Dead sailor left pounds 582K to aunt, 98; INHERITANCE.Byline: STEPHEN WHITE A 98-YEAR-OLD woman has inherited her sailor nephew's pounds 582,000 fortune. Ashley Servoz-Gavin said he wanted his aunt Anne Ayling to have everything if he "snuffed it" at sea. Mrs Ayling, from Leeds, got her reward after a court ruled she should inherit his estate. Mr Servoz-Gavin never signed a will but under the 1837 Wills Act he did not need to because a "mariner Mariner Any of a series of unmanned U.S. space probes sent near Venus, Mars, and Mercury. Mariners 2 (1962) and 5 (1967) passed Venus within 22,000 mi (35,000 km) and 2,500 mi (4,000 km), respectively, and made measurements of temperature and atmospheric density. " only had to express his wish orally. Awarding Mrs Ayling her inheritance, Judge Peter Langan at the High Court accepted that, in 1990, as he went off to sea, Mr Servoz-Gavin had told Mrs Ayling's niece: "If I snuff snuff, preparation of pulverized tobacco used by sniffing it into the nostrils, chewing it, or placing it between the gums and the cheek. The blended tobacco from which it is made is often aged for two or three years, fermented at least twice, ground, and usually it, I want everything to go to Auntie Anne." The court heard that as a child Ashley was ignored by many of his family because he was illegitimate ILLEGITIMATE. That which is contrary to law; it is usually applied to children born out of lawful wedlock. A bastard is sometimes called an illegitimate child. . His Auntie Anne was a "shining exception". Ashley died of a heart attack, aged 59, in 2005. CAPTION(S): AWARD At the High Court |
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