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Equity, volunteers and unconstituted trusts: Certainty of subject matter
Mark Pawlowski considers whether a volunteer can enforce a promise to settle property Fletcher highlights the difficulty in any particular case in determining whether or not there is an intention to create a trust of the promise. In most cases the requisite intention will be absent and, therefore, will prove fatal to the existence of …
Cases Referenced
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- Cannon v Hartley [1949] Ch 213
- Davenport v Bishopp (1843) 2 Y & CCC 451
- Fletcher v Fletcher (1844) 4 Hare 67
- Milroy v Lord [1862] EWHC Ch J78
- Paul v Paul [1882] 20 Ch D 742
- Pullan v Koe [1913] 1 Ch 9
- Re Bowden [1936] Ch 71
- Re Cavendish-Browne’s Settlement Trusts (1847) 16 M & W 862
- Re Cook's Settlement Trusts [1965] Ch 902
- Re Ellenborough [1903] 1 Ch 697
- Re Kay’s Settlement [1939] 1 Ch 329
- Re Plumptre’s Marriage Settlement [1910] 1 Ch 609
- Re Pryce [1917] 1 Ch 234
- Re Ralli’s Will Trusts [1964] Ch 288
- Re Schebsman [1944] Ch 83
- Strong v Bird (1874) LR 18 Eq 315