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Davis v. Williford, 271 U.S. 484 (1926)
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General SummaryThis case is from a collection containing the full text of over 16,000 Supreme Court cases from 1793 to the present. The body of Supreme Court decisions are, effectively, the final interpretation of the Constitution. Only an amendment to the Constitution can permanently overturn an interpretation and this has happened only four times in American history.
Davis v. Williford, 271 U.S. 484 (1926)
Davis v. Williford No. 316 Submitted May 4, 1926 Decided June 1, 1926 271 U.S. 484
CERTIORARI TO THE SUPREME COURT
OF THE STATE OF OKLAHOMA
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1. Case held reviewable by certiorari and not by writ of error. P. 486.
2. Under the Act of April 26, 1906, permitting members of the Five Civilized Tribes to will their property, but providing that
no will of a full-blood Indian devising real estate shall be valid if such last will and testament disinherits the parent, wife, spouse, or children of such full-blood Indian, unless acknowledged before and approved by a judge of the United States court for the Indian Territory, or a United States commissioner,
to give validity to such a will, it was necessary not only that it be in fact acknowledged by the testator before the officer, but that the officer place a certificate of such acknowledgment upon the will as an essential part of the acknowledgment itself. P. 486.
3. Parol evidence inadmissible to supply lack of such certificate. Id.
106 Okla. 208, affirmed.
Certiorari to a judgment of the Supreme Court of Oklahoma which reversed a judgment upholding an instrument as the will of a deceased full-blood Chickasaw Indian devising his surplus allotment away from his wife and children. A writ of error was also taken, and is dismissed.
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Chicago: U.S. Supreme Court, "Syllabus," Davis v. Williford, 271 U.S. 484 (1926) in 271 U.S. 484 Original Sources, accessed November 22, 2024, http://originalsources.com/Document.aspx?DocID=967IJFJZ8L4RVWU.
MLA: U.S. Supreme Court. "Syllabus." Davis v. Williford, 271 U.S. 484 (1926), in 271 U.S. 484, Original Sources. 22 Nov. 2024. http://originalsources.com/Document.aspx?DocID=967IJFJZ8L4RVWU.
Harvard: U.S. Supreme Court, 'Syllabus' in Davis v. Williford, 271 U.S. 484 (1926). cited in 1926, 271 U.S. 484. Original Sources, retrieved 22 November 2024, from http://originalsources.com/Document.aspx?DocID=967IJFJZ8L4RVWU.
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