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Title: The Concept of moral duty in the law of family provision - a gloss or critical understanding?
Related: Australian journal of legal history, Vol. 5, Issue 1, p.5-27
Publisher: University of Adelaide
Date: 1999
Author/Creator: Atherton, Rosalind
Description: The presence of the moral duty test in the distribution of property allowing the court to override a testator's intentions through the operation of family provision legislation - existence of the moral duty test as evident in Re Allardice - the meaning given to moral duty by the judiciary - origin of the moral duty approach.
Description: 23 page(s)
Subject Keyword: family law
Subject Keyword: legal history
Subject Keyword: property law
Subject Keyword: wills
Resource Type: journal article
Organisation: Macquarie University. Dept. of Law

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