WILLS ACT 1959 (REVISED 1988)

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1 -1. Short title and application.

2 -2. Interpretation and application.

3 -3. Property disposable by will.

4 -4. Will of infant invalid.

5 -5. Mode of execution.

6 -6. Execution of appointment by will.

7 -7. Publication of will not necessary.

8 -8. Will not to be invalidated by reason of incompetency of attesting witness.

9 -9. Gifts to an attesting witness or to wife or husband of attesting witness to be void.

10 -10. Creditor attesting a will charging estate with debts shall be admitted a witness.

11 -11. Executor not incompetent to be a witness.

12 -12. Will to be revoked by marriage except in certain cases.

13 -13. No will to be revoked by presumption from altered circumstances.

14 -14. Revocation of will.

15 -15. Effect of obliteration, interlineation or alteration.

16 -16. Revival of revoked will.

17 -17. Subsequent conveyance or other acts not to prevent operation of will.

18 -18. Wills shall be construed to speak from the death of the testator.

19 -19. Residuary devises or bequests shall include estates comprised in lapsed and void devises or bequests.

20 -20. General devise or bequest of property shall include property over which the testator has general power of appointment.

21 -21. Devise or bequest without words of limitation.

22 -22. Construction of words importing want or failure of issue.

23 -23. Devise or bequest of property to trustee or executor.

24 -24. Devise or bequest of property to trustee without limitation.

25 -25. Devises or bequests to children or other issue who leave issue living at the testator& apos;s death shall not lapse.

26 -26. Privileged wills of soldiers, airmen and sailors.

27 -27. Wills executed abroad.

28 -28. Wills by citizens executed in Malaysia.

29 -29. Change of domicile not to invalidate will.

30 -30. Construction of wills.

31 -31. Omitted.

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