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Claiming a Promised Inheritance: A Comparative Study

Claiming a Promised Inheritance: A Comparative Study

Author: Alexandra Braun
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 9780198757252
Published In: September 2022
Format: Hardback
Jurisdiction: U.K. ? Disclaimer:
Countri(es) stated herein are used as reference only

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Claiming a Promised Inheritance examines those cases where a person is promised a future inheritance and, having acted on it, later discovers that the promise is unfulfilled. The book structures its analysis and argument around the stories of disappointed promisees and their unfulfilled expectations of a future inheritance, and how they might seek redress. It maps and compares the various, and often very diverse range of legal responses that a promisee can avail herself of across different legal areas of the law (ranging from contract law to property law, employment law, unjust and unjustified enrichment law, and succession law) and in both common and civil law traditions. Braun asks how these responses protect the interests of promisees and whether they are sensitive to the context in which such promises are expressed. In doing so, the focus rests on the level of protection the various forms of redress grant, their scope, and the challenges promisees face when brining a claim, but also on the values and interests that are at stake when granting relief.

This book argues that due to the social and legal context within which promises of a future inheritance are normally made, promisees are usually in a vulnerable position that can easily by exploited. It further argues that the law is usually more acutely attuned to the risks that the promisor incurs and that greater attention should be paid to the challenges promisees face. Claiming a Promised Inheritance thus complements the traditional viewpoint by bringing into focus the (too often ignored) perspective of promisees.

Introduction

Part I - Introducing the promisee's perspective

1:The social context

2:The legal context

Part II - Obtaining what was promised

3:Establishing the existence of a contract

4:Establishing detrimental reliance on the promise

5:Establishing the moral duty of a promisor to provide for the promisee

6:Establishing the promisor's enrichment in Canadian law

Part III - Obtaining less than what was promised

7:Establishing a claim under the New Zealand Law Reform (Testamentary Promises) Act 1949

8:Implying an employment relationship