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Resulting trust, a trust created by operation of law. Resulting trusts are of two kinds: (1) Where an owner of property makes a disposition of the legal estate and there is nothing to show that he meant to deal with the equitable interest, but by s. 60 of the Law of Property Act, provides that in a voluntary conveyance executed after 1925, a resulting trust for the grantor will not be implied merely because the property is not expressed to be conveyed for the benefit of the grantee; (2) where a purchaser of property takes the conveyance not in his own name but in that of some one else. In either of these cases the law creates a 'resulting trust'-in the former case, in favour of the owner of the legal estate; in the latter, in favour of the purchaser, i.e., the man who paid the purchase money. See Lewin on Trusts.