nuncupative

"Of course, that means he was incompetent to represent the Institute, thus all claims against us for whatever he did are nuncupative."

A minority of states even recognize the validity of nuncupative wills, which are expressed orally.

Nuncupative and holographic wills are valid in some states, but are forbidden in others.

Nuncupative wills are not recognized.

A nuncupative legacy is good to the amount of £100 Scots (£8, 6s.

A few U.S. states permit nuncupative wills made by military personnel on active duty.

This last will had been a nuncupative one and Lady Mildmay ultimately won an equal share of the inheritance.

A minority of U.S. states (approximately 20 as of 2009), permit nuncupative wills under certain circumstances.

A minority of jurisdictions even recognize the validity of nuncupative wills (oral wills), particularly for military personnel or merchant sailors.

Sections 18 through 20 provide rules for nuncupative (oral) wills for personal estates valued at over 30 pounds may be only made during the last illness of a testator.

Up to 1838 a nuncupative or oral will was sufficient, subject, where the gift was of £30 or more, to the restrictions contained in the Statute of Frauds.

He left a nuncupative will, dated 14 April 1632, by which he bequeathed to the library of Sion College all his mathematical books, astronomical instruments, notes, maps, and a brass clock.

Wills were normally made shortly before death, as many a shaky signature can testify; some people left it so late that they could only make an oral statement (or nuncupative will), which was written down and sworn to by witnesses.

Some wills, nuncupative wills as they are called, were memorised by the witnesses and committed to paper later on - a reminder that memories were better trained three or four hundred years ago than they are today.

An oral will (or nuncupative will) is a will that has been delivered orally (that is, in speech) to witnesses, as opposed to the usual form of wills, which is written and according to a proper format.

Nuncupative wills - wills made in emergencies and based on the recollections of those who had gathered round the dying person (as opposed wills dictated more formally by the testator with or without the assistance of a scribe) - quite frequently omit the pious preamble.