Tennessee Code 32-1-109 – Requisites of will executed on or before February 15, 1941
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Terms Used In Tennessee Code 32-1-109
- Devise: To gift property by will.
- Lands: includes lands, tenements and hereditaments, and all rights thereto and interests therein, equitable as well as legal. See Tennessee Code 1-3-105
- Person: includes either man or woman, single or married. See Tennessee Code 32-1-101
- signed: includes a mark, the name being written near the mark and witnessed, or any other symbol or methodology executed or adopted by a party with intention to authenticate a writing or record, regardless of being witnessed. See Tennessee Code 1-3-105
- Testator: A male person who leaves a will at death.
- Will: includes codicil. See Tennessee Code 32-1-101
- written: includes printing, typewriting, engraving, lithography, and any other mode of representing words and letters. See Tennessee Code 1-3-105
No last will or testament executed on or before February 15, 1941, shall be good or sufficient to convey or give an estate in lands, unless written in the testator‘s lifetime, and signed by the testator, or by some other person in the testator’s presence and by the testator’s direction, and subscribed in the testator’s presence by two (2) witnesses at least, neither of whom is interested in the devise of the lands.