"I REVOKE" IN A WILL

Evening Post, Volume CXIX, Issue 88, 13 April 1935, Page 18

"I REVOKE" IN A WILL

The inconvenience of the timehonoured phrase, printed on a will form—"l hereby revoke all wills made heretofore by me, arid declare this to be *my last will and testament" was pointed out. by Mr. Justice Bucknill in the Probate Court, London, when he held that such a document by a lady doctor, Dr. Lilian Ena . Whatney, of Rosehill, Hoddesdon, did not upset an earlier will.. Dr. Whatney, he said, made a will on January 14, 1932, disposing "of her English estate of £4000, and then went out as a medical missionary of the China Inland Mission. In Shanghai, during the following March, she executed a will leaving £200 worth of property: in China to the Mission, and that will had to be brought before the court because it contained this inconvenient but common phrase, though there were written upon it the words: "This relates only to my property in China." It was a will-form, said the Judge, which he was told was drafted 40 years ago. With these words, it had been submitted, the document rendered nugatory the will made in England, and left an intestacy as to £4000. But he noted phrases in the English document which showed an intention by •Dr.- Whatney to treat as separ~'2 her English and Chinese estates, and he accordingly found that the English will, was established, though a later testamerit decreed that all previous wills had been abrogated.

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