Intestacy in UK Law
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Re Crispin's Will Trusts ; Arkwright v Thurley
... ... The scope of the bequest must be decided in exactly the same way in which it would have been decided on an intestacy, what articles were within the widow's statutory right to personal chattels as defined. The definition in the Administration of Estates Act, 1925, of ... ...
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Michael Paul Goodman and Another (Appellants/Claimants) v Mina Goodman and Another (Respondents/Defendants)
... ... Subsection (4) explains that a "beneficiary" for this purpose is "a person who under the will of the deceased or under the law relating to intestacy is beneficially interested in the estate". By virtue of section 56, "will" includes "any testamentary document of which probate may be granted" ... ...
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Re Hemming, decd
... ... In that case, the testatrix's husband and only child had drowned in an accident. She was his administratrix and sole beneficiary under his intestacy. At his death, the husband had been the owner of 51% of the issued shares in a company called Sheet Metal Prefabricators (Battersea) Limited, and had ... ...
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Randall v Randall
... ... Baxter contends that a claim to be a beneficiary of the estate under statute is much closer to a claim to be a beneficiary under a will or intestacy than to a claim to be a creditor of a beneficiary contingent on the extent of the beneficiary's interest in the estate (whose claim is against the ... ...
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James v Williams
... ... 6 The grandmother died intestate on 2 February 1972. The consequence of that intestacy was that by Sections 46 and 47 of the Administration of Estates Act 1925, her residuary estate was to be held on statutory trust for her three adult ... ...
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Re Jennery, deceased ; Jennery v Jennery
... ... Under that statute a dependant can apply to the Court (I propose at the moment to leave out the amendments, which introduced oases of intestacy), if he or she considers that reasonable provision has not been made by the testator's will for the dependant - such as a widow. If the Court ... ...
- Tomlinson v Glyns Executor and Trustee Company
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Re Krubert (Deceased)
... ... the light of those two inquiries, am I to make of the reasonableness, when viewed objectively, of the dispositions made by the will and/or intestacy of the deceased?' If the judge finds those dispositions unreasonable, he will go on to ask himself: 'What, in the light of those same inquiries, ... ...
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Harris v Empress Motors Ltd
... ... 5 The deceased died intestate; there was no estate except the Law Reform damages. The division of the estate under the intestacy produces the following result: the widow benefits in the sum of £57,000 (1st £25,000 plus 4 years' statutory interest; £7,000 plus value of life ... ...
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Re Servoz-Gavin, decd
... ... herself, and the twelve defendants (with the exception of the first defendant), are the persons who will be entitled to the estate on an intestacy. 1 ... 2 The claimant has been represented by Ms Penelope Reed QC. The first and fourth defendants were present at the ... ...
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