Seanad debates

Thursday, 5 May 2005

Registration of Deeds and Title Bill 2004: Second Stage (Resumed).

 

1:00 pm

Photo of Michael McDowellMichael McDowell (Dublin South East, Progressive Democrats)

I am taken by the last proposal. If I can write off my house, it would be useful. I was also taken by Senator Leyden's comments about wills. That one can effectively revoke one document with another while the whereabouts of the revoking document is a complete mystery is an extraordinary system. Wills must be registered in some countries but there are implications to registration, such as the privacy of the testator. If, during the lifetime of someone who has made a will in favour of a nephew, a new will is discovered by the nephew upon consulting a register in Dublin, all hell can break loose among the legatees under the first will.

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