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Boyle v Boyle’s Exor, 1999 SC 479

Boyle v Boyle’s Exor, 1999 SC 479


Citation: Boyle v Boyle’s Exor, 1999 SC 479

Link to case on WorldLII.

Rule of thumb: If a person was in a weak state when a will was made to benefit a certain disproportionately, is it valid will? No, it will be presumed that this is invalid.

Judgment:

‘I am satisfied that signature of the July will was, at the least, procured by the use of the defender’s control and influence over her at a time when was plainly in a state of facility’, at Lord Eassie 493

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