Electronic wills in South Africa

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  • Sizwe Snail
  • Nicholas Hall

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https://doi.org/10.14296/deeslr.v7i0.1925

Abstract

Sizwe Snail and Nicholas Hall set out the provisions for wills in South Africa, including the provisions of the Electronic Communication Transaction Act that expressly exclude a data message as a method of executing a valid will. They then consider the case of Macdonald v The Master, in which the court held that a draft will in the form of an electronically stored document which was stored on a computer hard-disk, can be condoned in terms of the Wills Act.

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Sizwe Snail

Nicholas Hall

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