Cap. 16 Art. 655Form of public will. Cap. 55.

(1) Saving any other provision of this Code, a public will is received and published by a notary in the presence of two witnesses in the same manner as any other notarial instrument, in accordance with the provisions of the Notarial Profession and Notarial Archives Act, even in regard to the signature of the testator, according as to whether the testator knows how to, and can write, or not.

(2) The signature of the witnesses is in no case dispensed with whatever may be the value of the thing disposed of by the will.