A conditional or contingent will is one which is drawn up to become operative upon the happening or not happening of some event. The law does not favor conditional wills, and the intention of the testator to make the will a conditional one must appear very plainly in the instrument

State the English Statute of Frauds was re-enacted in 1783; and this extension to personal property antedates by a year the English enactment of Victoria.

"Various states, again, have copied the New York statute, whose verbal expression is quite different, and which requires, like the new English statute of Victoria, two instead of three witnesses. See McEl-waine, Rr., 18 N. J. Eq., 499. There are others of the original states, such as Pennsylvania and Virginia, whose legislation on the subject does not resemble that of either Massachusetts or New York. See Keg-arty's Appeal, 75 Perm. St., 503. In Pennsylvania, a subscription by witnesses is in many instances dispensed with.

"The laws of South Carolina, until recently, required three witnesses to a will of real estate only; but the same formality is now extended to wills of Ersonalty. On the other nd, in Mississippi, wills, if not wholly written out by the testator, require the attestation of three witnesses for real estate, and only one for personalty. In Tennessee, the code discriminates. Davis vs. Davis, 6 Lea, 543. See the local statutes referred to; also 1 Jarm, Wills, 77 Am. Ed., Bige-low's note; holograph wills, post. When Chancellor Kent wrote his Commentaries, wills with a formal execution by the testator and witnesses were scarcely required in the United States except for devising real estate. See 4 Kent Com., 505. "The civil code of Louisiana embodies a system altogether unique, which other states do not adopt. All wills are here divided into three leading classes: (1) nuncupative or open wills (which have acquired a peculiar signification in Louisiana practice); (2) mystic or sealed wills; (3) olographic (or holographic) wills. The details of execution in each instance are set forth minutely. See La. Rev. Civ. Code, Sec. 1567, et seq." Notes to page 273, Schouler on Wills, 2nd Ed.

Alternative wills are those where the testator declares that under certain circumstances one will shall prevail, and under certain circumstances, the other.