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WILLS (SOLDIERS AND SAILORS) ACT 1918

WILLS (SOLDIERS AND SAILORS) ACT 1918 - LONG TITLE

An Act to amend the Law with respect to Testamentary Dispositions
by Soldiers and Sailors.
[6th February 1918]
Explanation of s.11 of Wills Act. <1837 (c.26)

WILLS (SOLDIERS AND SAILORS) ACT 1918 - SECT 1

1. In order to remove doubts as to the construction of the Wills
Act, 1837, it is hereby declared and enacted that section eleven of
that Act authorises and always has authorised any soldier being in
actual military service, or any mariner or seaman being at sea, to
dispose of his personal estate as he might have done before the
passing of that Act, though under the age of [eighteen years].

WILLS (SOLDIERS AND SAILORS) ACT 1918 - SECT 2
Extension of s.11 of Wills Act, 1837.

2. Section eleven of the Wills Act, 1837, shall extend to any
member of His Majesty's naval or marine forces not only when he is
at sea but also when he is so circumstanced that if he were a
soldier he would be in actual military service within the meaning
of that section.

WILLS (SOLDIERS AND SAILORS) ACT 1918 - SECT 3
Validity of testamentary dispositions of real property made by
soldiers and sailors.

3.(1) A testamentary disposition of any real estate in England or
Ireland made by a person to whom section eleven of the Wills Act,
1837, applies, and who dies after the passing of this Act, shall,
notwithstanding that the person making the disposition was at the
time of making it under [eighteen years] of age or that the
disposition has not been made in such manner or form as was at
the passing of this Act required by law, be valid in any case
where the person making the disposition was of such age and the
disposition has been made in such manner and form that if the
disposition had been a disposition of personal estate made by such
a person domiciled in England or Ireland it would have been valid.

(2) ...

Power to appoint testamentary guardians.

WILLS (SOLDIERS AND SAILORS) ACT 1918 - SECT 4

4. Where any person dies after the passing of this Act having made
a will which is or which, if it had been a disposition of
property, would have been rendered valid by section eleven of the
Wills Act, 1837, any appointment contained in that will of any
person as guardian of the infant children of the testator shall be
of full force and effect.

WILLS (SOLDIERS AND SAILORS) ACT 1918 - SECT 5
Short title and interpretation.

5.(1) This Act may be cited as the Wills (Soldiers and Sailors)
Act, 1918.

(2) For the purposes of section eleven of the Wills Act, 1837, and
this Act the expression "soldier" includes a member of the Air
Force, and references in this Act to the said section eleven
include a reference to that section as explained and extended by
this Act.