NSW Caselaw
New South Wales Supreme Court
CITATION : Miskelly v Arnheim [2008] NSWSC 1075
HEARING DATE(S) : 22 & 23 September 2008
JUDGMENT DATE : 23 September 2008
JURISDICTION : Equity
JUDGMENT OF : Hamilton J
DECISION : Rectification of will refused; rule in Saunders v Vautier applies to the will trusts.
CATCHWORDS : EQUITY [215] – Trusts and trustees – The cestui que trust – Estate of cestui que trust – Right to call for legal estate or indicia of title – Entitlement to terminate trust – Rule in Saunders v Vautier (1841) 4 Beav 115 - SUCCESSION [163] – Wills, probate and administration – Construction and effect of testamentary dispositions – Generally – Changing, transposing, omitting or supplying words – Omitting words – Statutory power of rectification – Nature of power – Evidence to be furnished.
Statute Law (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act (No 2) 2007 LEGISLATION CITED : Succession Act 2006 s 27, Schedule 1 cl 3 Wills, Probate and Administration Act 1898 s 29A
CATEGORY : Principal judgment
CPT Custodian Pty Ltd v Commissioner of State Revenue of the State of Victoria (2005) 224 CLR 98 Mortensen and Eassie v State of New South Wales NSWCA 12 December 1991 unreported Rawack v Spicer [2002] NSWSC 849 Re Estate of Max Frederick Dippert [2001] NSWSC 167 CASES CITED : Re estate of Spinks; Appln of Mortensen and Eassie SCNSW 22 August 1990 unreported Robertson v Allen [2003] NSWSC 848 Saunders v Vautier (1841) 4 Beav 115; 49 ER 282; affd (1841) Cr E Ph 240; 41 ER 482 Sir Moses Montefiore Jewish Home v Howell and Co (No 7) Pty Ltd [1984] 2 NSWLR 406 Trimmer v Lax - estate of M A Fresen NSWSC 9 May 1997 unreported
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