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Deathbed Gifts: Keeping control
Mark Pawlowski examines to what extent it is possible to make a deathbed gift of land ‘The handing over of keys to the house… may be capable of evidencing the passing of dominion over it because, although keys do not represent ownership of the property, they nevertheless constitute the physical means of obtaining possession.’ Essentially, …
Cases Referenced
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- Birch v Treasury Solicitor [1951] 1 Ch 298
- Cooper and Macdonald v Seversen (1956) 1 DLR (2d) 161
- Costiniuk v Official Administrator (2000) BCSC 1372; (2002) BCCA 125
- King v Dubrey [2014] EWHC 2083 (Ch)
- Re Craven's Estate [1937] 1 Ch 423; [1937] 1 Ch 431
- Sen v Headley [1990] Ch 728; [1991] EWCA Civ 13
- Vallee v Birchwood [2013] EWHC 1449 (Ch); [2013] WTLR 1095
- Ward v Turner [1752] 2 Ves Sen 431
- Woodward v Woodward [1992] RTR 35