Administration and probate — Intestacy — Estate less than 1,000l. — Child of intestate adopted — Rights of intestate's widow — Bona vacantia — Adoption of Children Act 1928 (No. 3605), sec. 7 — Administration and Probate Act 1928 (No. 3632), secs. 45, 46, 47 — Statute Law Revision Act 1933 (No. 4191), sec. 2, Schedule.

Administration and probate - Intestacy - Disappearance of next of kin more than seven years before intestate - Commorientes - Distribution of estate - Survivorship - Presumption of death - Whether s184 of the Property Law Act 1958 applies - Property Law Act 1958 (No. 6344), s184.

Administration and probate - Intestacy - Validity of deceased's marriage - Wife's status at time of marriage - Disappearance of first husband - Whether first husband should be presumed dead - Presumption of continuance - Presumption of innocence of crime of bigamy - Presumption of death of first husband - Presumption of validity of marriage - Children of the deceased born before marriage - Registration of Births, Deaths and Marriages Act 1958 (No. 6356), s30, s31.

Administration and probate - Intestacy - Application for letters of administration - Mental incapacity of only person entitled to distribution - To whom grant should be made - English practice - Victorian practice - Administration and Probate Act 1958 (No.6191), s50 - Supreme Court (Probate and Administration) Rules 1985, O.1, r41.

Administration and probate — Intestacy — Application for distribution order — Multiple partners of deceased — Deceased survived by estranged spouse and unregistered domestic partner — Claim for entirety of estate — Whether claimant an unregistered domestic partner of deceased at time of death — Whether just and equitable to allocate whole of residuary estate to one partner to exclusion of other — Administration and Probate Act 1958 (Vic), ss 3(1), 70ZA, 70ZD, 70ZE

Words and phrases — ‘just and equitable’