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Wills: A binding contract
Mark Pawlowski examines the problems associated with mutual wills and suggests some ways of avoiding them ‘Where the subject matter of the mutual wills specifically includes land and a separate will is used for each party, the parties‘ agreement may be potentially void as failing to meet the requirements of s2(1) of the 1989 Act.‘ …
Cases Referenced
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- Carr v Isard [2007] WTLR 409
- Charles v Fraser [2010] WTLR 1489
- Goodchild & anor v Goodchild [1997] EWCA Civ 1611
- Gray & ors v The Perpetual Trustee Co Ltd & anor [1928] UKPC 56
- Healey v Brown [2002] WTLR 849
- Re Cleaver deceased [1981] 1 WLR 939
- Re Walters; Olins v Walters [2007] EWHC 3060 (Ch); [2008] WTLR 339; [2008] EWCA Civ 782
- Re Wilford‘s Estate (1879) LR 11 Ch D 267
- Robinson v Ommanney (1883) 23 Ch D 285
- Taylor v Dickens [1998] 1 FLR 806