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\par THE WILLS ACT AMENDMENT ACT, 1852.
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\par }\pard \qc \li0\ri-7\widctlpar\aspalpha\aspnum\faauto\adjustright\rin-7\lin0\itap0 {\fs24\insrsid5456139 (15 & 16 Vict. c. 24.)
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\par }\pard \qc \li0\ri-7\widctlpar\tx1985\aspalpha\aspnum\faauto\adjustright\rin-7\lin0\itap0 {\i\fs24\insrsid5456139 An Act for the Amendment of the Wills Act, 1837}{\fs24\insrsid5456139 . }{\b\fs24\insrsid5456139 [1107]}{\fs24\insrsid5456139 
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\par }{\b\fs24\insrsid5456139 1. Position of the testator's signature.-}{\fs24\insrsid5456139 Where by the Wills Act, 1837, it is en
acted, that no will shall be valid unless it shall be signed at the foot or end thereof by the testator, or by some other person in his presence, and by his direction: Every will shall, so far only as regards the position of the signature of the testator,
 
or of the person signing for him as aforesaid, be deemed to be valid within the said enactment, as explained by this Act, if the signature shall be so placed at or after, or following, or under, or beside, or opposite to the end of the will, that it shall
 
be apparent on the face of the will that the testator intended to give effect by such his signature to the writing signed as his will ; and no such will shall be affected by the circumstance that the signature shall not follow or be immediately after the 
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oot or end of the will, or by the circumstance that a blank space shall intervene between the concluding word of the will and the signature, or by the circumstance that the signature shall be placed among the words of the testimonium clause or of the clau
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e of attestation, or shall follow or be after or under the clause of attestation, either with or without a blank space intervening, or shall follow or be after, or under, or beside the names or one of the names of the subscribing witnesses, or by the circ
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mstance that the signature shall be on a side or page or other portion of the paper or papers containing the will whereon no clause or paragraph or disposing part of the will shall be written above the signature, or by the circumstance that there shall ap
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ear to be sufficient space on or at the bottom of the preceding side or page or other portion of the same paper on which the will is written to contain the signature; and the enumeration of the above circumstances shall not restrict the generality of the 
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bove enactment; but no signature under the said Act or this Act shall be operative to give effect to any disposition or direction which is underneath or which follows it, nor shall it give effect to any disposition or direction inserted after the signatur
e shall be made. }{\b\fs24\insrsid5456139 [1108]}{\fs24\insrsid5456139 
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This section modifies the effect of the words at the "foot or end" in s. 9 of the Wills Act, 1837 (c. 26), p. 441, ante ; see the notes to that section.
\par "}{\i\insrsid5456139 At.}{\insrsid5456139 "-See }{\i\insrsid5456139 In the Goods of Woodley}{\insrsid5456139  (1864), 3 Sw. & Tr. 429; }{\i\insrsid5456139 Trott and Trott v. Skidmore}{\insrsid5456139  (1860), 2 Sw. & Tr. 12.
\par "}{\i\insrsid5456139 After or following.}{\insrsid5456139 "-See }{\i\insrsid5456139 In the Goods of Wright}{\insrsid5456139  (1865), 4 Sw. & Tr. 35; }{\i\insrsid5456139 In the Goods of Grans }{\insrsid5456139 (1923), 128 L.T. 669.
\par "}{\i\insrsid5456139 Under or beside.}{\insrsid5456139 "-See }{\i\insrsid5456139 In the Goods of Jones}{\insrsid5456139  (1865), 4 Sw. & Tr. 1; }{\i\insrsid5456139 In the Goods of Stoakes}{\insrsid5456139  (1874), 31 L.T. 552; }{\i\insrsid5456139 
In the Goods of Ainsworth}{\insrsid5456139  (1870), L.R. 2 P. & D. 151; }{\i\insrsid5456139 In the Goods of Usborne}{\insrsid5456139  (1909), 25 T.L. 519, and }{\i\insrsid5456139 In the Goods of Hughes}{\insrsid5456139  (1887), 12 P. & D. 107.
\par "}{\i\insrsid5456139 Opposite to the end.}{\insrsid5456139 "-See}{\i\insrsid5456139  In the Goods of Williams}{\insrsid5456139  (1865), L.R. 1 P. & D. 4, and }{\i\insrsid5456139 Royle v. Harris}{\insrsid5456139 , [
1895] P. 163. In some cases words which are physically beneath- either wholly or partially-the signature have been considered to be above it either by reason of the mode of writing (}{\i\insrsid5456139 In the Goods of Ainsworth}{\insrsid5456139  (}{
\i\insrsid5456139 supra}{\insrsid5456139 )) or by reason of the use of asterisks or
 other signs of interpolation. Where the court is satisfied that the testator's signature really follows the dispositive part of a testamentary paper, though it may occupy a place in the paper literally above the dispositive part, such part may be admitte
d to probate (}{\i\insrsid5456139 In the Goods of Gilbert}{\insrsid5456139  (1898) 78 L.T. 762). See also }{\i\insrsid5456139 Palin v. Pointing and Another}{\insrsid5456139 
 (1930), 46 T.L.R. 310. But the mere fact that the executed part of the will terminates with an incomplete sentence continued overleaf is not sufficient to justify the admission of the words following the signature to probate (}{\i\insrsid5456139 
In the Goods of Gee}{\insrsid5456139  (1898), 78 L.T. 843), and see }{\i\insrsid5456139 In the Goods of Martin}{\insrsid5456139 , [1928] N.I. 138. As to place of signature generally, see Halsbury's Laws of England, Vol. 28, pp. 519 }{\i\insrsid5456139 
et seq}{\insrsid5456139 ., and the English and Empire Digest, Vol. 41, pp. 251 }{\i\insrsid5456139 et seq}{\insrsid5456139 .
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\par }{\b\fs24\insrsid5456139 2. Act to extend to certain wills already made.-}{\fs24\insrsid5456139 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 orde
red by a court of competent jurisdiction in consequence of the defective execution of such will, or where the property, not being within the jurisdiction of the ecclesiastical courts, has not been possessed or enjoyed by some person or persons claiming to
 
be entitled thereto in consequence of the defective execution of such will, or the right thereto shall not have been decided to be in some other person or persons than the persons claiming under the will, by a court of competent jurisdiction, in consequen
ce of the defective execution of such will. }{\b\fs24\insrsid5456139 [1109]}{\fs24\insrsid5456139 
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\par }{\b\fs24\insrsid5456139 3. Interpretation of "will."}{\fs24\insrsid5456139 -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 t
he Wills Act, 1837. }{\b\fs24\insrsid5456139 [1110]}{\fs24\insrsid5456139 
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\par }{\b\fs24\insrsid5456139 4. Short title.}{\fs24\insrsid5456139 -This Act may be cited as the Wills Act Amendment Act, 1852. }{\b\fs24\insrsid5456139 [1111]
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