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16 February 2011
Issue: 7453 / Categories: Case law , Law digest
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Wills

Marley v Rawlings and another[2011] EWHC 161 (Ch), [2011] All ER (D) 43 (Feb)

The difference between signing the wrong will and signing a carbon copy of one’s own could not be said to be a difference of degree and not substance. It was not the piece of paper that mattered but the words recording the testamentary intention. The effect of signing the wrong document rendered the whole, and not merely part, of the document invalid.

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