Lawrence v Kete and Others

JurisdictionEngland & Wales
Judgment Date01 January 1681
Date01 January 1681
CourtCourt of the King's Bench

English Reports Citation: 82 E.R. 912

King's Bench Division

Lawrence
and
Kete and Others

START [54] paso. 24 car. banco regis. lawrence versus kete and others. Ejectione firmae. id an ejectione firtnse upon issue whether it were a deviae by will in writing or not, between Mrs. Dunsh, widow, and Edmund Dunsh the heir: the case upon the evidence was, that Dunsh the husband, being aick, said, that he devised all his lands to his wife for life, and limited several remainders of several parcels of them; and about an hour after wished and desired that one Kete were there to write his will: whereupon the wife, without acquainting her husband with it, sent for Kete, who from the mouth of the witnesses which heard the devise wrote the same; but because they differed in their testimony touching the limitation of the remainders, he wrote two willsj and this was without privity of the husband, who before the writing finished became senseless, and soon after died : and the original writings were both lost, but a copy testified to be of the same effect was produced; and after much dispute it was agreed by the Court, and so given in charge to the jury. A1EYN.B8. PASCH. 24 CAR. BANCO REGIS 913 1. That an actual devise by word is no sufficient ground for a stranger to write the will, but there ought to be an actual will, and desire that it should be written, and a bare wishing ia not sufficient, but there ought to be an actual willing. 2. That this desire ought to be in some short apace after the devise, so that it be as one continued act; for if the devise be at one time, and at another time the devisor sends for one to write his will, a new declaration will be necessary to make it effectual. 3. That an...

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