In Re Estate of Briggs

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• noting the absence of any words disclosing testamentary intent in the writer’s letter
• “The fundamental rule that testamentary intent is essential to the validity of a will applies to holographic wills.”
• validity of a will with respect to personalty governed by the laws of the place of testator’s last domicile, and with respect to realty, the laws of the place where the realty is situated; the place where the will was executed is without legal significance

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).