Repealed or not in force · As amended up to 2026-08
II. And it is hereby enacted, that an Act passed in the thirty-second year of the reign of King Henry the Eighth, intituled "The Act of Wills, "Wards and primer seisins, whereby a man may devise two parts of his "land;" and alo an Act passed in the thirty-fourth and thirty-fifth years of the reign of the said King Henry the Eighth, intituled "The Bill concering "the explanation of Wills," and also an Act passed in the Parliament of Ireland in the tenth year of the reign of King Charles the First, Intituled "An Act "how Lands. Tenements, &c. may be disposed by will or otherwise, and con- "cerning wards and primer seisins;' and also so much of an Act passed in the Parliament of Ireland in the seventh year of the reign of King William the Third, intituled "An Act prevention of Frauds and Perjuries as relates to "devises or bequests of lands or tenements, or to the revocation or alteration "of any devise in writing of any lands, tenements or hereditaments, or any "clause thereof, or to the devise of any estate pur autre vie, or to any such "estate being assets or to nuncupative wills, or to the repeal, altering or "changing of any will in writing concerning any goods or chattels or personal "estate, or any clause, devise or bequest therein;" and also so much of an Act passed in the fourth and fifth year of the reign of Queen Anne, entituled "An "Act for the amendment of the Law and the better advancement of Justice;" and of an Act passed in the Parliament of Ireland in the sixth year of the reign of Queen Anne, intituled "An Act for the amendment of the Law and the better advancement of justice" as relates to witnesses to nuncupative wills; and so far as the following Acts may be construed to have any operation within the territories of the East India Company, so much of an Act passed in the fourteenth year of the reign of King George the Second, intituled "An Act to amend the Law concerning "common recoveries," and to explain and amend an Act made in the twenty-ninth year of the reign of King Charles the Second, intituled "An Act for prevention of frauds and perjuries" as relates to estates pur autre vie ; and also and Act passed in the twenty-
fifth year of the reign of King George the Second, intituled "An Act for avoiding and putting an end "to certain doubts and questions relating to the attestation of wills and codicils "concerning real estates in that part of Great Britain called England, and in His "Majesty's colonies and plantations in America," except so far as relates to His Majesty's Colonies and plantations in America, and also an Act passed in the Parliament of Ireland in the same twenty-fifth year of the reign of King George the Second, intituled "An Act for the avoiding and putting an end to "certain doubts and questions relating to the attestations of wills and codicils "concerning real estates;" shall from the passing of this Act cease to have effect in the territories of the East India Company, except so far as the same Acts or any of them respectively relate to any wills or estates pur autre vie to which this Act does not extend.
Source: India Code