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2025 Delaware Code
Title 12 - Decedents' Estates and Fiduciary Relations
Chapter 2. GENERAL PROVISIONS
Subchapter I. Tenets and Principles
§ 202. Requisites and execution of will.
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§ 202. Requisites and execution of will.
(a) Every will, whether of personal or real estate, must be:
(1) In writing and signed by the testator or by some person subscribing the testator's name in the testator's presence and by the testator's express direction; and
(2) Subject to § 1306 of this title, attested and subscribed in testator's presence by 2 or more credible witnesses.
(b) Any will not complying with subsection (a) of this section shall be void.
Code 1852, § 1645; Code 1915, § 3241; Code 1935, § 3705; 12 Del. C. 1953, § 102; 59 Del. Laws, c. 384, § 1; 70 Del. Laws, c. 186, § 1;
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