Wills Executed under Mistake of Fact

Ignorance and Mistake of Criminal Law, Noncriminal Law, and Fact

After clarifying the distinction between mistakes of fact and mistakes of law, this article explores in detail an important distinction within the category of mistake of law, between mistake about the criminal law itself and mistake about noncriminal law norms that the criminal law makes relevant—for example, about the civil law of property (in a theft prosecution) or of divorce (in a bigamy pr...

How to Mistake a Trivial Fact About Probability For a Substantive Fact About Justified Belief

It is sometimes thought that the lottery paradox and the paradox of the preface demand a uniform solution (Hunter (1996) and Foley (1992), for example). Let us see why that appears to be the case. I am justified in believing that my lottery ticket—call it t1—will not win, on statistical grounds. Those grounds apply equally to any other ticket, so I am justified in believing of any other ticket ...

Dispensing with Wills' Act Formalities for Substantively Valid Wills

Living wills and religious communities.

The House That Wills' Built

A discussion of the contribution made by David Wills to the residential care of young people prompted by his book on the Reynolds House experiment.