In the Goods of Matthews
| Jurisdiction | England & Wales |
| Date | 1898 |
| Year | 1898 |
| Court | Probate, Divorce and Admiralty Division |
[PROBATE DIVORCE AND ADMIRALTY DIVISION]
IN THE GOODS OF MATTHEWS.
1897 Nov. 22.
SIR F. H. JEUNE, PRESIDENT.
Probate - Presumption of Death - Time of Application.
The Court, on proof of sufficient inquiries, allowed the death of a testator to be sworn three years after his disappearance.
APPLICATION for leave to depose that the death of the testator had occurred on or since November 24, 1894.
James Matthews, aged seventy-three, disappeared from his home in Chatham Road, Wandsworth, on November 24, 1894, and was not afterwards heard of.
He had retired from business, and, at the time of his disappearance, was living with his wife's sister and her husband...
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3 cases
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Re Wong Sook Mun Christina
...Khee v Legal Representative of the Estate of Ong Koh Tee, deceased [1994] 2 SLR (R) 212; [1994] 2 SLR 769 (refd) Matthews, In the Goods of [1898] P 17 (refd) N Prem Ananthi v Tahsildar, CoimbatoreAIR 1989 Mad 248 (refd) Narayan Bhagwant v Shriniwas Trimbak (1905) 8 Bombay LR 226 (refd) Osma......
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Tolley, re Fisher
...the court was prepared to give leave sooner in clear cases or where there was otherwise good reason: see eg In the goods of Matthews [1898] P 17 (three 15 Since the 2013 Act came into force, standard practitioner works such as Tristram and Coote's Probate Practice (32 nd ed, 2020, [25.19] f......
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Kamouh v Associated Electrical Industries International Ltd
...[1963] 2 W.L.R. 846; [1963] 2 All E.R. 59, C.A. Macaulay v. Guaranty Trust Co. of New York (1927) 44 T.L.R. 99. Matthews, In the Goods of [1898] P. 17. Mabro v. Eagle, Star and British Dominions Insurance Co. Ltd. [1932] 1 K.B. 485, C.A. Scott v. Bentley (1855) 1 K. & J. 281. Thiery v. ......