This expression was substituted for the expression " Presidency of Madras " by the Tamil Nadu Adaptation of L… — T.N. Act V

This expression was substituted for the expression " Presidency of Madras " by the Tamil Nadu Adaptation of Laws Order, 1970, w&h was deemed to have come into force on the 14th January 1969.

1 This expression was substituted for the expression " Presidency of Madras " by the Tamil Nadu Adaptation of Laws Order, 1970, w&h was deemed to have come into force on the 14th January 1969. a These words were substituted for the words "said Presidency" by paragraph 4 of, and the Sche,dule to, iid. Lncorporation of pepera by f ppy referenoe. Witness not disqualified by intsrest or by being exooutor. Revocation of will or codicil. l ffeo t of obliteration, interlineation or alteration in a will. Revival of e will or codicil. . [I898 : .I'.N. Aet l? If a testator, in a will or codicil duly attested, refers to any other document then actuallywritten, as expressing any part of his intentions, such documents shall be coilsidered as forming g part of the will or codicil in which it is referred to. No pcrson, by reason of interest in, or of his being an executor of a will, is disqualified as a witness to prove the execution of tlie will or to prove the validity or invalidity thereof. No will or coclicil, nor any part thereof, shall be revoked otherwise than by another will or codicil, or by some writing clccluring an illtentioil to revoke the same and excouted in the manner in which a will is hercilibcfbre required to be cxccuted, or by the burning, tearing or otherwise destroying the same by the tcstator, or by somc person in his presence and by his direction, with the intention of revoking the same. No obliteration, interlineation or other alteration made in any will after the execution thereof shall have any affect, except so far as the words or meaning of the will shall have been thereby rendered illegible or undiscernible, unless such alteration shall be executed in like manner as hereinbefore is required for the execution of thc will ; ssvc that the will, as so altereci, shall be deemed to be duly executed if the signature of the sttahabor and the subscription of the witnesses be made in the margin or on some other part of the will opposite or near to such alteration, or at the foot or end of or opposite to a memorandum referring to such alteration, and written at the end or some other part of the will. No will or codicil, nor any part tihereof, which shall be in any manner revoked, shall be revived otherwise than by the re-execution thereof, or by a codicil executed in manner hereinbefore required, and ehowing an intention to revive the same ; and when any will or codioil, which shall bepartly revoked and afterwards wholly revoked, shall be revived, euoh

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