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Appointment definition What does Appointment mean? In legal practice, an appointment is the contract by which a client/employer engages a professional consultant (for example an architect, engineer, quantity surveyor or project manager) and sets the services, fee basis and allocation of risk. The term is descriptive and used across multiple contexts; it is not generally defined by legislation, though particular regulations refer to specific appointments (for example, construction safety roles). An appointment may be executed as a deed or as a simple contract, including by a letter of appointment. In England & Wales, Northern Ireland and Ireland this distinction affects limitation (typically around 12 years...
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Republication of Wills by Re-execution or Codicil: Effects, Legacies, Intermediate Wills and Limitations
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Nature of republication
Publication once meant the testator told the witnesses the Will was theirs at the time of signing. That step is no longer required in modern practice. Section 13 of the Wills Act 1837 states that any Will executed in the prescribed manner is valid without further publication. No separate act of publication is required. Revival and republication have distinct roles and are not interchangeable concepts. Revival reinstates a revoked Will or codicil in law. If a testator has cancelled their Will and wishes to bring it back into effect, they may write it out again and execute it in line with WA 1837, s 9 (see WA 1837, s 22), as the statute provides. By contrast, republication merely affirms an unrevoked testamentary document. The term itself has drawn criticism; Lord Porte in Berkeley described it as ‘an expression now meaningless, but still unhappily in use’.
Republication methods
Republication may occur in two ways: express or constructive republication.
Express republication
Express republication happens where the testator re-executes their Will, observing the necessary attestation formalities for the explicit purpose of republishing it.
Constructive republication
Constructive republication arises when a testator makes a codicil to their Will or some testamentary...
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