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§ 2507. Reception of wills for safekeeping\n 1. The court of any county upon being paid the fees allowed therefor\nby law shall receive and deposit in the court any will of a domiciliary\nof the county which any person shall deliver to it for that purpose and\nshall give a written receipt therefor to the person depositing it. An\nattesting witness to any will may make and sign an affidavit before any\nofficer authorized to administer oaths setting forth such facts as he\nwould be required to testify to in order to prove the will. The\naffidavit may be written upon the will or on some paper securely\nattached thereto and may be filed for safekeeping with the will to which\nit relates. There may also be filed with the will affidavits of\ncertified medical examiners, under the provisions of
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§ 2507. Reception of wills for safekeeping\n 1. The court of any county upon being paid the fees allowed therefor\nby law shall receive and deposit in the court any will of a domiciliary\nof the county which any person shall deliver to it for that purpose and\nshall give a written receipt therefor to the person depositing it. An\nattesting witness to any will may make and sign an affidavit before any\nofficer authorized to administer oaths setting forth such facts as he\nwould be required to testify to in order to prove the will. The\naffidavit may be written upon the will or on some paper securely\nattached thereto and may be filed for safekeeping with the will to which\nit relates. There may also be filed with the will affidavits of\ncertified medical examiners, under the provisions of the mental hygiene\nlaw, certifying that the maker of the will was of sound mind at the time\nof its execution, together with any facts supporting such opinion.\n 2. The will shall be enclosed in a sealed wrapper so that the contents\nthereof cannot be read and shall have endorsed thereon the name of the\ntestator, his domicile, and the day, month and year when delivered and\nshall not on any pretext whatever be opened, read or examined until\ndelivered to a person entitled to it as hereinafter directed.\n 3. The will shall be delivered only\n (a) to the testator in person or\n (b) upon his written order duly proved by the oath of the testator\nwhich shall be duly acknowledged or\n (c) after his death to the persons named in the endorsement on the\nwrapper of the will, if such endorsement be made thereon or\n (d) if there be no such endorsement or if it has been deposited with\nany other officer than a surrogate, then to the surrogate's court of the\ncounty.\n 4. If the will shall have been deposited with a surrogate's court or\nshall have been delivered to it as above prescribed the court after the\ndeath of the testator shall publicly open and examine the will and make\nknown the contents thereof and shall file it in the court, there to\nremain until it shall have been duly proved, if capable of proof, and\nthen to be delivered to the person entitled to the custody thereof or\nuntil required by the authority of some competent court to produce the\nsame in such court.\n