A will is absolutely a personal act. The making of it, either wholly or partially, cannot be left to the discretion of a third person, nor can it be made through a trustee or agent.
Neither can there be left to the discretion of a third person the continuance of the appointment of heirs or legatees, nor the designation of the portions to which they are to succeed when they are nominally instituted.
History —Civil Code, 1930, § 619.