Intestacy in UK Law

  • Harris v Empress Motors Ltd
    • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
    • 14 Julio 1983
    ... ... 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 ... ...
  • James v Williams
    • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
    • 08 Marzo 1999
    ... ... 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 ... ...
  • Marshall (Inspector of Taxes) v Kerr
    • House of Lords
    • 30 Junio 1994
    ... ... between legal and equitable interests: (2) No residuary legatee or person entitled upon the intestacy of the deceased has any proprietary interest in any particular asset comprised in the unadministered estate of the deceased; ... ...
  • Gammell v Wilson
    • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
    • 01 Abril 1980
    ... ... , or the action is settled, while the victim is alive, then the fruits of the action will probably pass to the dependants by will or on intestacy, or else they will be able to claim under the Inheritance (Provision for Family and Dependants) Act 1975. If the victim dies while the action is ... ...
  • Re Loftus (Deceased); Green and Others v Gaul and Others
    • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
    • 28 Julio 2006
    ... ... respect of any claim to the personal estate of a deceased person or to any share or interest in any such estate (whether under a will or on intestacy) shall be brought after the expiration of twelve years from the date on which the right to receive the share or interest accrued; (b) ... " ... ...
  • Rebecca Millburn-Snell and Others v Susan Cecile Evans
    • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
    • 25 Mayo 2011
  • In the Estate of Langton, deceased
    • Court of Appeal
    • 24 Enero 1964
    ... ... , begun on the 8th July, 1957, whereby he sought to obtain revocation of the Probate of the 1949 Will and the 1951 Codicil, and to set up an intestacy or the 1906 Will. This action was heard by Mr Justice Rees on the 11th, 12th and 17th July, 1962, and after hearing the witnesses, including the ... ...
  • Anthony Armbrister and Another v Marion E Lightbourn and Another
    • Privy Council
    • 11 Diciembre 2012
    ... ... 31 Escheat for felony was abolished by statute in 1870, and escheat on intestacy was replaced (the change being more a matter of form than substance) by section 45(1)(d) of the Administration of Estates Act 1925. The substituted ... ...
  • Soulsbury v Soulsbury
    • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
    • 10 Octubre 2007
    ... ... , whether he dies testate or intestate, must give effect to such agreement at the expense of the beneficiaries under the will or intestacy. There must, however, in any such case, be a binding agreement by the testator to dispose of his property in a certain way, and this involves two ... ...
  • Re Whitrick, deceased ; Sutcliffe v Sutcliffe
    • Court of Appeal
    • 17 Mayo 1957
    ... ... The testtrix made a will which, in the events which happened, necessaritly resulted in an intestacy as to one-third of her residuary estated owing to the death in her lifetime of one of three named residuary legaree. The matter in dispute is ... ...
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