In Re Last Will & Testament of Love

Our statute on the subject, O. S., sec. 4133, provides in effect that no will or testament in writing, or any clause thereof, shall be revoked, except by burning, cancelling, tearing or obliterating the same, by the testator himself, or in his presence and by his direction and consent, or by a formal will with witnesses or a holograph will, duly executed as- the statute requires and prescribes.

In construing this statute, it is held with us that in any of the modes specified there may be a partial revocation of the will. In re Will of Saunders, 177 N. C., 156; Baker v. Edge, 174 N. C., 100;…