Administration of Estate (33)
HELD:
"By virtue of Section 1 (3) of the Administration of Estate Law, customary law of succession applied to the inheritance of the residual estate, once the portion due to the spouse is reckoned without.
HELD:
"Sub-Section (1) of the Section 49 of the said law providing that "the residuary estate of an intestate shall be distributed in the manner - mentioned in this Section" was not at all considered.
HELD:
"The Appellants' Counsel has cited Section 33 of the High Court Law of Kaduna State and has submitted that from the provisions of the said Section, the jurisdiction of the High Court is not automatic but must be exercised in conjunction with Section 34 of the same law.
HELD:
HELD:
"The law is settled that a person who desires to make a Will must satisfy the requirement of law for the Will to be valid, else it will be invalid.
HELD:
"A Will or Testament is a legal document by which a person, the testator, expresses his wishes as to how his property is to be distributed at death.
HELD:
"For a Will to be valid the following must be established:-