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Public trustee

of deceased persons if under one thousand pounds; act as custodian trustee [see that title, and Re Cherry's Trusts, (1914) 1 Ch 83]; act as an ordinary trustee; be appointed to be a judicial trustee (see that

Charitable purpose

(1891) AC 531 (583), where four principal divisions were said to be comprised-trusts for the relief of poverty; trusts for the advancement of education; trusts for the advancement of religion; and trusts for other purposes beneficial to … public utility, but does not include a purpose which relates exclusively to religious teaching or worship. [Charitable Endow-ments Act, 1890 (6 of 1890), s. 2] Means relief of the poor, education, medical relief and the advancement of

Charities, or Public Trusts

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Equitable estates and interests

its application and its effects. At the same time the Statute, being based on the elastic nature of trusts, introduced a more flexible disposition of legal interests in land. Under the (English) Statute of Frauds (29 Car. … did not apply to trusts arising by construction, implication, or operation by law, and see now (English) L.P. Act, ss. 52 to 55. Among other statutes which assimilated some, if not all, the incidents of beneficial ownership

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) … of Paine, A.J., (1916) 115 LT 935] In regard to deaths after 1925, by the Administration of Estates Act, 1925, s. 46:- (1) The residuary (real and personal) estate of an intestate shall be distributed in the

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

Undivided shares in land

if there are more than four, the first four named in the conveyance joint tenants upon the statutory trusts (q.v.) A trust for sale does not arise in the case of joint tenants for life who are … by husband and wife as tenants by entireties (see those titles), but now by the Law of Property Act, 1925, s. 1 (6), a legal estate is not capable of subsisting or of being created in an

Limitation of actions and prosecutions

the Act of 1874] As a rule a title by possession for the statutory period of land against trustees will be good against all persons claiming as cestui que trustent under their trust (see Williams v. Papworth,

Trust corporation

the Rules or any company authorized by the Lord Chancellor in relation to any charitable, ecclesiastical or public trusts. By s. 3 of the (English) L.P. (Amendment) Act, 1926, 'Trust Corporation' includes the Treasury Solicitor, Official Solicitor

Official trustees of charitable funds

funds, officers of the Charity Commissioners appointed to hold stocks and securities belonging to charities: see (English) Charitable Trusts Act, 1853, s. 51; (English) Charitable Trusts Amendment Act, 1855, s. 18; (English) Charitable Trusts Act, 1887, s. 4. … see (English) Charitable Trusts Act, 1853, s. 51; (English) Charitable Trusts Amendment Act, 1855, s. 18; (English) Charitable Trusts Act, 1887, s. 4.

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