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Conditions in wills
I know that people can can say in their will that they'll only leave money to a certain person if they do/ don't do something in particular,but legally, where is the line drawn? For example if they have to murder someone to get the money, which is illegal, is the will void? or does the person get the money anyway? Or if not, what would happen?
Just curoius by the way, i haven't been told to assasinate someone before I get money from a will.
Just curoius by the way, i haven't been told to assasinate someone before I get money from a will.
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Just how is anybody going to prevent that wording appearing in a will? After all no one but the deceased has a right to see it until after his death.
I don't know if the bequest would be declared void (and the person gates nothing) or the condition (and the person gets it regardless). It might take an interesting court case to find out
I don't know if the bequest would be declared void (and the person gates nothing) or the condition (and the person gets it regardless). It might take an interesting court case to find out
Even tohugh I've usually always wanted to be a scientist of some kind or another, when i was about 10 or 11 there was a point when i wanted to be barrister, but one of my cousins told me law was realy boring at uni and she'd dropped out plus my friend pointed out that it meant standing up infront of a lot of people and making speaches, and at that point I hated doing that kind of stuff. Although I'm getting better and even went up at the cadets award night to present the best instructors award and had to make a little speach up, on my way there, in which I roughly said, 'The winner of this trophy is voted for, by the cadets, and is awarded to the instructor who we feel helped us the msot throughout this year <peeled sticker off the bit with the name on> <pause for dramatic effect> and the award goes to PO . . . . , smile, shake hands with PO . . . . and give ehr the award and have a photo together.
I studied this last semester...
On a hunch (haven't reviewed my notes in a while - at the end of a massive to-do list) I'd say the provision would be void and therefore no money would go to that person because it's an (legal) impossible condition to impose and that person's claim to the money would be entirely dependent on that condition.
However - this clause would most likely never happen in real life, the money would just stay in the pot and either go to others on the will or to whomever the remainder has been designated.
On a hunch (haven't reviewed my notes in a while - at the end of a massive to-do list) I'd say the provision would be void and therefore no money would go to that person because it's an (legal) impossible condition to impose and that person's claim to the money would be entirely dependent on that condition.
However - this clause would most likely never happen in real life, the money would just stay in the pot and either go to others on the will or to whomever the remainder has been designated.