Among them was the allegation "that the decedent was laboring under delusions amounting to insanity, and had not a disposing mind during the preparation, or at the time of the execution of the will.
The second witness said that he heard the decedent ask the first witness to sign it as a witness; and her husband swore that she asked both of the other witnesses to sign it.
The phrators of the decedentin a body were the mourners, and the members of the opposite phratry conducted the ceremonies.
The decedent left a son, but he was of another gens and consequently incapable of succeeding.
In virtue of such a descent they all bore the same gentile name, females as well as males, and were nearer in degree to the decedentthan the remaining gentiles.
And he said further," continued the man of the law, "that the suiciding decedent was probably afflicted with some species of psychical neurosis.
Now, sir, we have caused a search to be made in the records of the Probate Court of this County, and we find that the said decedent did in fact die intestate.
If a property right in a particular rule of income allotment in salvage proceedings vested at all, it would seem to have done so at the death of the decedent or testator.
Relinquishment at death, in consequence of the non-exercise in life, of a power to revoke a trust created by a decedent is likewise an appropriate subject of taxation.
The amendment required inclusion in the decedent's gross estate, for tax computation purposes, of property in respect of which the decedent exercised after 1930, by will, a nongeneral power of appointment created prior to that year.