Cap. 16 Art. 673Wills in places where communications are interrupted.

(1) In places with which communications have been interrupted by order of the public authority, a will may be received in writing, in the presence of two witnesses, by a judge, magistrate, or notary, or by the parish priest, or other ecclesiastic in holy orders.

(2) Such will shall in all cases be, on pain of nullity, signed by the person receiving it.

(3) Such will shall, moreover, on pain of nullity, be signed, where practicable, by the testator and the witnesses. If under the circumstances the signing of the will by the testator and the witnesses is not practicable, there shall, on pain of nullity, be entered in the will a declaration stating the reason for which such signatures have not been affixed.

(4) In any such will, any person of either sex, provided he or she has attained the age of eighteen years, may act as a witness.