If a medical man be present when the will is made, he may easily satisfy himself of the state of mind of the testator, by requiring him to repeat from memory the mode in which he has disposed of the bulk of his property. Medical men have sometimes placed... Medical jurisprudence - Page 571by Alfred Swaine Taylor - 1853 - 621 pagesFull view - About this book
| John Carr Badeley - 1851 - 68 pages
...where, in consequence of alleged imbecility, some disappointed expectant has disputed the will : — " If a medical man be present when the will is made,...testator, by requiring him to repeat from memory the way in which he has disposed of the bulk of his property. If a dying person cannot do this without... | |
| Alfred Swaine Taylor - Forensic toxicology - 1873 - 926 pages
...and influence on the part of interested persons. If a medical man be present when a will is executed, he may easily satisfy himself of the state of mind...which he has disposed of the bulk of his property. A medical man has sometimes placed himself in a serious position by becoming a witness to a will without... | |
| Alfred Swaine Taylor - Medical jurisprudence - 1873 - 718 pages
...medical man is present when a will is executed, he may easily satisfy himself of the state of mind of a testator, by requiring him to repeat from memory the...which he has disposed of the bulk of his property. A medical man has sometimes placed himself in a serious position by becoming a witness to a will without... | |
| Alfred Swaine Taylor - Medical jurisprudence - 1874 - 804 pages
...medical man be present when a will is executed, he may easily satisfy himself of the state of mind of a testator, by requiring him to repeat from memory the...which he has disposed of the bulk of his property. A medical man has sometimes placed himself in a serious position by becoming a witness to a will without... | |
| John Hutton Balfour Browne - Insanity (Law) - 1880 - 722 pages
...answer simple questions affirmatively or negatively with intelligence. Dr. Taylor has suggested that "if a medical man be present when the will is made, he may easily satisfy himself of the state of the mind of the testator by requiring him to repeat from memory the mode in which he has disposed of... | |
| Alfred Swaine Taylor - 1883 - 708 pages
...will is executed, he may easily satisfy himself of the state of mind of a testator, by requirin;.' him to repeat from memory the mode in which he has disposed of the bulk of his property. A medical man has sometimes placed himself in a serious position by becoming a witness to a will without... | |
| Virginia. Supreme Court of Appeals - Law reports, digests, etc - 1895 - 1080 pages
...perhaps. ' If a medical man be present when VOL. xc— 113 the will is made,' says this learned writer, ' he may easily satisfy himself of the state of mind...themselves of the actual mental condition of the testator.' ' 1 Red. on Wills, 95-6. Dr. Nelson, as well as the subscribing witnesses, failed to take this necessary... | |
| Law reports, digests, etc - 1896 - 672 pages
...a medical man be present when a will is executed, he may satisfy himself of the state of mind of a testator by requiring him to repeat from memory the...which he has disposed of the bulk of his property. A medical man has sometimes placed himself in a serious position by becoming a witness to a will without... | |
| Law reports, digests, etc - 1922 - 1218 pages
...a person to do an act requiring mental comprehension and disposing judgment is to have the testator repeat from memory the mode In which he has disposed of the bulk of his property. Uedfleld on Wills (4th Ed.) 87 (5). If memory ceases to function, there is an absence of testamentary... | |
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