The court was asked to construe a provision in the will.
Held: Ultimately a reference to ‘issue of mine’ was to be read to include the testator’s stepchildren despite initially observing that: ‘The ordinary and natural meaning of the word ‘issue’ does not in its ordinary and natural meaning include stepchildren;’
Judges:
Asplin J
Citations:
[2015] EWHC 946 (Ch), [2015] WTLR 1245
Jurisdiction:
England and Wales
Cited by:
Cited – Jump and Another v Lister and Another ChD 12-Aug-2016
Omnibus Survivorship Clauses
Wills for two people hade been drafted with survivorship clauses which provided for others according to the order in which they died, but in the event, having died together it had been impossible to say which died first. The parties disputed the . .
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Wills and Probate
Updated: 12 April 2022; Ref: scu.570851