Property Law - Resulting Trusts Flashcards
What is the overall heading of resulting and constructive trusts?
Trusts arising by operation of law
what statute was modernised in the LPA?
Statute of Frauds 1677
Statute of Frauds 1677 preceded what Act?
LPA 1925
LPA 1925 s.53(1)(b)
Trust of land EVIDENCED in signed writing
What happens if a trust of land is not evidenced in signed writing?
Trust is valid but unenforceable
LPA 1925 s.53(1)(c)
Disposition of any subsisting equitable interest need be evidenced in writing
LPA 1925 s.53(2)
No formalities needed for CT/RT
No formalities needed for CT/RT
LPA 1925 s.53(2)
Disposition of any subsisting equitable interest need be evidenced in writing
LPA 1925 s.53(1)(c)
Trust of land evidenced by signed writing
LPA 1925 s.53(1)(b)
What is the outcome of finding an RT/CT?
Valuable property protection - right against 3rd, protection from D’s insolvency and asserting equitable interest in new property
Westdeutsche v Islington LBC on conscience
Lord B-W - conscience need be affected with knowledge of circumstances giving rise to a trust in C’s favour before a trust arises
What judge in that case said that conscience of D needs to be affected with knowledge of the circumstances giving rise to a trust before RT/CT?
Lord B-W Westdeutsche v Islington LBC
Independent Trustee Services v GP Noble Trustees on conscience
Lloyd LJ stated CT as soon as D acquired property, but no personal liability until knowledge
What judge in what case separated the proprietary and personal aspects of a CT/RT?
Lloyd LJ in Independent Trustee Services v GP Noble Trustees
Independent Trustee Services v GP Noble Trustees, per Lloyd LJ
Separated personal and proprietary aspects of CT/RT
Why do H&M believe the conflict between Lloyd J in ITS and Lord B-W in Westdeutsche is overstated?
Even under Lord B-W, B has a ‘mere equity’, sharing all the same proprietary attributes of an equitable trust
Who argues the conflict between Lloyd J in ITS and Lord B-W in Westdeutsche is overstated?
H&M
What is the content of B’s trusteeship under an RT?
Bare trust - no duty to invest, just hold the property to account
From what Latin term does ‘RT’ come?
resalire
Resalire
Jumping back
What did Birks distinguish between?
Trusts resulting in pattern and resulting in origin
What is a trust resulting in pattern?
Whenever money returns to the original transferor
What is a trust resulting in origin?
Looking at the underlying reasoning and rationale of the trust, rather than just the mere fact of money returning to the original transferor
Under Birks’ distinction between trusts resulting in pattern and origin, which is an RT?
Resulting in origin
Two types of RTs
Automatic gifts and failing trusts
What is another name for an automatic gift RT
Presumed RT
Two subcategories of Automatic gifts
Voluntary transfer and purchase in another’s name
Give one case on purchase in another’s name
Dyer v Dyer; Huntingford v Hobbs; Prest v Petrodel Resources
Dyer v Dyer general
No evidence whatsoever
Dyer v Dyer judgment
Presumption of RT arises without evidence to the contrary
Basic starting point for presumptions in apparent gifts
Dyer v Dyer
No evidence whatsoever
Dyer v Dyer
Huntingford v Hobbs general
Downpayment and mortgage
Downpayment and mortgage
Huntingford v Hobbs
Huntingford v Hobbs judgment
Proportion of RT is the proportions at time of purchase
Prest v Petrodel Resources general
Ancillary relief, flats
Ancillary relief, flats
Prest v Petrodel Resources
Prest v Petrodel Resources judgment on purchase in another’s name
Irrelevant if all of part of the money is provided by D
Why does Mee argue voluntary transfer apparent gift category should be removed?
Absence of evidence to show it wasn’t a gift, so it should be a gift
Re Vinogradoff general
Grandmother, granddaughter
Prest v Petrodel Resources judgment on voluntary transfer
Nothing to rebut equitable presumption that company not intended to acquire beneficial interest
Re Vinogradoff judgment
Personalty - nothing to rebut presumption
Grandmother, granddaughter
Re Vinogradoff
Hodgson v Marks general
Lodger, elderly widow, oral agreement
Lodger, elderly widow, oral agreement
Hodgson v Marks
Hodgson v Marks judgment
RT as soon as land transferred to lodger, and purchase stepped into lodger’s shoes upon purchase
What case suggested that oral agreements not protected as express trusts under LPA amount to negative intention for RT?
Hodgson v Marks
Lord B-W in Westdeutsche on presumptions
They can be ‘easily rebutted’
Two exceptions to presumption of apparent gift
Family home context and voluntary conveyance of land
LPA 1925 s.60(3)
RT not implied for voluntary conveyances of land because of lack of express intention
RT not implied for voluntary conveyances of land because of lack of express intention
LPA 1925 s.60(3)
Lohia v Lohia
LPA abolished presumption of RT for voluntary land conveyances
What case made it clear that LPA abolished presumption of RT for voluntary land conveyances?
Lohia v Lohia
Why can the judgment in Lohia be doubted?
First instance decision
Prest v Petrodel Resources doubting Lohia
SC did not consider s.60(3) at all
What case doubts the abolition of presumption of gift in the case of voluntary conveyances of land?
Prest v Petrodel Resources
What is a positive of LPA s.60(3)?
Formalities increase the likelihood that transferor intended to make the conveyance, so presumption not needed
Midland Bank v Cooke general
Less than 7% contribution
Less than 7% contribution
Midland Bank v Cooke
Midland Bank v Cooke judgment
Inference of common intention meant married coupled intended equal beneficial shares, not presumption of gift
Stack v Dowden, per Hale
RTs should be avoided in shared homes
Stack v Dowden per Neuberger
RTs shouldn’t be completely abandoned in domestic contexts, but same outcome
Two relevant judges in Stack v Dowden
Neuberger and Hale
What judge in Stack said RTs should be avoided in shared homes?
Hale
What judge said RTs shouldn’t be completely abandoned in domestic context?
Neuberger
Abbott v Abbott per Hale
‘Now clear that the CT is generally the more appropriate tool’
What judge in what case stated it is ‘now clear that the CT is generally the more appropriate tool’?
Hale in Abbott v Abbott
Jones v Kernott general
Joint occupation, mortgage
Jones v Kernott
Stack prevents RT when home in joint names for joint occupation by a couple
What case suggested Stack prevents RT when home in joint names for joint occupation by a couple?
Jones v Kernott
What case allowed that the presumption of an RT may still be relevant in other domestic cases?
Jones v Kernott
What case gave four conditions for JT in common law and equity?
Jones v Kernott
Four conditions for JT in common law and equity?
Joint names, occupation, couple and mortgage under both names
Laskar v Laskar general
Mother daughter invesmtnet
Laskar v Laskar judgment
Neuberger rejected CT only way in family home, because of investment purpose
Why did Neuberger reject CT in Laskar v Laskar?
Investment purpose
Gallarotti v Sebastienelli general
Friends, B sole name, larger contributions not made
Friends, B sole name, larger contributions not made
Gallarotti v Sebastienelli
Gallarotti v Sebastienelli judgment
CT gave 25% share, almost exact same as contributions
What two cases show that CT/RT distinction makes little difference to the outcome?
Gallarotti v Sebastienelli; stack v Dowden
What does a presumption of RT require?
Absence of evidence and proof of a transfer
Mackowik v Kansas City said what of presumptions?
They are ‘bats of the law, flitting in the twilight but disappearing in the sunshine of actual facts’
What case said presumptions are ‘bats of the law, flitting in the twilight but disappearing in the sunshine of actual facts’?
Mackowik v Kansas City
Calverly v Green general
1/3 purchase, 2/3 joint mortgage
1/3 purchase, 2/3 joint mortgage
Calverly v Green
Calverly v Green
RT at time of purchase was 2/3 to M and 1/3 to W, but lien to M for what W had promised to pay
What evens out the fact that RTs are determined at the time of purchase?
The fact that A an get a lien for whatever B did not pay
What is a presumption of advancement?
Court assumes likely default is a gift to B
Who sais presumptions of advancement are not true presumptions?
Mee
Who said presumptions of advancement are true presumptions?
Chambers
Shephard v Cartwright
Loco parentis
Loco parentis
Shephard v Cartwright
Tinker v Tinker
Husband/fiancee for presumption of advancement
Husband/fiancee for presumption of advancement
Tinker v Tinker
Stack v Dowden on presumptions of advancement
Cohabitation insufficient for presumption of advancement
Cohabitation insufficient for presumption of advancement
Stack v Dowden
Abrahams v Trustee of Property of Abrahams general
Wife insufficient for presumption of advancemnt
Wife insufficient for presumption of advancemnt
Abrahams v Trustee of Property of Abrahams
Pecore v Pecore general
Mother and children in Canada allow presumption of advancement
Mother and children in Canada allow presumption of advancement
Pecore v Pecore
What case shows the question of presumption of advancement between mother and children not yet settled?
Garrett v Wilkinson
Garrett v Wilkinson general
Mother and child, England, widow
Mother and child, England, widow
Garrett v Wilkinson on presumptions of advancement
What Act attempted to abolish presumption of advancement?
Equality Act 2010 s.199
Why do H&M argue not a big deal that EA2010 not in force yet?
Court can abolish presumption between spouses and gender bias probably contravenes Article 5 7th Protocol ECHR anyway
Who highlight presumption of advancement probably contravenes Article 5 7th Protocol ECHR anyway?
H&M
What part of the ECHR do H&M suggest presumption of advancement contravenes?
Article 5 7th Protocol - equality of spousal rights
CPS v Malik general’
Very slight intention’
CPS v Malik judgment
Only need very slight intention to establish intention of advancement anyway
what case highlighted how the presumption of advancement is not important as only need very slight intention to establish intention of advancement anyway?
CPS v Malik
When are presumptions of RT and advancement most important?
When evidence on which A wants to rely to establish intent refers to an achieved improper purpose
Tinsley v Milligan general
Lesbian, social security benefits
Lesbian, social security benefits
Tinsley v Milligan
Tinsley v Milligan judgment
If you must rely on illegal purpose to establish presumption, illegality defence blocks the claim
What case gave the reliance approach to illegality defence?
Tinsley v Milligan
What did Lord B-W highlight in Tinsley v Milligan?
Fusion of law and equity mean that, if C tries to enforce a property right under illegal transaction, it is irrelevant if the right is legal or equitable
When was the illegal purpose relevant in Tinsley?
When D was trying to rebut the presumption of an RT
What did the Law Commission suggest after Tinsley?
More flexible approach needed to illegality defence
What was the Law Com’s ‘more flexible approach’ to illegality?
Statutory scheme with discretion
Les Laboratoires Servier v Apotex general
Interlocutory injunction, manufacturing illegal
Interlocutory injunction, manufacturing illegal
Les Laboratoires Servier v Apotex
Les Laboratoires Servier v Apotex per Lord Sumption
Approved Tinsley, rejecting public conscience test from LC
Why did Sumption reject public conscience test of LC in Les Laboratoires Servier v Apotex?
Directly inconsistent with Tinsley
What is a criticism of the approach in Tinsley?
Illegality has nothing to do with the relationship between C and D
Tribe v Tribe general
Shares to child, worried about claims never arose
Shares to child, worried about claims never arose
Tribe v Tribe
Tribe v Tribe judgment
Only prevented from relying on evidence of illegal purpose if achieved
What three conditions were there for relying on non-achieved illegal purpose?
No need for genuine repentance, need to voluntarily refrain from going through with transaction and not enough that C forced to withdraw from discovery
What case gave three conditions for relying on non-achieved illegal purpose?
Tribe v Tribe
Bilta (UK) v Nazir (No.2) Toulson and Hodge
Toulson and Hodge adopted Tinsley CoA approach on public policy for flexibility
Bilta (UK) v Nazir (No.2) Sumption
Approved Tinsley
Bilta (UK) v Nazir (No.2) Neuberger
No determination on correct test for illegality defence
Why did Neuberger reject construction of the correct illegality defence test in Bilta (UK) v Nazir (No.2)?
Not determinative in the case, and little argument on the topic by council
Who approved Tinsley in Bilta (UK) v Nazir (No.2)?
Sumption?
Who adopted Tinsley CoA approach on public consciencee in Bilta (UK) v Nazir (No.2)?
Hodge and Toulson
Who rejected the construction of correct illegality defence test in Bilta (UK) v Nazir (No.2)?
Neuberger
What did Law Com criticise about the presumption of advancement in illegality?
Ability to recover depends on the presence of a sufficiently special relationship
What does a failing trust require?
Failed intent to create a trust, absence of intent to benefit T and absence of valid allocation of trust property to anyone else of charitable purpose
What is another name for failing trusts?
Automatic RTs
Automatic RT
Failing trust
Presumed RT
Apparent gift
What are the three possible outcomes from a failing trust?
Bona vacantia, to T or to S
Why does Swaddling argue no RT needed in failing trust cases?
Personal liability under unjust enrichment is sufficient
What do failing trusts creating RTs allow S to do?
Re-declare the trust if that is what she wanted
What are the three subcategories of failing trusts?
Express trust fails entirely or partially, trust objective achieved with surplus or dissolution of unincorporated association
Name at least two cases when an express trust failed entirely/partially
Vandervell v IRC; Re Shaw; Re Foord; Barclays Bank v Quistclose; Twinsectra v Yardley; Re Flower’s Settlement Trusts
Vandervell v IRC general
Professorship, shares to RCS, dividends and OTP
Professorship, shares to RCS, dividends and OTP
Vandervell v IRC
Vandervell v IRC judgment
Trust company cannot own shares for itself, so RT back to S
Re Shaw general
Research into 40-letter alphabet
Research into 40-letter alphabet
Re Shaw
Re Shaw judgment
Private purpose failed, but not for T so RT
Re Foord general
Sister absolutely, widow annuity
Sister absolutely, widow annuity
Re Foord
Barclays Bank v Quistclose general
Dividends to shareholders
Dividends to shareholders
Barclays Bank v Quistclose
Barclays Bank v Quistclose judgment
RT on failure of purpose trust, primary and secondary framework
What case and judge reinterpreted Barclas Bank v Quistclose?
Lord Millett in Twinsectra v Yardley
Twinsectra v Yardley general
Money for house
Twinsectra v Yardley judgment
Lord Millett reinterpreted Quistclose - immediate RT with power to apply money for purpose
Re Flower’s Settlement Trusts general
Doctrine of acceleration
Re Flower’s Settlement Trusts judgment
Doctrine of acceleration blocks RT
What case showed Doctrine of acceleration blocks RT?
Re Flower’s Settlement Trusts
What two cases show failure of a trust is a fact-specific question?
Re Abbott and Re Osoba
Re Abbott general
Deaf and mute women
Re Abbott judgment
Trust for them only whilst surviving, then RT
Re Osoba general
Widow, mother and daughter
Widow, mother and daughter
Re Osoba
Re Osoba judgment
For benefit of all as JTs, so whole interest disposed of by terms of initial transfer
Deaf and mute
Re Abbott
Two cases showing trust objectives achieved, with surplus
Davis v Richard & Wellington; Air Jamaica
Davis v Richard & Wellington general
Pension scheme, surplus from employer and employee contribution
Pension scheme, surplus from employer and employee contribution
Davis v Richard & Wellington
Davis v Richard & Wellington judgment
Employer contribution RT but employee bona vacantia
Why did employee contributions in Davis v Richard & Wellington go on bona vacant?
Unworkable RT and gave more than legislature intended when imposing statutory limits
Why was the RT considered unworkable if allowed RT to employer’s contributions in Davis v Richard & Wellington?
Different value of benefits to each employee
Air Jamaica general
Privatised company, pension fund, expressly no RT
Privatised company, pension fund, expressly no RT
Air Jamaica
Air jamaica judgment
RT because operation of law, so trust fund instrument irrelevant
What did Millett find unconvincing about Davis v Richard in Air Jamaica?
RT unworkable, because just pro rata distribution
What did Millett suggest about justifications for RT in Air Jamaica?
Retention theory wrong, because RT clearly did not respond to A’s positive intention
Name at least two cases on dissolution of unincorporated associations for failing trusts
Re West Sussex; Re Bucks; Hanchett-Stamford v AG
Re West Sussex general
Fund for widows and orphans, raffle
Fund for widows and orphans, raffle
Re West Sussex
Re West Sussex judgment
Donations and legacies on RT
Re Bucks general
Widows and orphans, no rules for winding up
Re Bucks judgment
Doubted Re West Sussex, paying proper attention to primacy of members’ contracts for beneficial interest
What case doubted Re West Sussex?
Re Bucks
Widows and orphans, no rules for winding up
Re Bucks
Hanchett-Stamford v AG general
Anti-vivisection defence league, wife
Hanchett-Stamford v AG judgment
Property vested absolutely in wife as last surviving member
What two things did Lewison J reject in Hanchett-Stamford v AG
Charitable purpose of association, and that property went on bona vacantia
What case suggested in obiter that if there is only one surviving member of a UA, property goes on bona vacantia?
Re Bucks
Supporter of negative intention theory
Chambers
Supporter of liberalism and autonomy justification of RTs
Gardener
Who called apparent gifts and failing trusts automatic/presumed RTs?
Megarry VC in Vandervell v iRC
Megarry VC in Vandervell v iRC
Called apparent gifts presumed RTs and failing trusts automatic RTs
Supporter of unjust enrichment justification/alternative for RTs
Chambers
Supporter of positive intention theory for apparent gifts
Mee
Supporter for apparent gifts RTs responding to A’s declaration of trust
Swadling
Who said failing trusts ‘defy legal analysis’?
Swadling
What judge in what case highlighted how the retention theory is incorrect because there is no split of legal and equitable title prior to a trust?
Lord Browne-Wilkinson in Westdeutsche Bank v Islington
Why did Megarry VC in Vandervell call FTs automatic?
RT happens upon the trust failing, automatically
Why did Megarry VC in Vandervell call AGs presumed?
Equity is cynical that A intended a gift without intention
What judge in what case said that all RTs respond to A’s common intent, and RT not imposed against B’s intention
Lord Browne-Wilkinson in Westdeutsche Bank v Islington
Why was Lord Browne-Wilkinson’s view on common intention RTs in Westdeutsche Bank v Islington problematic?
He required common intent for the trust, but focus on B’s intent when asking if against his intent to impose the trust
What case casts doubt on the common intention theory of RTs and why?
Re Vinogradoff - minor can’t form an intent
What case first recognised UE in England?
Lipkin Gorman v Karpnale
Lipkin Gorman v Karpnale
First recognised UE in England
In what decade was UE first recognised in England
1990
What are the two issues with UE justification of RT?
Not all UE claims result in proprietary remedies, but personal ones, and ‘unjust factor’ can’t be present if basis of the theory is a lack of evidence
What factor needs to be present for UE claim?
‘Unjust’
Why can there be no unjust factor in RT cases?
Lack of evidence bases the RT presumptions, so no ‘unjust factor’
Who argues AGs shouldn’t be RTs at all, as they are simply a state of affairs?
Mee
Re Vinogradoff on the positive intention theory by Mee
No intention at all of what Grandmother wanted, so no positive intention to declare for herself
What academic essentially aligns RTs with express trusts?
Swadling
What are the two problems with Swadling’s declaratory analysis of AGs?
RTs arise for lack of proper trust declaration, and thus are NOT express trusts, and s.53(2) LPA explicitly excluded RT and CTs from formalities
What, textually, is hard to explain in LPA is RTs arise on presumption of A’s intent to declare a trust for himself?
S.53(2) LPA exclusion of RTs and CTs from formalities
What is a positive of Chambers’ UE analysis of RTs?
Identifies common underlying basis of both AG and FT - A’s negative intention
In what case was the UE justification rejected?
Westdeutsche v Islington LBC
Who said Chambers’ UE theory ‘proves too much’?
H&M
Why did H&M think Chambers’ UE theory ‘proves too much’?
Causes RTs to arise WHENEVR A transfers property to B with vitiated intention
What is the immediate issue with Lord B-W’s common intention justification for FTs in Westdeutsche?
RT arises even if A did not intend to get the beneficial interest back
What academic highlighted to offer support for common intention analysis of FT, how RT is probably what an ‘abstract class’ of S’s would likely prefer?
Mee
Mee, offering support for common intention analysis of FT
RT is probably what an ‘abstract class’ of S’s would likely prefer
What academic explains FTs through negative intention?
Mee
How does Mee explain FTs through negative intention?
S intends to create a trust, but no intent to benefit B or anyone else
Two criticisms of Mee’s negative intention justification for FTs
Intention unnecessary if RT arises upon UA dissolution, and S may intend to benefit SOMEONE, but fails on this point/there is surplus
What case suggested FTs respond to A’s positive intention to retain the beneficial interest?
Re Foord
Re Foord general
Sister, wife, annuity
Sister, wife, annuity
Re Foord
What showed S did not intend to retain the beneficial interest in Re Foord?
‘Absolutely’ by lay person, informal address and non-income producing property as part of gift
Who argued Chambers, in his UE analysis, blurs the distinction between FT and UE?
Mee
How does Mee believe Chambers blurs the distinction between FT and UE?
FT is more than UE - absence to benefit B when A intended B to take as T can only mean A did intend to create a trust, just not to benefit B
What case casts doubt on Mee’s positive intention theory of AGs and how?
Vandervell v IRC - A may not want to benefit B, but he also clearly didn’t mean to declare a trust for himself