Riggs V's Palmer

(2.) - Allowing the murderer to get his rewards from the will after killing the testator for it, will reward the murderer for his crime. This is controversial because it is not necessarily rewarding the criminal for his crime, in this case the criminal is being rewarded because it was part of a legal document called a will in which when the person who wrote the will passes away, then the people on the will should get their rewards. It does not say on the will that the grandson should not be granted his rewards because he murdered his grandfather to earn his rewards faster. A legal document is document that should be fulfilled based on its criteria and since there is not fine print said and/or written down stating anything about murder or death by a person on the will, therefore the defendant should be allowed to receive his money due to the fact that it is a legal document being analyzed and followed not the fact of his crime. A criminal is punished for his actions that he committed such as the poisoning of the grandfather. However that does not say he should not be rewarded because his crime has nothing to do with what the legal document says. (6.) The rewards that an individual deserved was given to the person even if there was a crime committed. This premise is too vague. No actual evidence was given that states that a person was rewarded all the time even if they did commit a type of crime. There is no fine print in a statute or a law that says a person should not be given a reward or his property due to the fact that a crime was committed. There is however a present legal document which is the will itself and what it does say in clear print is that the defendant should be entitled to his property it does not say anything about exceptions on the will. In your argument, you used several examples that stated ways on how the defendant would have maybe been denied his property. The problem with all your ways is that they are all just assumed. Take for example the one where you had said that what if the grandson would have passed away before the grandfather did and now the defendant would not been entitled to his part of the property. You also used the example of what if the grandson and the grandfather would have gotten into some sort of confrontation whether it would have been physical or verbal. You had stated that this in some way, shape, or form would have also possibly denied the defendant of getting his part of the property from the will. You had also stated what if the grandfather would have changed his mind about giving his grandson anything in his will at all? All of your ways to try to deny the defendant of his part of the will is all "what-if?" scenarios. You are just assuming several situations that you are not sure whether it would have happened or not. You had also argued in your argument that the defendant should not get his part of the property from the will because it is like altering the will of the grandfather. That is not true because nothing was physically changed from what was written in the original will. The point is to give the reward to the grandson because it is part of the will. I understand it may seem as if it is "altering" the will due to the fact that the defendant reached his reward by doing his own means. However if the defendant does not get his money that will be altering and changing the will because now you are going against the will of the person that is deceased. How is it possible that you accuse of the defendant f changing the will when it is the court that wants to alter the will by not changing the will? and even so, what if none of your "what-if?" scenarios would have never happened? in m opinion the defendant would have still gotten the money. Those "what-if?" scenarios are also a change of the will itself since now you are trying to force the will to change by throwing in ways that would necessarily deny the defendant of his property. The will has not been altered in any way since the grandfather has died why are you trying to force a change?