This section is from the book "Popular Law Library Vol10 Criminal Law, Criminal Procedure, Wills, Administration", by Albert H. Putney. Also available from Amazon: Popular Law-Dictionary.
The general rule is that any person of legal age and sound mind, who is not under some special legal disability, may make a will. There is no difference between the capacity required to make a will of personal property and one of real property except that in some states an infant over the age of fourteen years may make a will of personal property.
 
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