What are the different types of wills?
A privileged or oral will can be made or executed only by a soldier, employed in an outing or, engaged in actual war, or, by an airman, so employed or engaged, or, by a sailor at sea, if he has completed the age of 18 years, to dispose of his property by a will. Such wills may be in writing or may be by word of mouth. The rules governing privileged wills are as follows: Such wills may be written wholly by the testator with his own hand. In such a case, it need not be signed or attested. It may be written wholly or, in part, by another person and signed by the testator. In such a case, it need not be attested. In case the instrument is written wholly or, partly, by another person and, is not signed by the testator, it shall be deemed to be the testator’s will only if it is shown that it was written under the testator’s directions or, that he recognized it as his will. If it appears on the face of the instrument that its execution was not completed in the manner, intended by the testator