Couser v Couser
| Jurisdiction | England & Wales |
| Judgment Date | 27 February 1996 |
| Date | 27 February 1996 |
| Court | Chancery Division |
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7 cases
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Chai Choon Yong v Central Provident Fund Board and Others
...fraud. This is also the stated purpose behind the formalities for wills (In re Colling, decd [1972] 1 WLR 1440 and Couser v Couser [1996] 1 WLR 1301 at 1303–1305). To ensure that the signature is truly that of the CPF member’s, the act of signing must be seen by others. The presence of two ......
- Stovin and Another v Norfolk County Council
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Sangha v Sangha
...may properly be regarded as an acknowledgement of his signature. There is no particular formality required for an acknowledgement — in Couser v Couser [1996] 1 W.L.R. 1301, the relevant witness acknowledged her signature to the testator after he had acknowledged it to her and her husband (......
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Caroline Burdine Coakley v Merilyn Deshanks
...Theresa Woodside the Executrix of the Late Bernard Woodside v Woodside [2014] 1 BHS J No. 71 where Barnett CJ (as he then was) relied on Couser v Courser [1996] 1 WLR 1301 which stated:- “Section 9 of the Act of 1837 is clearly, as now slightly redrawn by the substitution of the section, d......
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3 books & journal articles
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Table of Cases
...(D) 10/9 149, 151 Cook’s Estate, Re; Murison v Cook [1960] 1 All ER 689, [1960] 1 WLR 353, 104 Sol Jo 311, PD&A 27 Couser v Couser [1996] 3 All ER 256, [1996] 1 WLR 1301, [1996] 3 FCR 745, ChD 32–33 Couwenbergh v Valkova [2008] EWHC 2451 (Ch), [2008] All ER (D) 264 (Oct) 44 Cowan v Foreman ......
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Execution of a Will
...of the document that they were being asked to sign and signed. This provision can lead to confusion, as illustrated in Couser v Couser [1996] 1 WLR 1301, where the testator drafted his will and signed it. He then took it to his friends (a couple) for attestation. When he arrived at their ho......
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Requirements for Valid Execution
...at execution but is included in section 9 to save a will which might otherwise have been invalidly executed. In Couser v Couser [1996] 3 All ER 256, the testator, T, completed and signed a printed will form. He took it to his friends, Mr and Mrs B, for witnessing. Mrs B signed the will, alt......