Minister of North Berwick v Home: 1600
Money left in testament to the poor found to bear annualrent from the death of the testator. [1600] Mor 560 Bailii Scotland, Wills and Probate Updated: 28 December 2021; Ref: scu.544253 The post...
View ArticleBuchanan v Campbell: SCS 1 Jun 1601
Lands or goods of a bastard, or person deceasing without heirs, pertain not to the Lord of Regality, unless specially expressed in his infeftment Mr Johne Dalzell, and Susanna Buchanan his spous,...
View ArticleSibbald v Greig: SCS 18 Feb 1612
In what Cases a Bastard’s Effects fall to the Lord of Regality – The Archbishop of St Andrews found to have no right to the escheats of bastards deceasing within the bounds of his regality, by his...
View ArticleHeslop v Heslop and Another: ChD 12 Nov 2021
[2021] EWHC 2957 (Ch) Bailii England and Wales Wills and Probate Updated: 29 December 2021; Ref: scu.669816 The post Heslop v Heslop and Another: ChD 12 Nov 2021 appeared first on swarb.co.uk.
View ArticleFielden v Hristie-Miller and Others: ChD 20 Mar 2015
[2015] EWHC 752 (Ch) Bailii England and Wales Wills and Probate, Trusts Updated: 29 December 2021; Ref: scu.544605 The post Fielden v Hristie-Miller and Others: ChD 20 Mar 2015 appeared first on...
View ArticleHirachand v Hirachand and Another: CA 15 Oct 2021
Lady Justice King, Lord Justice Singh, And, Sir Patrick Elias [2021] EWCA Civ 1498 Bailii, Judiciary Inheritance (Provision for Family and Dependants) Act 1975 England and Wales Wills and Probate...
View ArticleGwillim And Another v Gwillim And Others (Collins And Others Cited To See...
[1859] EngR 938, (1859) 3 Sw and Tr 200, (1859) 164 ER 1251 Commonlii England and Wales Wills and Probate Updated: 30 December 2021; Ref: scu.288290 The post Gwillim And Another v Gwillim And Others...
View ArticleIn The Goods Of Sarah Sophia Soames Monday, Deceased: 14 Jan 1837
[1837] EngR 380, (1837) 1 Curt 590, (1837) 163 ER 207 (A) Commonlii England and Wales Wills and Probate Updated: 30 December 2021; Ref: scu.313497 The post In The Goods Of Sarah Sophia Soames Monday,...
View ArticleSharp v Hutchins: ChD 1 May 2015
‘The issue for the Court is whether to pronounce in solemn form in favour of a will dated 5 January 2013 (‘the 2013 Will’) as contended by the Claimant on the Claim or in favour of a will dated 4...
View ArticleClark v Wilson: SCS 5 May 2015
[2015] ScotCS CSOH – 53 Bailii Scotland Wills and Probate Updated: 30 December 2021; Ref: scu.546812 The post Clark v Wilson: SCS 5 May 2015 appeared first on swarb.co.uk.
View ArticleFalconer v Dame Elizabeth Falconer, Ramsay, Archer, Minister of The Gospel At...
Presumption. – Two mortifications for educating children at a parish school, are found in the grantor’s repositories after his death; the one bore date four years after the other, but was in same terms...
View ArticleAlexander Murray, of Broughton, Esq; v George Bullerwell, Gentleman: HL 12...
Process – In a competition between two persons, claiming to be heirs to an estate, the inquest refused to retour either of them. One of the parties in an action of reduction and declarator, calls the...
View ArticleHenein v Laffa: CA 16 Jun 2015
The claimant, the widower of the deceased renewed his application for leave to appeal against the rejection of his challenge to his late wife’s will, and whether a notice of severance had been vaildly...
View ArticleLockston Group Inc v Wood: ChD 27 Oct 2015
The court considered application in the management of the insolvent estate of the deceased Mr Berezovski. David Richards J [2015] EWHC 2962 (Ch) Bailii England and Wales Insolvency, Wills and Probate...
View ArticleDoe On The Several Demises Of Mence And Others v Hadley: 13 Nov 1851
[1851] EngR 856, (1851) 17 QB 571, (1851) 117 ER 1400 Commonlii England and Wales Wills and Probate Updated: 05 January 2022; Ref: scu.297172 The post Doe On The Several Demises Of Mence And Others v...
View ArticleWilliam Nisbet of Dirleton v Janet, Jane, and Willielmina Nisbetd Erski: HL 7...
Legitim – Husband and Wife – Provisions to Heirs and Children – Bonds Portions to children in a contract of marriage if not so expressed, do not exclude their right of legitim. Upon a wife’s renouncing...
View ArticleElizabeth Moodie, Spinster, A Pauper v John Stewart of Burgh: HL 6 Feb 1730
Provision to heirs and children – The heir under a marriage contract may, during his father’s lifetime, renounce for himself and his successors all claims under the contract. Idiotry – In a reduction...
View ArticleGuthrie v Morel and Others: ChD 5 Nov 2015
The will had failed clearly to identify a property in Spain the subject of a bequest. Held: Summary judgment was given. ‘It seems to me to be clear that the deceased intended by his Will to deal with...
View ArticleCrawford, Commonly An Infant, By John Crawford, etc v Viscount of Garnock,...
Tailzie – Title to pursue – An heir under an entail, which was not properly recorded, having possessed without inserting in his infeftments the fetters of the entail, and contracted debts; the next...
View ArticleRoyal National Institute for Deaf People and Others v Turner: ChD 18 Nov 2015
Challenge to grant of probate for home made will. Claim that not executed properly – contention that it was not signed by Mrs Whelen in the presence of 2 witnesses (s 9(1)(c)) and that the two...
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