Animus testandi

Commentary – Rossdale: Probate and Administration of Estates ¶17-020

Capacity

Burden of proof

Commentary – Rossdale: Probate and Administration of Estates ¶18-090

Court of Protection

Commentary – Rossdale: Probate and Administration of Estates ¶18-120

Diminished, execution by testator

Commentary – Rossdale: Probate and Administration of Estates ¶18-110

Full, instructions by testator

Commentary – Rossdale: Probate and Administration of Estates ¶18-110

Lack of

Commentary – Rossdale: Probate and Administration of Estates ¶18-030 ; Rossdale: Probate and Administration of Estates ¶21-040

Standard of proof

Commentary – Rossdale: Probate and Administration of Estates ¶18-100

Capacity, test for

Application in Banks v Goodfellow

Commentary – Rossdale: Probate and Administration of Estates ¶18-050 ; Rossdale: Probate and Administration of Estates ¶18-080

Delusions

Commentary – Rossdale: Probate and Administration of Estates ¶18-080

Effects of dementia

Commentary – Rossdale: Probate and Administration of Estates ¶18-060

Facts that must be proven

Commentary – Rossdale: Probate and Administration of Estates ¶18-070

Generally

Commentary – Rossdale: Probate and Administration of Estates ¶18-040

Choice of claim, suspicious circumstances or coercion

Commentary – Rossdale: Probate and Administration of Estates ¶18-180

Coercion

Commentary – Rossdale: Probate and Administration of Estates ¶18-160

Due execution requirement –

– see due execution of wills

Essential

Commentary – Rossdale: Probate and Administration of Estates ¶20-050

Executed outside England and Wales

Commentary – Rossdale: Probate and Administration of Estates ¶20-020–Rossdale: Probate and Administration of Estates ¶20-030

Forgery

Commentary – Rossdale: Probate and Administration of Estates ¶18-190

Formal

Commentary – Rossdale: Probate and Administration of Estates ¶17-010–Rossdale: Probate and Administration of Estates ¶17-130

Fraud

Commentary – Rossdale: Probate and Administration of Estates ¶18-190

Overlap between lack of capacity and want of knowledge and approval

Commentary – Rossdale: Probate and Administration of Estates ¶18-150

Requirements

Commentary – Rossdale: Probate and Administration of Estates ¶17-020

Substantive

Considerations

Commentary – Rossdale: Probate and Administration of Estates ¶18-020

General requirements

Commentary – Rossdale: Probate and Administration of Estates ¶18-010

Generally

Commentary – Rossdale: Probate and Administration of Estates ¶18-010–Rossdale: Probate and Administration of Estates ¶18-190

Suspicious circumstances

Choice of claim

Commentary – Rossdale: Probate and Administration of Estates ¶18-180

Generally

Commentary – Rossdale: Probate and Administration of Estates ¶18-140

Undue influence

Full particularisation

Commentary – Rossdale: Probate and Administration of Estates ¶18-180

Generally

Commentary – Rossdale: Probate and Administration of Estates ¶18-160–Rossdale: Probate and Administration of Estates ¶18-180

Non-commercial relationship

Commentary – Rossdale: Probate and Administration of Estates ¶18-160

Standard of proof

Commentary – Rossdale: Probate and Administration of Estates ¶18-170

Unsuccessful allegation

Commentary – Rossdale: Probate and Administration of Estates ¶18-180

Want of knowledge/approval

Commentary – Rossdale: Probate and Administration of Estates ¶18-140

Witnesses – competence issues

Blindness

Commentary – Rossdale: Probate and Administration of Estates ¶17-080

Generally

Commentary – Rossdale: Probate and Administration of Estates ¶17-070

Mental incapacity

Commentary – Rossdale: Probate and Administration of Estates ¶17-100

Minors

Commentary – Rossdale: Probate and Administration of Estates ¶17-090