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INTESTABLE

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One who cannot law fully make a testament. 2. An infant, an insane person, or one civilly dead, cannot make a will, for want of capacity or understanding; a married woman cannot make such a will without some special authority, because she is under the power of her husband. They are all intestable. One who has not testamentary capacity; e.g., an infant, lunatic, or person … [Read more...]

INTERRUPTION

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The effect of some act or circumstance which stops the course of a prescription or act of limitation's. 2. Interruption of the use of a thing is natural or civil. Natural interruption is an interruption in fact, which takes place whenever by some act we cease truly to possess what we formerly possessed. A right is not interrupted by: mere trespassers, if the trespasser's were … [Read more...]

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