Wills

  1. Law
  2. US Virgin Islands Code
  3. Decedents' Estates and Fiduciary Relations
  4. Decedents' Estates
  5. Wills

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Definitions

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Capacity to devise

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Real property which may be devised

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Capacity to take real property by devise

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Statutory power to take possession, and to sell, mortgage or lease real property in absence of valid power in will

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Construction of will of real estate

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Capacity to make wills of personal estate

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Nuncupative or holographic wills

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Devise or bequest to certain societies, associations, corporations or purposes

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Election by surviving spouse regarding share

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Compromise of controversies where interests of infants, incompetents or persons unknown or not in being are or may be affected

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Mortgages and liens on or pledges of personal property specifically bequeathed

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Manner of execution of will

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Witnesses to will to write names and places of residence

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Validity of wills executed without the Islands

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Wills which may be proved

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Effect of change of residence

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Child born after making of will

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Devise or bequest to subscribing witness

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Action by after-born child, or by subscribing witness

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Devise or bequest to descendant or to relative not to lapse

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Safe keeping of wills by district court

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Sealing and indorsing wills received for safe keeping

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Delivery of wills received for safe keeping

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Opening wills received by court for safe keeping

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Revocation and cancellation of written wills

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Repealed. July 7, 1958, No. 349, § 2, Sess. L. 1958, p. 129. [Repealed.]

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Bond or agreement to convey property devised or bequeathed

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Charge or incumbrance not a revocation

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Conveyance, when not deemed a revocation

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Conveyance, when deemed a revocation

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Effect of cancellation of revocation of second will

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Record of wills of real property

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Index of wills by recorder of deeds

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Recording will established or proved without the Territory

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Authentication of papers from without the Territory

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Validity of purchase notwithstanding devise

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Validity and effect of testamentary dispositions

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Issue to take per stirpes

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Testamentary directions to purchase annuities

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Payment of legacies out of real property not specifically devised

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Devise or bequest to unincorporated association; trust to preserve property