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court jurisdictiona court may limit a grant of representation which it has jurisdiction to make as follows1 where the will has been lost or mislaid
courts application for granta court may1 wherein a deceased person is proved whether by production of a will or authenticated copy of the will or by
application informationthe application must include information as tothe full name of the deceasedthe death and place of his deathwhether or not the
application for grant1 an application for a grant of representation representation means the probate of a will or the grant of letters of
protection of property of a deceased persona no person may take possession of or dispose of or otherwise intermeddle with any free property of a
investment of funds to provide for legacies and interest on legaciesa where a general legacy is given for life the sum bequeathed shall at or before
presumption of survivorshipwhere two or more persons have died in circumstances rendering it uncertain which of them survived the other or others the
abatement of legaciesa if the assets after the payment of debts necessary expenses and specific legacies are not sufficient to pay all the general
exceptions to the rule of lapsethere is no lapse in either of the following cases1 where the gift or disposition is made in discharge of a moral
uncertaintya gift or disposition not expressive of any definite intention shall be void for uncertainty ie a gift under a will fails where there is
ademptionif property which has been specifically bequeathed does not belong to the testator at the time of his death or has been converted into
causes of failure of legacies and gifts of residue1 ademptionif property which has been specifically bequeathed does not belong to the testator at
cumulative and substitutional legacies and deviseswhere a will makes two gifts of unequal amounts to the same person they are assumed in the absence
types of interest given under a willthe interest given in a legacy devise or gift of residue may be of the following kinds-1 vested a vested interest
a gift of residuewhere property is not given by a specific legacy nor by a general legacy it makes up the residue of the testators estate if the
types of gift by way of a willa a special or specific legacy is a testamentary gift of a particular part of the property of the testator which
characteristics of a will1 dispositionary a will disposes the deceasedrsquos property2 formality for a will to be valid it must be
revocation alteration and revival of a will1 a will may be revoked or altered by the maker of it at any time when he is competent to dispose of his
conditions of a willa written will is not valid unless it fulfills the following conditions1 the testator must sign the will or he must affix his
a valid willa will may be made orally it will not be valid unless1 it is made before two or more competent witnesses ie persons of sound mind and
willsa will is the legal declaration by a person of his wishes or intentions regarding the disposition of his property after his death duly made and
rules of intestacyleaves several wivesthe intestate leaves several wives married under any system of law which permits polygamy his personal and
the intestate leaves one surviving spouse and childrenthe surviving spouse is entitled toa the personal and household effects of the deceased
the intestate leaves one surviving spouse but no child or childrenthe surviving spouse is entitled to1 the personal and household effects of the
the intestate leaves no spouse but childrenthe net estate devolves upon the surviving children and is divided equally between them if any child has