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Unusual Will Provisions from England & Wales

By Gerry W. Beyer

A website in the United Kingdom contains a variety of very interesting will provisions.  Examples include:

  • the shortest dispositive provision ("vse zene"),
  • the anti-vampire clause (“My doctor is to drive a steel stake through my heart to make sure that I am properly dead”) (but I thought it had to be a wooden stake), and
  • Heinrich Heine’s famous remarriage clause (his wife’s gift conditioned on her remarrying so “there will be at least one man to regret my death”).

Originally published at willstrustsestates.lawprofessorsblogs.com

Citation

Gerry W. Beyer, Unusual Will Provisions from England & Wales, Wills, Trusts & Estates Prof Blog (February 21, 2005) [The Library at LexBlog, LEX-WK-4JXR20JM, lexpid.org/4JXR20JM]

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