Restatement of the law, property (wills and other donative transfers) : as adopted and promulgated by the American Law Institute at Washington, D.C., May 12, 1998

Restatement of the law, property (wills and other donative transfers) : as adopted and promulgated by the American Law Institute at Washington, D.C., May 12, 1998 volume 2 contents: Ch. 6 - Gifts. § 6.1 - Requirements applicable to all gifts of property. § 6.2 - Gifts of personal property. § 6.3 - Gifts of land. Ch. 7 - Will substitutes. § 7.1 - Will substitute - definition and validity. § 7.2 - Application of will doctrines to will substitutes. Division III: Protective doctrines. Ch. 8 - Invalidity due to the donor's incapacity or another's wrongdoing. § 8.1 - Requirement of mental capacity. § 8.2 - Incapacity due to minority. § 8.3 - Undue influence, duress, or fraud. § 8.4 - Homicide: the slayer rule. § 8.5 - No-contest clauses. Ch. 9 - Protections against disinheritance. § 9.1 - Surviving spouse's elective share: non-community property states other than that have adopted a revised uniform probate code-type statute. § 9.2 - Surviving spouse's elective share under the revised uniform probate code. § 9.3 - Before-tax treatment of an election. § 9.4 - Premarital or marital agreement. Part B. protections against unintentional disinheritance. § 9.5 - Protections against unintentional disinheritance. § 9.6 - Protection of child or descendant against unintentional disinheritance. § 9.7 - Mortmain abolished. Division IV: Construction, reformation, and modification of donative documents. Ch. 10 - General principles. § 10.1 - Donor's intention determines the meaning of a donative document and is given effect to the maximum extent allowed by law. § 10.2 - Permissible evidence for determining donor's intention. Ch. 11 - Resolving ambiguities. § 11.1 - Ambiguity defined. § 11.2 - Resolving ambiguities in accordance with the donor's intention. § 11.3 - Rules of construction and constructional preferences. Ch. 12 - Reforming and modifying donative documents. § 12.1 - Reforming donative documents to correct mistakes. § 12.2 - Modifying donative documents to achieve donor's tax objectives. Includes table of cases, table of statutes, parallel tables showing corresponding restatement third, restatement second, and restatement first section numbers, table of cross references to digest system key numbers and ALR annotations and index.