Rhode Island § 13-6-3 § 13-6-3. Wills or conveyances during imprisonment.

Rhode Island Statutes

§ 13-6-3 — § 13-6-3. Wills or conveyances during imprisonment.

Rhode Island § 13-6-3

Title 13Criminals – Correctional Institutions

Ch. 13-6Loss of Rights by Prisoners

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Bluebook

R.I. Gen. Laws § 13-6-3 (2026).

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§ 13-6-3. Wills or conveyances during imprisonment.
No person who shall be sentenced to imprisonment in the adult correctional institutions
            shall have any power, during his or her imprisonment, to make a will, or any conveyance
            of his or her property, or of any part of that property, except by permission of the
            superior court granted on petition for that power, and on the notice and terms, if
            any, that the court shall prescribe.
         

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§ 13-6-3. Wills or conveyances during imprisonment.

No person who shall be sentenced to imprisonment in the adult correctional institutions shall have any power, during his or her imprisonment, to make a will, or any conveyance of his or her property, or of any part of that property, except by permission of the superior court granted on petition for that power, and on the notice and terms, if any, that the court shall prescribe.

Legislative History

G.L. 1896, ch. 285, § 53; G.L. 1909, ch. 354, § 53; G.L. 1909, ch. 354, § 61; P.L. 1915, ch. 1261, § 1; G.L. 1923, ch. 407, § 61; G.L. 1938, ch. 624, § 3; impl. am. P.L. 1956, ch. 3721, § 1; G.L. 1956, § 13-6-3.