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Deathbed Gifts: At a crossroads
Adam Carvalho and Alice Kendle explore the slippery and amphibious doctrine of donatio mortis causa ‘Unless the donor revokes the gift before death, when the donor dies their personal representative holds the property on trust for the donee.’ The case of King v The Chiltern Dog Rescue [2015] (King) has clarified – and restricted – …
Cases Referenced
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- Hedges v Hedges (1708) Prec Ch. 269
- King v The Chiltern Dog Rescue & anor [2015] EWCA Civ 581; [2015] WTLR 1225 CA
- Re Beaney [1978] 1 WLR 770
- Re Beaumont [1902] 1 Ch 892
- 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