attesting, or the wife or husband of that person, or any person claiming under
either of them.
(2) A legatee under a will shall not lose his or her legacy by attesting
a codicil which confirms the will.
55.
Witness not disqualified by interest or by being executor.
No person, by reason of interest in, or of his or her being an executor of, a
will, is disqualified as a witness to prove the execution of the will or to prove
the validity or invalidity of the will.
56.
Revocation of will by testator’s marriage.
(1) Every will shall be revoked by the marriage of the maker, except
a will made in exercise of a power of appointment, when the property over
which the power of appointment is exercised would not, in default of the
appointment, pass to his or her executor or administrator or to the person
entitled in case of intestacy.
(2) Where a person is invested with power to determine the
disposition of property of which he or she is not the owner, he or she is said
to have power to appoint that property.
57.
Revocation of unprivileged will or codicil.
No unprivileged will or codicil, nor any part thereof, shall be revoked
otherwise than by marriage, or by another will or codicil or by some writing
declaring an intention to revoke the unprivileged will or codicil, and executed
in the manner in which an unprivileged will is in this Act required to be
executed, or by the burning, tearing or otherwise destroying of the will or
codicil by the testator, or by some person in his or her presence and by his or
her direction, with the intention of revoking it.
58.
Effect of alteration in unprivileged will.
No obliteration, interlineation or other alteration made in any unprivileged
will after the execution of the will shall have any effect, except so far as the
words or meaning of the will have been thereby rendered illegible or
undiscernible, unless the alteration is executed in like manner as is in this Act
required for the execution of the will; except that the will, as so altered, shall
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