§ 25-26. Other definitions.  


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  • Words used in the present tense include future as well as the present; the word "oath" includes "affirmation;" and every mode of oral statement under oath or affirmation is embraced by the term "testify," and every written one in the term "depose;" "signature" or "subscription" includes mark, when the person cannot write, his name being written near it, and written by a person who writes his own name as a witness.  The following words also have the signification attached to them in this section, unless otherwise apparent from the context:

    1.  The word "property" includes property, real and personal.

    2.  The words "real property" are coextensive with lands, tenements and hereditaments.

    3.  The words "personal property" include money, goods, chattels, things in action and evidences of debt.

    4. The word "will" includes codicils.

R.L.1910, § 2945.