Riggs V's Palmer

(10.) Just because the testator may have changed his will due to the fact of the crime does not effect the real question being asked in this case of whether the court can alter or change the will. This is controversial because this may not be the question being asked on the view of other people. Others may think that the question of this case is whether or not the defendant should get his inheritance or not, not that should the will be altered or changed- However this is different than the question that you are proposing. The question you proposed for this case is whether the defendant should get the reward of the property from the grandfather even after the crime he committed by poisoning him and killing him. That I disagree with one hundred percent. This case is not whether or not he gets rewarded or not, it deals mostly with whether the court is going to alter and change the will. Like mentioned before a will is a legal document that fulfills the wishes of a deceased person and the court has no laws or statutes that can aid them in changing or altering the will when dealing with this case. There have been other exceptions to other cases that have changed the will due to other exceptions established by the court the laws have applied to the case. However none of the laws deal with the fact of the defendant killing the person to get his reward from the will. (13.) Allowing the court to not give the property to the one who is listed on the will to receive the property will then make the possibility for the court to give the property away to someone else that the testator may not have wanted to give the property to. This is controversial because we cannot assume that the testator would have not wanted to give the property to the person the court would have given the property to- This example is another reason why the defendant should get his property. Suppose the Court takes away the property of the defendant and now takes the property and decides to pass it on to someone else that the defendant may have not even known. Now there is more changes that have been added to the will by the court implementing more changes to the will. Take for example the court now gives the grandfathers property that was originally designated to go to the defendant, to someone else other than the defendant. We cannot be sure that that is that the grandfather wanted or would have wanted. Maybe the grandfather would have not wanted to give it to someone else, whether he would have known them or not. Or maybe make the scenario worse in which now the land may be given to someone else in the family but the grandfather does not like the person that the property is being given to. Now the court is not only changing and altering the will, but now the court is going against the will by doing things that the grandfather did not want to do or would have not intended to do. That is why the court cannot alter or change the will from the text that it has. Altering and changing the will, will not keep the reason for why wills are for in the first place. A will as mentioned before, should be able to fulfill the wished of the person that requested it and not doing is also breaking the law because a will is a legal document. As you have stated in your argument it is not right for someone to be rewarded for an evil deed or doing. However is it not also wrong if someone is not rewarded their property or belongings when it was intended for them in the first place? Is it not also wrong if the will of a person is changed when it clearly states what that person wanted to do with their belongings and property? Taking away the property from the defendant is like a second punishment to him. Obviously he is going to punished criminally for the criminal act that he committed against his grandfather. Except now, the defendant is also going to be punished by his reward being taken away from him. That is also wrong. A person should be given what another person intended to give them especially from a deed which specifically states what the person would have wanted.