Steno Legal Dictation No. 458

It is well established principle of law that party propounding a Will or otherwise making a claim under a Will is under obligation to prove the document. Unlike other document Will is a document which speaks from the death of testator and the testator, who has already migrated to the other world cannot appear and dispose as to whether he has executed such document or not? The propounder is required to show by satisfactory evidence that Will was signed by testator, that testator at the relevant time was in a sound and disposing state of mind, that he understood the nature and effect of dispositions and had put his signature on the document of his own violation.