The forms and solemnities of the place of domicil must be observed. 2 Ves. & B. Ch. 127; 3 Yes. Ch. 192 ; 8 Sim. Ch. 279 ; 4 Hagg. Eccl. 346 ; 4 Mylne & C. Ch. 76 ; 2 Harr. It J. Md. 191; 1 Binn. Penn. 336 ; 4 Johns. Ch. N. Y. 460 ; 1 Mas. C. C. 381; 12 Wheat. 169 ; 9 Pet. 483.
The local law is to determine the character of property. 6 Paige, Ch. N. Y. 630 ; Story, Confl. Laws, 447 ; Erskine, Inst. b. 3, tit. 9, 4.
And it is held that a state may regulate the succession to personal as well as real pro perty within its limits, without regard to the lex domicilii. 6 Humphr. Tenn. 116.
The interpretation of a will is to be accord ing to the law of the place of actual domicil.
3 Clark & F. Hou. L. 544, 570 ; 4 Bligh, 502 ; 3 Sim. Ch. 298 ; 2 Brown, Ch. 38 ; Story, Eq. Jur. 1068 ; 9 Pet. 483. As to the effect of a change of domicil subsequent to the making of the will, see 9 Pet. 183 ; Story, Confi. 479 g. The rules as to con struction of wills apply whether they be of real or personal property, unless in case of real property it may be clearly gathered from the terms of the will that the testator had in view the lex rei sitar. Story, Confi. Laws, 479 h ; 3 Wils. & S. Ch. 407 ; 2 Bligh, 60; 4 Mylne & C. Ch. 76 15. The succession to the personal pro perty of an intestate is governed exclusively by the law of his actual domicil at the time of his death. 2 Ves. Ch. 35 ; 2 Bos. & P. 229 ; 5 Barnew. & C. 438 ; 8 Sim. Ch. 310; 14 Mart. La. 99 ; 3 Paige, Ch. N. Y. 182 ; 2 Harr. & J. Md. 193 ; 4 Johns. Ch. N. Y.
460 ; 1 Mae. C. C. 418 ; 15 N. H. 137. This includes the ascertainment of the person who is to be heir. Story, Confl. Laws, 481; 2 Yes. Ch. 35 ; 2 Hagg. Eccl. 455 ; 2 Keen, 293. The question whether debts are to be paid by the administrator from the person alty or realty is to be decided by the law of his domicil. Story, Confl. Laws, 528 ; 9 Mod. 66 ; Chanc. Prec. 511 ; 2 Yes. & B. Ch. Ir. 131 ; 2 Keen, 293.
16. Insolvents and bankrupts. An as signment of property for the benefit of ere ditors valid by the law of the domicil is nerally recognized as valid everywhere, Ch. N. Y. 471 ; 2 II. Blackst. 402 ; 4 Term, 182 ; 2 Rose, Bank. 97 ; 8 Ves. Ch. 82; 1 Crompt. M. & R. Exch. 296 ; see 6 Pick. Mass. 312 ; in the absence of positive statute to the contrary, 6 Pick. Mass. 286 ; 14 Mart. La. 93, 100 • 6 Binn. Penn. 353 ; Story, Confi. Laws, e411 ; but not to the injury of citizens of the foreign state in which property is situated. 5 East, 131; 17 Mart. La. 596 . 6 Binn. Penn. 360 ; Cranch, 289 ; 12 Wheat. 213 ; 5 N. II. 213 ; 1 Paige, Ch. N. Y. 237; 1 Harr. & M'H. Md. 236. But a compulsory assignment by force of statute is not of extra-territorial opera tion 20 johns. N. Y. 229; 6 Binn. Penn. 353; 6 Pick. Mass. 286. Distribution of the effects of insolvent or bankrupt debtors is to be made according to the law of the domicil, subject to the same qualifications. Story, Confl. Laws, 323-328, 423 a. See CON FLICT OF LAWS.