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Widow

(real and personal) estate of an intestate shall be distributed in the manner or be held on the trusts mentioned in this s., namely:- (i) If the intestate leaves a husband or wife (with or without issue)

Title to lands, Documents of

retains any part of the land to which the documents relate, or (b) the document consists of a trust instrument or other instrument creating a trust which is still subsisting or in instrument relating to the appointment

Not involving the carrying on of any activity of profit

the fourth category of charitable purpose, it would be necessary to show that (1) the purpose of the trust is advancement of any other object of general public utility, and (2) the above purpose does not involve

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Title

made with the concurrence of an equitable beneficiary if title can be made free from equities under a trust for sale or under the Law of Property Act, 1925, or any other statute is void (L.P. Act,

Tail

interest which may be created after 1925 in respect of personalty as well as realty by way of trust and which (if not barred or disposed of by will after 1925) will devolve inequity on the person

Statutory trusts

Statutory trusts. for the purposes of the (English) Law of Property Act, 1925, land held upon 'statutory trusts' shall be

Perpetuity

exists. If proof of the extinction of the lives mentioned is impracticable before the property can vest, the trust may be avoided, Re Villar, (1929) 1 Ch 243. The rule requires a limitation, whether of an absolute

Notice

Property Act, 1925, sub tit. CONSTRUCTIVE NOTICE, and see LAW OF PROPERTY ACT; (Curtain). The doctrine of constructive trusts has also been narrowed down by the (English) Conveyancing Act, 1911, s.13, reproduced by the (English) Law of

Charitable uses and trusts

Charitable uses and trusts. 9 Geo. 2, c. 26, commonly called 'The Mortmain Act,' 1735, after reciting that ifts or alienations of

Kenyon-Slaney Clause

local education authority shall, as regards its character, be in accordance with the provisions (if any) of the trust deed relating thereto, and shall be under the control of the managers: Provided that nothing in this sub-s.

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