Talk:Legal history of wills

Catholic persecution in England
Apparently Catholics were not able to make a will during the period in which they suffered persectution, see: Butler v. Moore. Needs documenting here. Cutler 12:50, 10 July 2006 (UTC)

Merge from Will (law)/International legal history
I already changed the title of this page so that it was no longer just a subpage, in accordance with Wikipedia policy. I think that all the content of both pages should be put together to give a cohesive overall view of the legal history of wills, rather than having it spread out across two pages. --Eastlaw 07:21, 12 September 2007 (UTC)


 * Merge - but do keep all the relevant content with crisp copyediting. I am always upset with editors who delete 1911 material rather than deal with it.Cutler 08:35, 12 September 2007 (UTC)
 * Cutler, just FYI, I have no intention of deleting any useful information from either article. The 1911 Britannica contains a lot of  valuable information, regardless of any historical or cultural biases it may have.  Considering how much the law and the legal profession rely on custom and tradition, I think there is a wealth of good material here which can be readily salvaged and copyedited.  Besides, I am something of an inclusionist, and I don't like to remove text when the article could be better served by good editing.  Any assistance you could offer would be much appreciated.  --Eastlaw 08:55, 12 September 2007 (UTC)
 * Sounds good. Happy to try to help though I do despair over many of the "overview" law articles. I did have it in mind to try to sort out jury but then thought I might just do England and Wales. Still not got round to it though.Cutler 20:12, 12 September 2007 (UTC)

Vermont allows wills to be signed with only two witnesses. 14 V.S.A. § 5 63.133.179.131 (talk) 22:49, 11 December 2009 (UTC)

OCR Errors
The article is full of OCR errors: much of the Latin is corrupt or gobbledygook. I'd say this article needs correcting by someone with a smattering of legal historical knowledge. Online sources are not always to be trusted, as a lot of them have themselves been untrustworthily translated via OCR. CPKS (talk) 15:56, 15 October 2009 (UTC)