In the Estate of Meyer
| Jurisdiction | England & Wales |
| Date | 1908 |
| Year | 1908 |
| Court | Probate, Divorce and Admiralty Division |
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7 cases
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Marley v Rawlings and Another
...Hunt (1875) LR 3 P&D 250 (in which two sisters had made similar, but not mirror, wills and each executed that of the other) and Re Meyer [1908] P 353 (in which two sisters made mirror codicils and again executed that of the other), and in both of which cases the disposition was held to be i......
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Marley v Rawlings and Another
...authorities which are directly in point, In the Goods of Hunt (1875) LR 3 P&D 250 ( Re Hunt) and In the estate of Fanny Deborah Meyer [1908] P 353 ( Re Meyer) (and see also In the Goods of F.S (1850) 14 Jur.402) were unhelpful to the appellant's case, they were either wrongly decided and/or......
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Marley v Rawlings (No 2)
...that Sir James Hannen P and Sir Gorell Barnes P took the same view in, respectively, In the Goods of Hunt (1875) LR 3 P&D 250, at 252, and In re Meyer [1908] P 353, 354. Further, as Jeune J pointed out in Boehm at 251, there is obvious "difficulty [in] rejecting words where their rejection......
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4 books & journal articles
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Table of Cases
...3 WLR 1015, [2014] 4 All ER 619, [2014] WTLR 1511 228 Marshall v Marshall [1998] EWCA Civ 1467, [1998] 10 WLUK 35 171 Meyer’s Estate, Re [1908] P 353, 77 LJP 150, 52 Sol Jo 716, 99 LT 881, PD&A 29, 64 Minns v Foster [2002] All ER (D) 225 (Dec), ChD 66 Mitchell and Mitchell v Gard and Kingwe......
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Execution of a Will
...signed envelope and the attested document together formed the will. 3.5 EXECUTION OF THE WRONG WILL It was established in Meyer’s Estate [1908] P 353 that if the testator/testatrix executed a will of another person by mistake as his/her own, it would not be valid and probate will be refused......
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Knowledge and Approval
...the contents of the paper as her will, for it is quite clear that if she had known of the contents she would not have signed it’. Re Meyer [1908] P 353, was a similar case where sisters signed each other’s wills by mistake. The will was challenged on two grounds. The first that it ‘must app......
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Case Note
...as alternatives. 18 See accompanying text at n 2 above. 19 c 53 (UK). 20In the Goods of Hunt(1875) LR 3 P & D 250; In the Estate of Meyer[1908] P 353. 21[1946] NZLR 614. 22 See Re Brander[1952] 4 DLR 688. The Canadian court purported to follow Guardian Trust & Executors Co of New Zealand Lt......