Succession Law

This subject contains a comprehensive list of the cases covered in the study of Succession Law, including Intestacy, Wills, Testamentary Capacity, Rectification, Revocation, Alterations and Republications of Wills, Grants of Representation,, Gifts, Family Provisions and the Administration of Estates.

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Allen v Maddock (1858) 14 ER 757

Andrews v Hogan (1952) 86 CLR 223

Astridge v Pepper [1970] 1 NSWLR 542

Bailey v Bailey (1924) 34 CLR 558

Ball v Newey (1988) 13 NSWLR 489

Banks v Goodfellow (1870) LR 5 QB 549

Bates v Messner (1967) 67 SR (NSW) 187

Bath v British and Malayan Trustees (1969) 90 WN (pt 1) (NSW) 44

Benney v Jones (1991) 23 NSWLR 559

Bird v Perpetual Executors and Trustees Association of Australia (1946) 73 CLR 140

Birmingham v Renfrew (1936) 57 CLR 666

Bosch v Perpetual Trustee Co [1938] AC 463

Bull v Fulton (1942) 66 CLR 295

Cadell v Wilcocks [1898] P 21

Cash v Nominal Defendant (1969) 90 WN (pt 1) (NSW) 77

Cetojevic v Cetojevic [2007] NSWCA 33

Cheese v Lovejoy (1877) LR 2 P 251

Churton v Christian (1988) 13 NSWLR 241

Colyton Investments v McSorley (1962) 107 CLR 177

Corbett v Newey [1996] 3 WLR 729

Dalrymple v Melville (1932) 32 SR (NSW) 596

Doe v Perkes (1820) 106 ER 740

Ebert v Healy (1969) 89 WN (pt 1) (NSW) 479

Fairweather v Fairweather (1944) 69 CLR 121

Ffinch v Combe [1894] P 191

Fischer v Howe [2013] NSWSC 462

Fulton v Andrew (1875) LR 7 HL 448

Fung v Ye [2007] NSWCA 115

Goods of Hall (1871) LR 2 P and D 256

Goods of Itter [1950] P 130

Goods of Sykes (1873) 3 P and D 26

Gorton v Parks (1989) 17 NSWLR 1

Guest v Webb [1965] VR 427

Halbert v Mynar [1981] NSWLR 659

Hall v Hall (1868) 1 P and D 481

Hindson v Weatherill (1854) 43 ER 886

In re Buckley's Trusts (1883) 22 Ch D 583

In re Carlton [1924] VLR 237

In re Tait [1957] VR 405

In the Estate of Bohrman [1938] 1 All ER 271

In the Estate of Brian [1974] 2 NSWLR 231

In the Estate of Horne (1920) 20 SR (NSW) 531

In the Estate of Knibbs [1962] 2 All ER 829

In the Estate of Masters (1994) 33 NSWLR 446

In the Estate of Meyer [1908] P 353

In the Estate of Niven (1921) 21 SR (NSW) 702

In the Estate of Southerden [1925] P 177

In the Goods of Adams (1872) 2 P and D 367

In the Goods of Fraser (1869) LR 2 P and D 40

In the Goods of Oswald (1874) LR 3 P and D 162

In the Goods of Spratt (1897) P 28

In the Goods of Steele (1868) 1 P and D 575

In the Goods of Tamplin [1894] P 39

In the Will of Boyd (1959) 59 SR (NSW) 369

In the Will of Shannon [1977] 1 NSWLR 210

In the Will of Sheppard [1972] 2 NSWLR 714

In the Will of Walker (1943) 43 SR (NSW) 305

In the Will of Wallace (1934) 51 WN (NSW) 84

Jervis v Wolfenstan (1874) LR 18 Eq 18

Key v Key [2010] EWHC 408 (Ch)

King v White [1992] 2 VR 417

Layer v Burns Philp Trustee Co (1986) 6 NSWLR 60

Levy v Kum Chah (1936) 56 CLR 159

Lippe v Hedderwick (1922) 31 CLR 148

Luciano v Rosenblum (1985) 2 NSWLR 65

McBride v Hudson (1961) 107 CLR 604

McFadden v Public Trustee Association of Australia (Vic) [1981] 1 NSWLR 15

McPhie v Mackay [1975] 2 NSWLR 369

Mortenson v State of New South Wales (NSWCA, unrep, 12.12.1991)

New York Breweries v A-G [1899] AC 62

Nichols v Nichols (1814) 161 ER 1113

Oxford Meat Co v McDonald (1963) 63 SR (NSW) 423

Palmer v Bank of New South Wales (1975) 133 CLR 150

Palmer v Dolman [2005] NSWCA 361

Permanent Trustee Co of New South Wales v Royal Prince Alfred Hospital (1944) 45 SR (NSW) 339

Permanent Trustee Co of New South Wales v Temple [1957] SR (NSW) 301

Perpetual Trustee Co v Killick (1951) 51 SR (NSW) 36

Perpetual Trustee Co v Walker (1941) 41 SR (NSW)

Petrohilos v Hunter (1991) 25 NSWLR 343

Re Application of Brown: Estate of Springfield (1991) 23 NSWLR 535

Re Baron Kensington [1902] 1 Ch 203

Re Beirnstein [1925] 1 Ch 12

Re Birch (1951) 51 SR (NSW) 345

Re Buckland [1966] VR 404

Re Bunting [1974] 2 NZLR 219

Re Clifford [1912] 1 Ch 29

Re Collins' Will Trusts [1971] 1 WLR 37

Re Craig (1952) 52 SR (NSW) 265

Re Devoy [1943] St R Qd 137

Re Everest [1975] 2 WLR 333

Re Fegan [1928] 1 Ch 45

Re Fulop (1987) 8 NSWLR 679

Re John [1933] 1 Ch 370

Re Jones [1976] 1 Ch 200

Re Kempthorne [1930] 1 Ch 268

Re Lindrea [1953] VLR 168

Re Luck [1977] WAR 148

Re Male [1934] VLR 318

Re McCallum (1907) 7 SR (NSW) 523

Re Mills (1968) 88 WN (pt 2) (NSW) 74

Re Murphy [1928] St R Qd 1

Re N [1950] VLR 139

Re Natusch [1963] NZLR 273

Re Owers: Public Trustee v Death [1941] 1 Ch 389

Re Plaister (1934) 34 SR (NSW) 547

Re Plowright [1971] VR 128

Re Rooke [1933] 1 Ch 970

Re Sloan [1943] VLR 63

Re Smith (1890) 45 Ch D 632

Re; Application of J.R. Fenwick & Re Charles [2009] NSWSC 530

Rogers v Goodenough (1862) 164 ER 1028

Ross v Caunters (1979) 3 All ER 580

Roy v Sturgeon (1986) 11 NSWLR 454

Russell v Scott (1936) 55 CLR 440

Sacks v Gridiger (1991) 22 NSWLR 502

Saunders v Vautier (1841) 4 Beav 115; 49 ER 282

Simonis v Perpetual Trustee Co Ltd (1987) 21 NSWLR 677

Singer v Berghouse (No 2) (1994) 181 CLR 201

Sweetland v Sweetland (1865) 164 ER 1416

Synge v Synge [1894] QB 466

Thornton v Brunsden (1956) 56 SR (NSW) 265

Timbury v Coffee (1941) 66 CLR 277

Vanvalen v Neaves [2005] NSWSC 593

Wade v Harding (1987) 11 NSWLR 551

Walford v Walford [1912] AC 658

Weston v Public Trustee (1986) 4 NSWLR 407

Wharton v Bancroft [2011] EWHC 3250 (Ch)

Will of Colless (1941) 41 SR (NSW) 133

Willgoss v Ward (1921) 22 SR (NSW) 61

Williams and Williams (1882) 20 Ch D 659

Williams v Ashton (1860) 70 ER 685

Wingrove v Wingrove (1886) 11 P and D 81

Wintle v Nye [1959] 1 All ER 552

Woodhead v Perpetual Trustee Co (1987) 11 NSWLR 267

Ye v Fung [2006] NSWSC 243