{"id":390,"date":"2018-07-20T19:46:00","date_gmt":"2018-07-20T19:46:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/faculty.law.harvard.edu\/joseph-singer\/?p=390"},"modified":"2023-12-15T21:57:34","modified_gmt":"2023-12-15T21:57:34","slug":"lease-cannot-transfer-landlords-right-to-receive-rents-to-his-daughter-after-his-death-because-it-is-a-testamentary-transfer-that-does-not-comply-with-the-formalities-needed-to-create-a-will","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/faculty.law.harvard.edu\/joseph-singer\/2018\/07\/20\/lease-cannot-transfer-landlords-right-to-receive-rents-to-his-daughter-after-his-death-because-it-is-a-testamentary-transfer-that-does-not-comply-with-the-formalities-needed-to-create-a-will\/","title":{"rendered":"Lease cannot transfer landlord&#8217;s right to receive rents to his daughter after his death because it is a testamentary transfer that does not comply with the formalities needed to create a will"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The MIssissippi Supreme Court held that a lease provision cannot transfer the landlord&#8217;s power to receive rents to his daughter after his death because that effectuates a testamentary transfer that must comply with the statute of wills to be valid, including all formalities such as two witnesses.\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/courts.ms.gov\/Images\/Opinions\/CO120757.pdf\" class=\"mtli_attachment mtli_pdf\" target=\"_blank\">Estate of Greer v. Ball,<\/a>\u00a0218 So. 3d 1136 (Miss. 2017).<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"taxonomy-category wp-block-post-terms\"><a href=\"https:\/\/faculty.law.harvard.edu\/joseph-singer\/category\/leaseholds\/\" rel=\"tag\">Leaseholds<\/a><span class=\"wp-block-post-terms__separator\">, <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/faculty.law.harvard.edu\/joseph-singer\/category\/wills-and-inheritance\/\" rel=\"tag\">Wills and Inheritance<\/a><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The MIssissippi Supreme Court held that a lease provision cannot transfer the landlord&#8217;s power to receive rents to his daughter after his death because that effectuates a testamentary transfer that must comply with the statute of wills to be valid, including all formalities such as two witnesses.\u00a0Estate of Greer v. Ball,\u00a0218 So. 3d 1136 (Miss. 2017).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[33,38],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-390","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-leaseholds","category-wills-and-inheritance"],"featured_image_src":null,"featured_image_src_square":null,"author_info":{"display_name":"jsinger","author_link":"https:\/\/faculty.law.harvard.edu\/joseph-singer\/author\/jsinger\/"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/faculty.law.harvard.edu\/joseph-singer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/390","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/faculty.law.harvard.edu\/joseph-singer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/faculty.law.harvard.edu\/joseph-singer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faculty.law.harvard.edu\/joseph-singer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faculty.law.harvard.edu\/joseph-singer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=390"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/faculty.law.harvard.edu\/joseph-singer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/390\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/faculty.law.harvard.edu\/joseph-singer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=390"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faculty.law.harvard.edu\/joseph-singer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=390"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faculty.law.harvard.edu\/joseph-singer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=390"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}