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The result is, that the shares of Elizabeth and William Arthur, who died in the testator's lifetime, lapsed and fell into the residue, the will being brought within the operation of the Wills Act by force of the afterdated codicil.
Source: wiktionary
His afterdated Commission as Lieutenant, signed by Sir George Arthur on June lst, 1838, hangs in the hall at Colborne Lodge and on the 7th of December he had led the right wing of the scouting party up Yonge Street to Montgomery's Tavern to attack the rebels; […]
Source: wiktionary
The board of elections found that 10 names had been stricken out, one name was stricken out as afterdated and 139 names were stricken out as predated.
Source: wiktionary
At a hearing before the Register of Wills of Delaware County, appellant sought to establish that the date on the second page of the appellant sought to establish that the date on the second page of the after-dated will had been altered and that the dispositive provisions on the first page of that will had been prepared after the execution of decedent's signature on page two.
Source: wiktionary
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