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Wills: A binding contract
Mark Pawlowski examines the problems associated with mutual wills and suggests some ways of avoiding them ‘Where the subject matter of the mutual wills specifically includes land and a separate will is used for each party, the parties‘ agreement may be potentially void as failing to meet the requirements of s2(1) of the 1989 Act.‘ …
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- Carr v Isard [2007] WTLR 409
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