P.R. Laws tit. 32, § 2246

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§ 2246. Admission of will to probate

The serious and deliberate intention of the testator to make his last will having been clearly and specifically established by competent evidence; that the witnesses and the notary, if there be one, have heard simultaneously from the mouth of the testator all the dispositions that he wished to make in his last will, whether expressed by word of mouth or whether by reading or causing to be read any note or memorandum in which it was contained; that the number of witnesses was such as required by law, according to the circumstances as to the time and place in which it was executed, and the testimony taken, shall admit the will of the testator to probate, without prejudice to the rights of strangers to the record, and shall order the proceedings to be entered of record. Where any discrepancy appears in the evidence of the witnesses, the judge shall approve as the will that in which all of said witnesses have been in conformity.

History —Code Civil Proc., 1933, § 539.