Sadler v. Sadler

Citations

• 60 Miss. 251

Syllabus

<p>1. Nuncupative Will. Land.</p> <p>Under the statutes of this State, as at common law, land cannot pass under a nuncupative will.</p> <p>2. Same.- Testamentary words. Time when spoken.</p> <p>Whether the words must he spoken so shortly before death as to afford no convenient time to write them. Quaere?</p> <p>3. Same. Last sickness. Construction of statute.</p> <p>■ Semble, that the statutory “last sickness” in which the words must be spoken, would not cover a lingering disease .which did not incapacitate.</p>