2021 Georgia Code
Title 53 - Wills, Trusts, and Administration of Estates
Chapter 4 - Wills
Article 5 - Revocation and Republication
§ 53-4-50. Republication of Revoked Will
A revoked will may be republished by a writing executed by the testator and subscribed and attested by witnesses with the same formality required for a will.
(Code 1981, §53-4-50, enacted by Ga. L. 1996, p. 504, § 10.)
Law reviews.- For annual survey of law of wills, trusts, guardianships, and fiduciary administration, see 56 Mercer L. Rev. 457 (2004).
RESEARCH REFERENCES
Am. Jur. 2d.
- 79 Am. Jur. 2d, Wills, §§ 597, 606 et seq.
C.J.S.- 95 C.J.S., Wills, §§ 431 et seq., 437 et seq.
ALR.
- Codicil as affecting application of statutory provision to will, or previous codicil not otherwise subject, or as obviating objections to lack of testamentary capacity, undue influence, or defective execution otherwise fatal to will, 87 A.L.R. 836.
Retrospective application of statute concerning execution of wills, 111 A.L.R. 910.
Admissibility of declarations by testator on issue of revocation of will, 172 A.L.R. 354.
Codicil as validating will or codicil which was invalid or inoperative at time of its purported execution, 21 A.L.R.2d 821.
Codicil as reviving revoked will or codicil, 33 A.L.R.2d 922.
Codicil as reviving or satisfied, bequest or devise, 58 A.L.R.2d 1072.
Revocation of will as affecting codicil and vice versa, 7 A.L.R.3d 1143.
