Perrin v Morgan
| Jurisdiction | England & Wales |
| Date | 1943 |
| Court | House of Lords |
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253 cases
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Louis Lambie and Others v Marve Lambie and Another
...to make a fresh will for the testator merely because it strongly suspects that the testator did not mean what he has plainly said.’ ( Perrin v Morgan [1943] A.C. 399, 420 ) Viscount Simon L.C. clearly agreed with this statement of the law, evidenced by the following opinion, in the same cas......
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Re Moore; Taylor v Sherring
...but will adopt that meaning which seems in all the circumstances most likely to have been intended by the testator. Perrin v. MorganELR, [1943] A. C. 399 approved. In re Moore; Taylor v. Sherring In re JULIA MOORE, Deceased; SARAH TAYLOR Plaintiff and AMY SHERRING and NELLIE SHERRING Defend......
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Transferable Nil Rate Band Where Now?
...TNRB came into force, and not at the time she made her will. The Judge referred to RSPCA v Sharp [2011] 1 WLR 980 and Perrin v Morgan [1943] A.C. 399 as to the approach to take in construing the language of the will, i.e. that one has to 'examine the language of the will in its context taki......
3 books & journal articles
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Table of Cases
...(Aug), Leeds Cty Ct 43, 44, 61, 63, 75, 78–79 Pengelly v Pengelly [2007] EWHC 3227 (Ch), [2007] WTLR 1619 118, 119, 127 Perrin v Morgan [1943] AC 399, [1943] 1 All ER 187, HL 12–13 Perrins (Deceased), Re; Perrins v Holland & Anor [2009] EWHC 1945 (Ch), [2009] All ER (D) 30 (Aug) 49–50, 51, ......
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Form, Content and Interpretation of a Will
...words used so as to keep within what the testator/testatrix had in mind (see Aitken’s Trustees v Aitken 1927 SC 374). In Perrin v Morgan [1943] AC 399 at 406, Viscount Simon LC said: ... the fundamental rule in construing the language of a will is to put on the words used the meaning which,......
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Construction and Interpretation of Wills
...words are given their ordinary meaning, or that intended by the testator when there are several ordinary meanings. In Perrin v Morgan [1943] AC 399, the House of Lords had to consider the use of the word ‘money’, a word that can have several ordinary meanings, ranging from ‘cash’ to the who......