…

  • Section 1 Wills Amendment Act 1852 Section 1 of the Wills Amendment Act 1852 is about Position of the testator’s signature. It provides as follows: Where by the Wills Act, 1837, it is enacted, that no will shall be valid unless it shall be signed at the foot or end thereof by the testator, or…

  • Wills Act 1837

    Wills Act 1837 An Act for the amendment of the Laws with respect to Wills. Sections Section 1 Wills Act 1837 – Meaning of certain words in this Act. Section 2 Wills Act 1837 – (Repealed) Section 3 Wills Act 1837 – All property may be disposed of by will. Section 4 Wills Act 1837…

  • Section 35 Wills Act 1837 Section 35 of the Wills Act 1837 is about Act does not to extend to Scotland. It provides as follows: This Act shall not extend to Scotland

  • Section 34 Wills Act 1837 Section 34 of the Wills Act 1837 is about Act not to extend to wills made before 1838, or to estates pur autre vie of persons who die before 1838. It provides as follows: This Act shall not extend to any will made before the first day of January one…

  • Section 33 Wills Act 1837 Section 33 of the Wills Act 1837 is about Gifts to children or other issue who leave issue living at the testator’s death shall not lapse. It provides as follows: Where any person being a child or other issue of the testator to whom any real or personal estate shall…

  • Section 32 Wills Act 1837 Section 32 of the Wills Act 1837 is about Devises of estates tail shall not lapse where inheritable issue survives, etc. It provides as follows: Where any person to whom any real estate shall be devised for an estate tail or an estate in quasi entail shall die in the…