Legal Dictionary of Pakistan
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nuncupative
adj. [fr. Latin nuncupare "to name"] Stated by spoken word; declared orally.
nuncupative will
. An oral will made in contemplation of imminent death from an injury recently incurred. ( Nuncupative wills are invalid in most states, but in those states allowing them, the amount that may be conveyed is usu. limited by statute, and they traditionally apply only to personal property. - Also termed oral will; unwritten will; verbal will. "Nuncupative (i.e., oral) wills are by statute in almost all States required to be proved by two (sometimes three) witnesses, who were present and heard the testamentary words." John H. Wigmore, A Students' Textbook of the Law of Evidence 299 (1935)