Section 62 of the Act deals with the characteristic of a Will being revocable or altered anytime during the lifetime of the testator. A will is liable to be revoked or altered by the maker of it at any time when he is competent to dispose of his property by will.
- Revocation of will by testator’s marriage (Section 69 )
Every will shall be revoked by the marriage of the maker, except a will made in exercise of a power of appointment, when the property over which the power of appointment is exercised would not, in default of such appointment, pass to his or her executor or administrator, or to the person entitled in case of intestacy. It means where a man is invested with power to determine the disposition of property of which he is not the owner, he is said to have power to appoint such property.
- Revocation of unprivileged will or codicil (Section 70)
No unprivileged will or codicil, nor any part thereof, shall be revoked otherwise than by marriage, or by another will or codicil, or by some writing declaring an intention to revoke the same and executed in the manner in which an unprivileged will is herein before required to be executed, or by the burning, tearing, or otherwise destroying the same by the testator or by some person in his presence and by his direction with the intention of revoking the same.
- Revocation of privileged will or codicil (Section 71 )
A privileged will or codicil, may be revoked by the testator by an unprivileged will .or codicil, or by any act expressing an intention to revoke it and accompanied by such formalities as would be sufficient to give validity to a privileged will, or by the burning, tearing or otherwise destroying the same by the testator, or by some person in his presence and by his direction, with the intention of revoking the same. In order to the revocation of a privileged will or codicil by an act accompanied by such formalities as would be sufficient to give validity to a privileged will, it is not necessary that the testator should at the time of doing that act be in a situation which entitles him to make a privileged will