74 examples of codicils in sentences

Next wo come to the interesting series of letters of 1815-16, published with the Memoir of Mr. Hodgson, to whom, along with Hobhouse and Scrope Davies, his lordship in a will and codicil leaves the management of his property.

A codicil is a supplement or addition to a will, either explaining or altering former dispositions; it may be written on the same or separate paper, and is to be witnessed and attested in the same manner as the original document. 2739.

A legacy left by will to any one would be cancelled by your leaving another legacy by a codicil to the same person, unless it is stated to be in addition to the former bequest. 2748.

After making one, which, as Sir John Hawkins informs us, extended no further than the promised annuity, Johnson's final disposition of his property was established by a Will and Codicil, of which copies are subjoined.

"Why, my lady, if my lord and my honored master's agreeable, I did think of making another codicil to master's will in order to dispose of it.

"My ladyMiss Emmy," said Johnson, eagerly, "my plan is, if my honored master's agreeableto make a codicil, and give my mite to a little Lady Emily Denbigh.

I have taken some pains to ascertain the amount, and I shall add a codicil to my will leaving an equal sum to George.

But there were many codicils.

The last codicil was dated immediately after the separation with Lady Monmouth.

One night, six months before, to alter a small bequest, he had carried the will up-stairs and written a rough draft of the new codicil.

My grandfather, Lord Privilege, had begun to take some interest in me; but before he died my uncle went to live with him, and so poisoned his mind against me that when the old lord's will was read it was found that £10,000 bequeathed to me had been cancelled by a codicil.

True, it would be an odd codicil to a will, for a slaveholder, after bequeathing to some of his children, all his slaves, to add a supplement, informing them that such and such and such of them were their brothers and sisters.

don't make a fuss You've mighty small matters to give; Your coral and jet, and ... there, thereyou can tack A codicil on, if you live.

My good executors, fulfil } I pray ye, fairly my goodwill } With first and second codicil, } And first, I give to dear Lord Hinton, At Twyford School, now not at Winton, One hundred guineas for a ring, Or some such memorandum thing, And truly much I should have blundered, Had I not given another hundred To Vere, Earl Powlett's second son, Who dearly loves a little fun.

It will be of great importance that I am in possession of his last will and codicils as soon as possibleno one can say that it does not contain among other things, many directions relative to his funeral.

There'll never be any codicil.

In 1720, he added several codicils to his will, and 'put his house in order;' and in November, 1721, he made his appearance in the house of lords, where, however, he took no prominent part in the business under discussion.

"Mr. Drucker (for the trustees of the Testator) said the late Lord Blythswood had made 51 oleograph codicils to his will, and the difficulty arose over two of them.

It was at Xmas that Miss Ethel found an old unposted letter of her grandmother's, Mrs. Newcome, asking her lawyer to add a codicil to her will leaving a legacy of £6000 to Clive.

That my father thought of this in later times is proved by the numerous bequests and codicils in his will.

There had been wrung from him a codicil which made the will still worse.

The Parliament was completely won; the right of representation (or remonstrance) was promised them; the will of Louis XIV. was as good as annulled; it was opened, it was read, and so were the two codicils.

There remained the codicils, which annulled in fact the Regent's authority.

When they returned to the Palace of Justice the codicils were puffed away like the will by the breath of popular favor.

Toward the end of Mrs. Jefferson Davis's life she added a codicil to her will, giving to a certain chapter of the Daughters of the Confederacy a number of very valuable relics of her husband, and of the short-lived Confederate Government.

74 examples of  codicils  in sentences