In Re Thurlow, Decd Riddick and Another v Kennard and Others: ChD 7 Jul 1971
cw Will – Construction – ‘Descendants’ – Residuary estate to be divided between descendants of late mother and of late father – Modern legal and ordinary meaning of ‘descendants’ – Whether...
View ArticlePrice v Dewhurst: 6 May 1837
Citations: [1837] EngR 717, (1837) 8 Sim 279, (1837) 59 ER 111 Links: Commonlii Jurisdiction: England and Wales Wills and Probate Updated: 20 December 2022; Ref: scu.313834 The post Price v Dewhurst: 6...
View ArticleRobert Burgh An Infant, By His Guardian, Executor of Eleanor Burgh, Executrix...
Joint Executors, one of them died and the Executor of the Executor of him who was dead, brought a Bill to be relieved against an Action of Trover brought by the surviving Executor, who demurred for...
View ArticleScipio Lesquire An Infant, By Susan His Mother And Guardian, Plaintiff;...
Citations: [1674] EngR 69, (1674) Fin H 134, (1674) 23 ER 73 (A) Links: Commonlii Jurisdiction: England and Wales Wills and Probate Updated: 20 December 2022; Ref: scu.406068 The post Scipio Lesquire...
View ArticleRobert Leigh, Plaintiff; John Wood And John Leigh, Defendants: 1674
Citations: [1674] EngR 66, (1674) Fin H 135, (1674) 23 ER 73 (B) Links: Commonlii Jurisdiction: England and Wales Wills and Probate Updated: 20 December 2022; Ref: scu.406065 The post Robert Leigh,...
View ArticleHaley v Siddiqui and Others: ChD 28 Feb 2014
Judges: Hodge QC HHJ Citations: [2014] EWHC 835 (Ch) Links: Bailii Jurisdiction: England and Wales Wills and Probate Updated: 28 December 2022; Ref: scu.523720 The post Haley v Siddiqui and Others: ChD...
View ArticleWatts v Watts: CA 21 Dec 2015
The barrister for one of the parties was junior Counsel to the fee-paid judge in another case, which they had been working on together for the past year. The opponent appealed a refusal of the judge to...
View ArticleKayll v Rawlinson: ChD 2010
The parties disputed the validity of a will. Held: (obiter) David Richards J said that because it was common ground that the terms of the attestation clause did not reflect the manner in which the...
View ArticleSamuel v Samuel and Others: ChD 17 Dec 2018
By an application notice the First Defendant, Syleta Monica Susan Samuel, applies for an order that a probate claim brought by her sister, Merlina Jacqueline Samuel, be struck out as an abuse of...
View ArticleWorby, Worby and Worby v Rosser: CA 28 May 1999
Three potential beneficiaries sought payment from a solicitor of the costs of resisting the grant of probate to a will, saying that he had owed them a duty of care to ensure that the testator did not...
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