to be subscribed by two witnesses according to the enactments relative thereto and shall not proceed further if
the will does not appear to be so signed and subscribed.
(2) If the will appears to be so signed and subscribed, the Court shall then refer to the attestation clause (if any)
and consider whether the wording thereof states the will to have been, in fact, executed in accordance with those
enactments.
20. (1) If there is no attestation clause or the attestation clause is insufficient, the Court shall require an affidavit
from at least one of the subscribing witnesses, if either of them is living, to prove that the will was, in fact,
executed in accordance with those enactments.
(2) The affidavit shall be engrossed and form part of the probate, so that the probate may be a complete
document on the face of it.
21. If on perusal of the affidavit it appears that the will was not, in fact, executed in accordance with those
enactments, the Court shall refuse probate.
22. If both the subscribing witnesses are dead or if from other circumstances such an affidavit cannot be obtained
from either of them, resort for such an affidavit shall be had to other persons (if any) present at the execution of
the will but if no such affidavit can be obtained, proof shall be required of that fact and of the handwriting of the
deceased and of the subscribing witnesses and also of any circumstances raising a presumption in favour of the
due execution of the will.
23. Where the testator was blind or illiterate, the Court shall not grant administration with the will annexed,
unless the Court is first satisfied, by proof or by what appears on the face of the will, that the will was read over
to the deceased before its execution or that he had at that time knowledge of its contents.
24. (1) The Court, on being satisfied that the will was duly executed, shall carefully inspect it to see whether
there are any interlineations or alterations or erasures or obliterations appearing in it and requiring to be
accounted for.
(2) Interlineations, alterations, erasures and obliterations shall be invalid unless they existed in the will at the
time of its execution or unless, if made afterwards, they have been executed and attested in the mode required by
the said enactments or unless they have been made valid by the re-execution of the will or by the subsequent
execution of some codicil there to.
(3) Where interlineations, alterations, erasures or obliterations appear in the will (unless duly executed or recited
in or otherwise identified by the attestation clause), an affidavit in proof of their having existed in the will before
its execution shall be filed.
(4) If no satisfactory evidence is adduced respecting the time when an erasure or obliteration was made and the
words erased or obliterated are not entirely effaced and can, on inspection of the will be ascertained, they shall
form part of the probate.
(5) Where any words have been erased which might have been of, importance an affidavit shall be required.
25. (1) Where a will contains a reference to any document of such a nature as to raise the question whether it
ought or ought not to form a constituent part of the will, the Court shall require the production of the document,
with a view to ascertaining whether or not it is entitled to probate and if it is not produced, a satisfactory account
of its non-production shall be proved.
(2) A document shall not form part of a will unless it was in existence at the time when the will was executed.
(3) If there are vestiges of sealing wax or wafers or other marks, on the will, leading to the inference that some
document has been at some time annexed or attached thereto, a satisfactory account of them shall be proved or
the production of the document shall be required and if it is not produced, a satisfactory account of its nonproduction shall be proved.
26. Where a person appointed executor in a will survives the testator but either dies without having taken probate
or having been called on by the Court to take probate does not appear, his right in respect of the executorship