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Statutes > Maine > Title18a > Title18-Ach2sec0 > Title18-Asec2-509Title 18-A: PROBATE CODE
Article 2: INTESTATE SUCCESSION AND WILLS
Part 5: WILLS
§2-509. Revival of revoked will
(a). If a 2nd will which, had it remained effective at death, would have revoked the first will in whole or in part, is thereafter revoked by acts under section 2-507, the first will is revoked in whole or in part unless it is evident from the circumstances of the revocation of the 2nd will or from testator's contemporary or subsequent declarations that he intended the first will to take effect as executed.
[ 1979, c. 540, §1 (NEW) .]
(b). If a 2nd will which, had it remained effective at death, would have revoked the first will in whole or in part, is thereafter revoked by a 3rd will, the first will is revoked in whole or in part, except to the extent it appears from the terms of the 3rd will that the testator intended the first will to take effect.
[ 1979, c. 540, §1 (NEW) .]
SECTION HISTORY
1979, c. 540, §1 (NEW).
