Section 10Part 0 —
Gift to attesting witness to be void
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If any person shall attest the execution of any will to whom or to whose wife, husband or civil partner any beneficial devise, legacy, estate, interest, gift or appointment of or affecting any real or personal estate (other than and except charges and directions for the payment of any debt or debts), shall be thereby given or made, such devise, legacy, estate, interest, gift or appointment shall, so far only as concerns such person attesting the execution of such will or the wife, husband or civil partner of such person, or any person claiming under such person or wife, husband or civil partner, be utterly null and void; and such person so attesting shall be admitted as a witness to prove the execution of such will, or to prove the validity or invalidity thereof notwithstanding such devise, legacy, estate, interest, gift or appointment mentioned in such will.