Wills Act, 2002 (Cap. 115).

An Act to provide for deeds of inheritance of property including real estates. The Act consists of 45 sections divide into 6 Parts: Preliminary (I); Wills; rectification and interpretation of wills (II); Wills executed outside the Bahamas (III); Members of defence force (IV); Mariners and seamen (V); General (VI). “Real estate” is defined in section 2 as “messuages, lands, rents and hereditaments, whether freehold or of any other tenure, and whether corporeal or incorporeal or personal, and any undivided share thereof, and any estate, right or interest (other than a chattel interest) therein”. Subject to this Act, every person may dispose by will executed in accordance with this Act all real estate and all personal estate owned by him at the time of his death.