{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/wills-act-1837/introduction",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/wills-act-1837/introduction.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/Will4and1Vict/7/26",
  "legislation_title": "Wills Act 1837",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/wills-act-1837",
  "path": "introduction",
  "kind": "introduction",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "An Act for the amendment of the laws with respect to Wills.\n[3rd July 1837]",
  "extent": "E+W+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Act (except s. 1 in part and s. 11) repealed (N.I.) (1.1.1995) by S.I. 1994/1899 (N.I. 13), art. 38, Sch. 3 (with art. 36, Sch. 2 para. 15(1)-(3)); S.R. 1994/372, art. 2"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "Short Title “The Wills Act 1837” given by Short Titles Act 1896 (c. 14)"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C2",
      "text": "Act amended by Law of Property (Amendment) Act 1924 (15 & 16 Geo. 5 c. 5), s. 9, Sch. 9"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C3",
      "text": "Words of enactment and other words repealed by Statute Law Revision (No. 2) Act 1888 (c. 57) and Statute Law Revision Act 1893 (c. 14)"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C4",
      "text": "This Act is not necessarily in the form in which it has effect in Northern Ireland"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C5",
      "text": "Act modified by Mental Health Act 1983 (c. 20, SIF 85), ss. 97(2), 148, Sch. 5 para. 43(2)"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C6",
      "text": "Act amended by the Children Act 1989 (c. 41, SIF 20), s. 108(6), Sch. 14 para. 14; S.I.1991/828, art. 3(2) (with Sch. 14 para. 1(1))"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C7",
      "text": "Act modified (E.W.) (1.10.2007) by Mental Capacity Act 2005 (c. 9), s. 68(1), Sch. 2 para. 4 (with ss. 27-29, 62); S.I. 2007/1897, art. 2(1)(d)"
    }
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    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T13:45:15.749513+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}