Cap. 16 Art. 668Secret will by a deaf-mute.

(1) A person who is deaf-and-dumb, or dumb only, whether congenitally or otherwise, may, if he knows how to write, make a secret will, provided the will is entirely written out and signed by him, and provided he himself, in the presence of the court or of the notary to which or to whom he presents such will, and of the witnesses of the delivery, writes down on the paper which he presents, that such paper contains his will.

(2) The notary in the act of delivery, or, as the case may be, the registrar, in the note of particulars referred to in article 662, shall state that the testator wrote the declaration mentioned in sub-article

(1) of this article, in the presence of the notary and the witnesses, or in the presence of the court.