sound and disposing mind and memory

sound and disposing mind and memory
n.
Language often used in wills to mean the mental capacity necessary to create a will.

The Essential Law Dictionary. — Sphinx Publishing, An imprint of Sourcebooks, Inc. . 2008.

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  • sound and disposing mind and memory — Testamentary capacity. Such mind and memory as enables testator to know and understand business in which he is engaged at time of making will. Farmers Union Bank of Henning v. Johnson, 27 Tenn.App. 342, 181 S.W.2d 369, 374. See also capacity, and …   Black's law dictionary

  • disposing mind and memory — See: sound mind and memory Category: Wills, Trusts & Estates → Estates, Executors & Probate Court Category: Wills, Trusts & Estates → Wills Nolo’s Plain English Law Dictionary. Gerald N. Hill, Kathleen Thompson Hill. 2009 …   Law dictionary

  • disposing mind — A test of testamentary capacity, being a mind capable of knowing and understanding the disposition to be made of one s property by will and the persons upon whom bounty is to be bestowed, notwithstanding some element of mental unsoundness.… …   Ballentine's law dictionary

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