Thread by @Hareshraichura

Thread about how Judges examine a document when a doubt is expressed about genuineness of that document.

1/ The question was about genuineness of a Will.

The man claimed "He was servant of the deceased. All his relatives had left him in his old age.
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2/ He was looking after all court cases between deceased and his sons. Being pleased with his service, the old man, before dying, signed one page typed will, in which one property was given to him."

There was doubt about genuineness of this Will.

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3/ Judge examined the Will like a Detective.

It was possible that this man may have obtained signature of old man for purpose filing some case and then he may have misused this paper for making Will in his favour.

Judge carefully looked at Will.

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4/ It was typed on one page in double space.

But last four lines of will were in single space. This indicated that signature was first obtained on blank paper and then to accomodate writing, last four lines were squeezed into single space typing, just till above the signature.

5/ The Judge refused to believe the Will after looking at this as well as other circumstances which made this Will suspicious.

His judgement was upheld by all superior courts.

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6/ In cases of disputed Will, the Judge is required to give effact wishes of dead man.

So he tries to guess what could be the real wishes of the dead man. For this purpose he looks at circumstances at time of his death.

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