Any person having in his custody or control any sealed will must file it with the part of the Court of First Instance where the testator resided at the time of his death, and such person may be required so to do on the application to said court of any person acquainted with the fact of its execution, or who has sufficient reason to believe that it was so executed.
History —Code Civil Proc., 1933, § 542; Aug. 9, 1998, No. 212, § 3.