McAllister v Public Trustee - [1947] NZLR 334

Executors and Administrators — Claims — Work done under Promise of Testamentary Provision — Whether such Promise may be in respect of a Past Consideration — Necessity for Offer and Acceptance making Services or Work referable to a "Promise" — Insufficiency of Mere Unilateral Expression of Intention — Whether Promise of a Specific Devise of Land within Statutory Provision — "Express or implied promise" — "Testamentary provision" — Law Reform Act, 1944, s 3.