Re Morris, decd
| Jurisdiction | England & Wales |
| Date | 1970 |
| Court | Probate, Divorce and Admiralty Division |
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80 cases
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Gill v Woodall & Others
...repeated and followed by Hill J in Gregson v. Taylor [1917] P 256, 261, whose approach was referred to with approval by Latey J in In re Morris deceased [1971] P 62, 77F–78B Hill J said that “when it is proved that a will has been read over to or by a capable testator, and he then executes ......
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1. Royal National Institute for Deaf People (A company Ltd by guarantee no. 00454169 and registered charity no. 207720) and Others v Adrian Alan Turner
...generally, be better to adopt is that summarised by Sachs J in the unreported case of Crerar v. Crerar, cited and followed by Latey J in Morris [1971] P 62, 78E-G, namely that the court should: "consider all the relevant evidence available and then, drawing such inferences as it can from th......
- Tob Weng Keong and Another v Tob Chee Hoong
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Louise Michelle Reeves v Clayton Peter Drew
...followed by Hill J in Gregson v Taylor [1917] P 256, 261, whose approach was referred to with approval by Latey J in In re Morris, decd [1971] P 62, 77F–78B. Hill J said that when it is proved that a will has been read over to or by a capable testator, and he then executes it, the grave and......
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10 books & journal articles
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Revocation of a Will
...of Oswald (1874) LR 3 P & D 162, O’Learly v Douglass (1878) 1 LR IR 45, Re Resch’s Will Trusts [1969] 1 AC 514 and In Re Morris Deceased [1971] P 62, concluded (at [32]): ... it is clear that prior to the Administration of Justice Act 1982 it was open to the court, when considering which wi......
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Table of Cases
...and Mitchell v Gard and Kingwell (1863) 3 Sw & Tr 275, 164 ER 1280 225 Morris deceased, Re; Lloyds Bank Ltd v Peake (Hurdwell cited) [1971] P 62, [1970] 2 WLR 865, [1970] 1 All ER 1057, 113 Sol Jo 923, PD&A 72, 107 Mulhall v Mulhall [1936] IR 712, Ir HC 32 Murphy v Murphy. See Holland v Mur......
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Solicitors' will-making duties.
...I'). (61) Ibid 690. (62) Robert Megarry, `Note' (1965) 81 Law Quarterly Review 478, 481. (63) [1999] 1 WLR 729, 739, 742. (64) Re Morris [1971] P 62, 75. (65) See, eg, Viscardi, 510 NYS 2d 183 (Sup Ct App Div 2d Dept, 1986). (66) See, eg, Buckley, 42 P 900 (Cal, 1895); Walker [1999] 1 WLR 7......
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Knowledge and Approval
...merely casts his/her eye over the will, it may not be sufficient to establish knowledge and approval of the contents (see Re Morris [1971] P 62). If the testator/testatrix suffered from a physical disability, for example if he/she was mute and instructions were taken through a sign language......
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