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Equitable estates and interests

transfer or vest the legal estate or ownership in the transferee, by mortgage or charge, and whenever a trust arises, either express, constructive, implied or by operation of law. In theory the legal owner alone was entitled,

Fiduciary

Fiduciary [fr. fiduciarius, Lat.], one who holds anything in trust. See TRUST. One who owes to another the duties of good faith, trust confidence, and candor, Black's Law

Money land

to the same persons successively in the same manner and for and on the same estates, interests and trusts as the land wherefrom the money arises would, if not disposed of, have been held and have gone

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Mortmain

1891 (54 & 55 Vict. c. 73), in the manner pointed out under the title CHARITABLE USES AND TRUSTS. in regard to assurances of land or personalty or enactments declaring a charitable use executed after 1925, alterations

Official trustees of charitable funds

Official trustees of charitable funds, officers of the Charity Commissioners appointed to hold stocks and securities belonging to charities: see

Registration of title of land

leasehold estate. A purchaser for value of registered land with any title but possessory is not affected by trusts, express, implied, or constructive (s. 74). A possessory title is affected by trusts arising prior to the first

Parties

such binds not only the parties named in the suit-title but all those who are interested in the trust, R. Venugopala Naidu v. Venkatarayulu Naidu Charities, AIR 1990 SC 444 (447): 1989 Supp (2) SCC 356. (Code

Fidei-commissum

on a legatee. It appears that there were no legal means of enforcing the due discharge of the trust called fidei-commissum till the time of Augustus, who gave the consuls jurisdiction in the fidei-commissa. Fidei-commissa seem to

Husband and wife

the Statute of Uses, by granting an estate to another person for her use; (2) by creating a trust in her favour; (3) by the custom of particular places; (4) by surrendering copyholds to her use; and

Infant

apprenticeship [see Green v. Thompson, (1899) 2 QB 1], executed contracts of marriage, representative acts as executor or trustee, contracts for necessaries. In an action brought for the price of goods, if the defendant pleads infancy, the

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