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Capacity for a will: The Banks test

Thursday, October 31, 2019 @ 8:47 AM | By Kim Gale and Matthew McEnery

The test for testamentary capacity was established in Banks v. Goodfellow L.R., [1870] C.C.S. NO. 69, and has survived until the present day. While the case has endured as the benchmark of...