{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2012-650/article-26",
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  "legislation": "eur/2012/650",
  "legislation_title": "Regulation (EU) No 650/2012 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 4 July 2012 on jurisdiction, applicable law, recognition and enforcement of decisions and acceptance and enforcement of authentic instruments in matters of succession and on the creation of a European Certificate of Succession",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2012-650",
  "path": "article/26",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "26",
  "heading": "Substantive validity of dispositions of property upon death",
  "text": "1. For the purposes of Articles 24 and 25 the following elements shall pertain to substantive validity:\n(a) the capacity of the person making the disposition of property upon death to make such a disposition;\n(b) the particular causes which bar the person making the disposition from disposing in favour of certain persons or which bar a person from receiving succession property from the person making the disposition;\n(c) the admissibility of representation for the purposes of making a disposition of property upon death;\n(d) the interpretation of the disposition;\n(e) fraud, duress, mistake and any other questions relating to the consent or intention of the person making the disposition.\n2. Where a person has the capacity to make a disposition of property upon death under the law applicable pursuant to Article 24 or Article 25, a subsequent change of the law applicable shall not affect his capacity to modify or revoke such a disposition.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/eur/2012/650/article/26",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-11-01T14:49:18.254005+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}