§ 33-6-1 Gifts to attesting witnesses
§ 33-6-2 Creditor attesting
§ 33-6-3 Death of attesting beneficiary in lifetime of testator
§ 33-6-4 Executor or trustee as witness
§ 33-6-5 Construction as to real estate within state
§ 33-6-6 Time from which will speaks
§ 33-6-7 Devise without words of limitation
§ 33-6-8 Devise to executor or trustee
§ 33-6-9 Gift for life with remainder to issue
§ 33-6-10 Limitation on fee tail
§ 33-6-11 Death of devisee in tail in lifetime of testator
§ 33-6-12 Commencement of income estate
§ 33-6-13 Apportionment on termination of income estate
§ 33-6-14 Suit for recovery of income from executor
§ 33-6-15 Interest on general pecuniary legacies
§ 33-6-16 Life estate or term for years in property consumed by use
§ 33-6-17 General devises and bequests
§ 33-6-18 Devise of lands of which testator is not seised
§ 33-6-19 Substitution of issue for beneficiary predeceasing testator
§ 33-6-20 Devisee or legatee predeceased without issue
§ 33-6-23 Pretermitted issue
§ 33-6-24 Apportionment of share taken by pretermitted child
§ 33-6-25 Repealed
§ 33-6-26 Intent of testator as to apportionment of debts
§ 33-6-27 Contribution by pretermitted issue to payment of debts
§ 33-6-28 Death or insolvency of beneficiary liable to contribution for debts
§ 33-6-29 Repealed
§ 33-6-30 Partial intestacy
§ 33-6-31 Passage of title by will – Recording
§ 33-6-32 Filing of original wills
§ 33-6-33 Gifts to trustee of existing trust
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Terms Used In Rhode Island General Laws > Chapter 33-6 - Proof and Construction of Wills

  • Amendment: A proposal to alter the text of a pending bill or other measure by striking out some of it, by inserting new language, or both. Before an amendment becomes part of the measure, thelegislature must agree to it.
  • Annuity: A periodic (usually annual) payment of a fixed sum of money for either the life of the recipient or for a fixed number of years. A series of payments under a contract from an insurance company, a trust company, or an individual. Annuity payments are made at regular intervals over a period of more than one full year.
  • Appropriation: The provision of funds, through an annual appropriations act or a permanent law, for federal agencies to make payments out of the Treasury for specified purposes. The formal federal spending process consists of two sequential steps: authorization
  • Bequeath: To gift property by will.
  • Bequest: Property gifted by will.
  • Codicil: An addition, change, or supplement to a will executed with the same formalities required for the will itself.
  • Devise: To gift property by will.
  • Evidence: Information presented in testimony or in documents that is used to persuade the fact finder (judge or jury) to decide the case for one side or the other.
  • Executor: A male person named in a will to carry out the decedent
  • Fee simple: Absolute title to property with no limitations or restrictions regarding the person who may inherit it.
  • Gift: A voluntary transfer or conveyance of property without consideration, or for less than full and adequate consideration based on fair market value.
  • in writing: include printing, engraving, lithographing, and photo-lithographing, and all other representations of words in letters of the usual form. See Rhode Island General Laws 43-3-16
  • Intestate: Dying without leaving a will.
  • Legacy: A gift of property made by will.
  • Legatee: A beneficiary of a decedent
  • Mortgage: The written agreement pledging property to a creditor as collateral for a loan.
  • person: may be construed to extend to and include co-partnerships and bodies corporate and politic. See Rhode Island General Laws 43-3-6
  • Personal property: All property that is not real property.
  • Probate: Proving a will
  • real estate: may be construed to include lands, tenements, and hereditaments and rights thereto and interests therein. See Rhode Island General Laws 43-3-10
  • Remainder: An interest in property that takes effect in the future at a specified time or after the occurrence of some event, such as the death of a life tenant.
  • Testator: A male person who leaves a will at death.
  • town: may be construed to include city; the words "town council" include city council; the words "town clerk" include city clerk; the words "ward clerk" include clerk of election district; the words "town treasurer" include city treasurer; and the words "town sergeant" include city sergeant. See Rhode Island General Laws 43-3-9
  • Trustee: A person or institution holding and administering property in trust.