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Proposed Mississippi Plain Language Model Jury Instructions - Civil 4908

Will Contests - Codicils - General Instruction

activein force · 2012-02-17 – presentas-observed

Statement of Law

A codicil is a document that is added to a will by the testator after the will has been

executed. A codicil may change, cancel, explain, add to, or take away from one or all of the

provisions of a will. A valid codicil must contain all of the necessary requirements that a valid

will must contain. A testator may execute a valid codicil to solve any defects or problems

contained in the execution of the original will.

General Instruction

If you find that it is more likely true than not true that the document executed by the

testator is a valid codicil or that the original will was re-executed by a valid codicil, then you

must return a verdict in favor of [name of proponent].

History

Proposed Mississippi Plain Language Model Jury Instructions - Civil 4908 (current as of February 17, 2012). Submitted in 2012 by the Mississippi Model Jury Instructions Commission (created by the Supreme Court of Mississippi by order of December 30, 2008) and published by the Court on courts.ms.gov. The Court states that these model jury instructions have not been adopted or approved by the Supreme Court of Mississippi.

Provenance

Source: courts.ms.gov
Retrieved: 2026-09-25
Edition: 2026-09-25
Content hash: c354ace9073b12d6212229c490d04e0af2ae01bbde0794530349ca9261dbbb27

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