Re Potter's Will Trusts

JurisdictionEngland & Wales
Date1943
CourtCourt of Appeal
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5 cases
  • Ann Marie Llewellyn Young v Louise Hilda Llewellyn
    • Jamaica
    • Supreme Court (Jamaica)
    • 5 Julio 2019
    ...the testatrix to have meant by the words which she used.’ 55 In Charles v Barzey (op. cit) reliance was also placed on the case of Re Potter's Will Trust [1944] Ch 70 at page 77 where Lord Greene had stated that: ‘It is a fundamental rule in the interpretation of wills that effect must be ......
  • Charles v Barzey
    • United Kingdom
    • Privy Council
    • 19 Diciembre 2002
    ...understood the testatrix to have meant by the words which she used. Furthermore, as Lord Greene MR said in In re Potter's Will Trusts [1944] Ch 70, 77: "It is a fundamental rule in the interpretation of wills that effect must be given, so far as possible, to the words which the testator ha......
  • Sylvia Gayle-Henry v Lloyd Gayle and Cedric Gayle
    • Jamaica
    • Court of Appeal (Jamaica)
    • 9 Febrero 2018
    ...to a dispute. See Theobald on Wills, 15th edition, Sweet & Maxwell, 1993 at 199 and Perrin v. Morgan [1943] AC 399 at 406. [34] In Re Potter's Will Trust [1944] Ch 70 at 77 Lord Greene stated that: “It is a fundamental rule in the interpretation of wills that effect must be given, so far as......
  • La Roche v La Roche
    • Trinidad & Tobago
    • High Court (Trinidad and Tobago)
    • 1 Enero 2012
    ...to have, would have understood the testatrix to have meant by the words which she used. Furthermore as Lord Greene MR said in Re Potter's Will Trust (1944) Ch. 70, 77— ‘It is a fundamental rule in the interpretation of wills that effect must be given, so far as possible to the words which t......
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