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PHILIPPINE REPORTS ANNOTATED VOLUME 106

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TRUST Co., executor and
included.
appellee, vs. MAGDALENA C.
BOHANAN, EDWARD C.
BOHANAN, and MARY LYDIA [No. L-12105. January 30, 1960
BOHANAN, oppositors and
appellants.

Citation: 106 Phil. 997 TESTATE ESTATE OF C. O.

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PHILIPPINE TRUST Co.
executor and appellee,
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EDWARD C. BOHANAN, and
MARY LYDIA BOHANAN
oppositors and appellants.

1. WILLS; TESTAMENTARY
DISPOSITIONS, WHAT
LAW GOVERNS
APPROVAL OF PROJECT
OF PARTITION.—Article
10 of the old Civil Code
(Article 16, new Civil Code)
provides that the validity of
testamentary dispositions
are to be governed by the
national law of the person
whose succession is in
question. In case at bar, the
testator was a citizen of the
State of Nevada. Since the
laws of said state allow the
testator to dispose of all his
property according to his
will, his testamentary
dispositions depriving his
wife and children of what
should be their legitimes
under the laws of the
Philippines, should be
respected and the project of
partition made in
accordance with his

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