Re Walker (deceased) Clarke v Walker and Others - [1973] 1 NZLR 449

Wills — Construction — Class gift to children of testatrix with substitutionary gift to issue of any child who predeceased the testatrix — After date of will son of testatrix predeceased her leaving a daughter — Daughter adopted by her mother and her mother's second husband — Daughter not issue of deceased son of testatrix.

Wills — Admissibility of extrinsic evidence — Evidence of intention of testatrix not permitted — Mistake as to the legal effect of language used no ground for altering construction of will.

Infants and children — Adoption — Effect of order — Child adopted after death of her father by her mother and mother's second husband — As from date of order child ceased to be child of her father — Adoption Act 1955, s 16.