A draft will prepared on the testator's instructions, which the testator has received, read, and expressed a settled intention to execute, may be admitted to probate as an informal will under s 32 of the Wills Act 1970 (WA) even though the testator intended to formally execute the document before it would operate. The 'without more' language from Oreski v IKAC does not require that the testator intended the document to operate without formal execution; it requires only that the document embodies the testator's concluded testamentary intentions.
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