Read the full judgment text of HCAP 8/2008 on BabelCite. This High Court CFI judgment was delivered on 5 August 2011.
1. Because a will only takes effect upon death, after a person makes a will he or she can always alter or revoke it before his or her death. Under section 13 of the Wills Ordinance Cap.30, one of the modes of revocation of a will is by the burning, tearing or otherwise destroying of it by the testator with the intention of revoking it. Thus, when the original of a will cannot be found after the death of a testator, one possibility is that it has been revoked by the testator. Destruction of the o
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