91-5-17 - Parties in interest to nuncupative will to be cited.
§ 91-5-17. Parties in interest to nuncupative will to be cited.
The probate of any nuncupative will shall not be taken, or letters testamentary granted thereon, until after the expiration of fourteen days from the time of the decease of the testator or testatrix, nor until the widow, if any, and next of kin, if resident in this state, have been summoned to contest the same if they think proper.
Sources: Codes, Hutchinson's 1848, ch. 49, art. 1 (18); 1857, ch. 60, art. 40; 1871, § 2394; 1880, § 1268; 1892, § 4494; 1906, § 5084; Hemingway's 1917, § 3372; 1930, § 3557; 1942, § 664.