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Terminology in a Will, clarification??

SevenOfNine · 2012-03-01 07:09:53

If a signed and witnessed Will states "I bequeath all my personal property and the contents of my Council house and garage to ........." (the name and address of the beneficiary there at the end), does that mean EVERYTHING - including all monies etc? Or is this a badly worded Will, open to interpretation and opening a…

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xylophone Posts: 45,602 Forumite

3 March 2012 at 8:53PM

I believe the shortest will read "All to Mother"

Indeed - and the testator's wife was known as "Mother" (but so were his mother and mother-in-law, both still in the land of the living at the point where he was gathered to glory.....

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