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Record 1 2016-03-07

English

Subject field(s)
  • Law of Estates (common law)
  • Property Law (common law)
DEF

... an affidavit(i. e., a statement sworn to by one such witness) made by one of the witnesses to the will confirming for the court various matters which enable it to determine that the will(or codicil) is valid.

CONT

Affidavit of execution of will ... [A will] must be in writing and signed at the foot or end thereof by the testator, or by some other person in his presence and by his direction; and such signature shall be made or acknowledged by the testator, in the presence of two or more witnesses present at the same time, and such witnesses shall attest and shall subscribe the will in the presence of the testator, but no form of attestation is necessary.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Droit successoral (common law)
  • Droit des biens et de la propriété (common law)

Spanish

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Record 2 2016-03-07

English

Subject field(s)
  • Law of Estates (common law)
CONT

Notwithstanding that the will appoints an executor in express terms, other provisions of the will, or those of a codicil, may appoint someone also co-executor or according to the tenor.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Droit successoral (common law)
OBS

«coexécuteur» ou «coexécuteur testamentaire» et «exécuteur testamentaire implicitement désigné» sont les équivalents de «co-executor» et de «executor according to the tenor» normalisés dans le cadre du PAJLO

Spanish

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Record 3 2016-03-07

English

Subject field(s)
  • Law of Estates (common law)
CONT

The codicil which revives the earlier will may not revive a codicil to it. Where a testator made a will in 1866, made a codicil to it in 1871, made a later will in 1871 revoking all prior testamentary papers and in 1872, made a codicil which commenced by stating it was a codicil to the will of 1866 and concluded with the appointment of the testator's son as executor of the will and codicil and the attestation clause also described it as being a codicil to the will of 1866, it was held that the only intention to be gathered from the words of the codicil was that the testator intended to revive the will of 1866 but not the codicil of 1871.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Droit successoral (common law)
OBS

remettre quelque chose à ..., en ... : Faire passer dans un autre état, ou à l'état antérieur.

OBS

en vigueur : En application actuellement.

OBS

codicille : Acte postérieur à un testament qui modifie, complète ou annule ce testament.

Spanish

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Record 4 2015-06-26

English

Subject field(s)
  • PAJLO
  • Property Law (common law)
  • Law of Estates (common law)
DEF

Restoration to effect of a will or codicil which has been revoked.(Mellows, the Law of Succession, 3rd ed., 1977, p. 140)

French

Domaine(s)
  • PAJLO
  • Droit des biens et de la propriété (common law)
  • Droit successoral (common law)
OBS

remise en vigueur : terme normalisé par le Comité de normalisation dans le cadre du Programme national de l'administration de la justice dans les deux langues officielles (PAJLO).

Spanish

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Record 5 2015-03-18

English

Subject field(s)
  • Law of Estates (common law)
  • Property Law (common law)
CONT

By a codicil to her will she devised and bequeathed certain real and personal property to her trustees upon trust for conversion and to divide the net proceeds into two equal parts and directed them to hold one of such equal parts...

Key term(s)
  • conversion trust

French

Domaine(s)
  • Droit successoral (common law)
  • Droit des biens et de la propriété (common law)
DEF

Fiducie en vertu de laquelle le fiduciaire est chargé de convertir en un autre bien celui qui lui est remis en fiducie.

OBS

L'obligation de convertir peut être explicitement imposée par l'acte constituant la fiducie ou implicitement imposée lorsque le bien remis en fiducie n'est pas de nature à convenir à l'exécution de la fiducie.

Spanish

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Record 6 2013-05-15

English

Subject field(s)
  • PAJLO
  • Property Law (common law)
  • Law of Estates (common law)
DEF

A means of making a will take effect as if it had been written not at the date when it was written, but at the subsequent date of republication. (Mellows, "The Law of Succession", 3rd ed., 1977, p. 136)

OBS

A testator may "republish" a will or codicil. The term "republication" has been an anachronism since section 13 of the Wills Act 1837 made publication of a will unnecessary. It might be better if the term "confirmation" came into general use instead, because this is the sense in which republication has been used since 1837. The difference between revival and republication is that the former revives a revoked will or codicil whereas the latter confirms an unrevoked will or codicil.("Parry & Clark on the Law of Succession", 7th ed., 1977, p. 63)

French

Domaine(s)
  • PAJLO
  • Droit des biens et de la propriété (common law)
  • Droit successoral (common law)
OBS

confirmation : terme normalisé par le Comité de normalisation dans le cadre du Programme national de l'administration de la justice dans les deux langues officielles (PAJLO).

Spanish

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Record 7 2013-05-15

English

Subject field(s)
  • PAJLO
  • Property Law (common law)
  • Law of Estates (common law)
DEF

The recall of some power, authority, or thing granted, or a destroying or making void of some deed that has existence until the act of revocation made it void. (Black’s, 5th ed., 1979, p. 1187)

CONT

Revocation may be effected by the destruction of the will, or by the execution of another will or codicil, or as a result of marriage.(Curzon, A Dictionary of Law, 1979, p. 299)

French

Domaine(s)
  • PAJLO
  • Droit des biens et de la propriété (common law)
  • Droit successoral (common law)
OBS

révocation : le terme a de multiples emplois; il s'applique notamment aux lettres successorales et aux offres (revocation of offer).

OBS

révocation : terme normalisé par le Comité de normalisation dans le cadre du Programme national de l'administration de la justice dans les deux langues officielles (PAJLO).

Spanish

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Record 8 2013-03-06

English

Subject field(s)
  • PAJLO
  • Property Law (common law)
  • Law of Estates (common law)
CONT

Where a testator by codicil appoints a new executor without revoking the appointment contained in his will the persons named in both will and codicil are entitled to joint probate.("Canadian Encyclopedic Digest(Ontario) ", 2nd ed., v. 8, 1952, p. 125)

French

Domaine(s)
  • PAJLO
  • Droit des biens et de la propriété (common law)
  • Droit successoral (common law)
OBS

lettres d'homologation communes : terme normalisé par le Comité de normalisation dans le cadre du Programme national de l'administration de la justice dans les deux langues officielles (PAJLO).

OBS

lettres d'homologation communes : terme habituellement utilisé au pluriel dans ce contexte.

Key term(s)
  • lettre d'homologation commune

Spanish

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Record 9 2012-10-24

English

Subject field(s)
  • PAJLO
  • Law of Estates (common law)
DEF

A testamentary document which supplements, explains, modifies or substracts from a will bearing an earlier date. (Oosterhoff, Cases and Materials on Wills and Successions, 1980, p. 10)

French

Domaine(s)
  • PAJLO
  • Droit successoral (common law)
OBS

codicille : terme normalisé par le Comité de normalisation dans le cadre du Programme national de l'administration de la justice dans les deux langues officielles (PAJLO).

Spanish

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Record 10 2012-10-19

English

Subject field(s)
  • PAJLO
  • Law of Estates (common law)
CONT

Effect of acceleration on class-closing. In the case of a gift to A for life with remainder to a class, if the life estate is revoked by codicil, the court construes the testamentary dispositions as a whole in order to determine whether the codicil has altered the date of distribution among the members of the class and thereby brought forward the time for class-closing.(Theobald on Wills, 14th ed., 1982, p. 779)

French

Domaine(s)
  • PAJLO
  • Droit successoral (common law)
OBS

fermeture de la catégorie : terme normalisé par le Comité de normalisation dans le cadre du Programme national de l'administration de la justice dans les deux langues officielles (PAJLO).

Spanish

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Record 11 2012-10-16

English

Subject field(s)
  • PAJLO
  • Law of Estates (common law)
OBS

Revocation of the whole or part of a will or codicil by another will or codicil, or by writing declaring an intention to revoke, or by destruction, requires an intention to revoke. The testator's intention to revoke may be absolute or conditional. If it is absolute, revocation takes place immediately. If it is conditional, revocation does not take place unless the condition is fulfilled. Often the condition makes revocation dependent upon the validity of another will or codicil and this particular type of conditional revocation has in the past been referred to as the doctrine of dependent relative revocation. However it seems preferable to use the less cumbersome term conditional revocation in all cases.(Theobald on Wills, 14th ed., 1982, p. 80)

French

Domaine(s)
  • PAJLO
  • Droit successoral (common law)
OBS

révocation conditionnelle : terme normalisé par le Comité de normalisation dans le cadre du Programme national de l'administration de la justice dans les deux langues officielles (PAJLO).

Spanish

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Record 12 2004-05-18

English

Subject field(s)
  • Law of Estates (common law)
OBS

Where a testator has revoked his will and wishes later to restore it to effect, he may revive it by re-execution with appropriate formalities or by a subsequent codicil showing intention to revive.(Curzon, A Dictionary of Law, 1979, p. 299)

French

Domaine(s)
  • Droit successoral (common law)
OBS

On peut également rendre le verbe anglais «revive» par «revivre», surtout lorsqu'on parle des testaments. Ex. : «Le testament revit comme s'il n'avait jamais été révoqué», «la destruction matérielle du second testament fait revivre le premier».

OBS

remettre en vigueur : terme normalisé par le Comité de normalisation dans le cadre du Programme national de l'administration de la justice dans les deux langues officielles (PAJLO).

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Derecho hereditario (common law)
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Record 13 2004-05-06

English

Subject field(s)
  • Law of Estates (common law)
CONT

Assume... that another testator wishes his unrevoked will to take effect as if it had been written not on the date on which it was written, but rather on a subsequent date. He may republish the will. (Curzon, "Law of Succession", 1976, p. 68)

OBS

A codicil, or a subsequent will, may republish a prior will but to do so it must contain either an express republication, or some mention of the former will from which may be gathered an intention to republish it.("Stroud's Judicial Dictionary of Words and Phrases", 4th ed., 1971, p. 2348)

French

Domaine(s)
  • Droit successoral (common law)
OBS

confirmer : terme normalisé par le Comité de normalisation dans le cadre du Programme national de l'administration de la justice dans les deux langues officielles (PAJLO).

Spanish

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Record 14 2001-09-20

English

Subject field(s)
  • Law of Estates (common law)
CONT

An important point not to be forgotten is that, since the method prescribed by the section for revival is re-execution or a codicil expressing an intention to revive, a testator cannot revive a revoked will simply by destroying or "revoking" the will or codicil which revoked it.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Droit successoral (common law)
OBS

révoquer : Annuler (un acte juridique) au moyen de formalités déterminées.

OBS

codicille : [...] Acte postérieur à un testament qui modifie, complète ou annule ce testament.

Spanish

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Record 15 2001-08-20

English

Subject field(s)
  • Law of Estates (common law)
CONT

The republication of a will or codicil arises where it is re-executed by the testator as where it has been revoked and he wishes to revive it.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Droit successoral (common law)
CONT

Un testament qui est remis en vigueur ou fait l'objet d'une nouvelle signature par codicille est réputé avoir été fait à la date à laquelle il a été remis en vigueur ou a fait l'objet de la nouvelle signature.

Spanish

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Record 16 2001-06-28

English

Subject field(s)
  • Law of Estates (common law)
CONT

Though a confirmation of a will by a codicil may have the effect of confirming it as altered by unattested additions or of confirming a previous codicil with unattested alterations... there must be express reference to an intermediate codicil containing an invalid disposition in order to give effect to it.... [In on case] the intermediate codicil directed after-acquired realty to be sold and the proceeds divided in the same way as the proceeds of his other realty and the codicil was witnessed by two of the donees of such proceeds in the will, it was held that the last codicil did not operate to re-publish the intermediate codicil and the shares of the two donees in the proceeds of the after-acquired property fell into residue.

OBS

a codicil

Key term(s)
  • republish

French

Domaine(s)
  • Droit successoral (common law)
OBS

un codicille

OBS

rétablir : Établir de nouveau (ce qui a été oublié, changé, altéré).

OBS

rétablir quelque chose : Le faire exister de nouveau, le remettre en vigueur.

OBS

codicille : [...] Acte postérieur à un testament qui modifie, complète ou annule ce testament.

Spanish

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Record 17 2001-06-28

English

Subject field(s)
  • Law of Estates (common law)
CONT

Where a testator has revoked his will and wishes later to restore it to effect, he may revive it by re-execution with appropriate formalities or by subsequent codicil.

CONT

The problem that usually confronts a Court of Probate to determine whether a revoked will is revived or not is often a difficult one of construction to be sure that the codicil shows the necessary "intention to revive". It seems that the codicil must make some clear allusion to at least one of the provisions of the revoked will in order for it to be said that the codicil shows a sufficient intention to revive.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Droit successoral (common law)
CONT

Un testament [...] qui a été révoqué [...] n'est remis en vigueur que [...] par un testament rédigé conformément aux dispositions de la présente loi [...]

Spanish

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Record 18 2001-06-28

English

Subject field(s)
  • Law of Estates (common law)
CONT

The revival of a revoked will does not necessarily imply the revival of all previous codicils to such will, the question being one of intention.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Droit successoral (common law)
OBS

renouvellement : Remise en vigueur dans les mêmes conditions.

OBS

codicille : [...] Acte postérieur à un testament qui modifie, complète ou annule ce testament.

Spanish

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Record 19 2001-06-28

English

Subject field(s)
  • Law of Estates (common law)
CONT

[Republication is] the re-execution by the testator of a will or codicil previously revoked.

CONT

The distinction between revival and republication is that the former restores a revoked will and the latter confirms an unrevoked will so as to cause it to operate as if executed on the date of republication. Republication by re-execution has been frequently used in order to validate unattested previous alterations.

OBS

of a will

Key term(s)
  • reexecution

French

Domaine(s)
  • Droit successoral (common law)
OBS

d'un testament

OBS

souscription : Action de souscrire; signature mise au-dessus d'un acte pour l'approuver.

OBS

testament : Acte unilatéral et solennel, révocable jusqu'au décès de son auteur, par lequel celui-ci dispose de tout ou partie des biens qu'il laissera en mourant.

Spanish

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Record 20 2001-06-28

English

Subject field(s)
  • Law of Estates (common law)
CONT

Where a testator executed a codicil altering but otherwise confirming his will and later re-executed the will on the supposition that its attestation clause was defective, and solely for that reason and he did not re-execute the codicil or refer to it, it was held that the re-execution of a will extends to and republishes a codicil unless a contrary intention appears.

OBS

a codicil

Key term(s)
  • reexecute

French

Domaine(s)
  • Droit successoral (common law)
OBS

un codicille

OBS

souscription : Action de souscrire; signature mise au-dessous d'un acte pour l'approuver.

OBS

de nouveau : Pour la seconde fois, une fois de plus.

OBS

codicille : [...] acte postérieur à un testament qui modifie, complète ou annule ce testament.

Spanish

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Record 21 2001-05-18

English

Subject field(s)
  • Law of Estates (common law)
CONT

Instead of going through the exercise of preparing an entire new Will, a person can make a minor change in the original Will by executing a codicil... When a testator dies, his last Will and Testament is not only the original Will but also includes all codicils executed after the Will.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Droit successoral (common law)
CONT

Un codicille est un additif à un testament, dont les termes ajoutent quelque chose ou modifient une partie de l'acte auquel il est relié. Un codicille doit être fait (signé et attesté par des témoins) de la même manière qu'un testament.

Spanish

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Record 22 1999-01-13

English

Subject field(s)
  • Law of Estates (common law)
CONT

Section 6 of the Wills Act provides that every will re-executed or republished, or revived by any codicil, shall for the purposes of the Act be deemed to have been made at the time at which the will was so re-executed, republished or revised.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Droit successoral (common law)
CONT

[...] la rétractation peut avoir pour but de faire revivre le testament primitif, mais aussi de révoquer simplement le testament précédent sans rétablir le testament primitif [...]

Spanish

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Record 23 1995-07-10

English

Subject field(s)
  • Law of Succession (civil law)
  • Law of Estates (common law)
CONT

... a codicil to a will is to be construed in light of the facts and circumstances which existed when the codicil was made, but such facts are not often allowed to affect the construction of the will itself if they were not in existence when the will was made.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Droit successoral (droit civil)
  • Droit successoral (common law)
OBS

interpréter : Expliquer, rendre clair (ce qui est obscur dans un texte).

OBS

codicille : Acte postérieur à un testament qui modifie, complète ou annule ce testament.

Spanish

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Record 24 1995-07-10

English

Subject field(s)
  • Law of Estates (common law)
CONT

Republication may... save a bequest that would otherwise have failed by reason of the beneficiary having witnessed the attestation of the will, because a gift to an attesting witness of a will, though invalid if the will had stood alone, is valid if by a subsequent codicil not attested by the legatee the will has been republished.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Droit successoral (common law)
CONT

Un codicille est un additif à un testament, dont les termes ajoutent quelque chose ou modifient une partie de l'acte auquel il est relié. Un codicille doit être fait (signé et attesté par des témoins) de la même manière qu'un testament.

Spanish

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Record 25 1994-02-10

English

Subject field(s)
  • Law of Estates (common law)

French

Domaine(s)
  • Droit successoral (common law)
OBS

passation : équivalent de «execution» normalisé dans le cadre du PAJLO

Spanish

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Record 26 1982-10-08

English

Subject field(s)
  • Law of Succession (civil law)
CONT

A will and codicils should generally speaking be proved at the same time, and by the same Court. But when one only of two codicils was in dispute and an urgent need was shown for a grant to preserve the assets, probate of the will and first codicil was granted on the undertaking of the executors not to dispose of the property covered by the disputed codicil except to the extent necessary for the purpose of preserving it, as this course was obviously preferable to the appointment of an administrator pendente lite.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Droit successoral (droit civil)
OBS

vérifier : Reconnaître ou faire reconnaître une chose pour vraie par l'examen, l'expérience, ou en la vérifiant.

OBS

codicille: Acte postérieur à un testament qui modifie, complète ou annule ce testament.

Spanish

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