91-5-19 - Nuncupative will not to be proven after six months unless reduced to writing.
§ 91-5-19. Nuncupative will not to be proven after six months unless reduced to writing.
After six months have elapsed from the time of speaking the alleged testamentary words, testimony shall not be received to probate a nuncupative will unless the words, or the substance thereof, shall have been reduced to writing within six days after speaking the same.
Sources: Codes, Hutchinson's 1848, ch. 49, art. 1 (18); 1857, ch. 60, art. 39; 1871, § 2393; 1880, § 1267; 1892, § 4493; 1906, § 5083; Hemingway's 1917, § 3371; 1930, § 3558; 1942, § 665.