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Re Barlow’s Will Trusts
''Re Barlow's Will Trusts'' 9791 WLR 278 is an English trusts law case, concerning certainty of the words "family" and "friends" in a will. Facts Miss Helen Alice Dorothy Barlow, the testatrix had a large collection of pictures. She specifically bequeathed some. For the remainder, she declared them to be held by her executor on trust to sell them, but that her ‘family and friends’ could buy them first at 1970 valuations or at the probate value, whichever was lower. The proceeds would go to the residuary estate. The executors asked the court whether the direction about family and friends was void, given its uncertainty, and if it was valid, who the family and friends were. Judgment Browne-Wilkinson J held that the trust was valid, because both concepts of friends and family could be given a workable meaning. Although ‘friend’ could have a wide variety of meaning, the minimum requirements were that (a) the relationship had to be long standing (b) be a social and not a bus ...
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English Trusts Law
English trust law concerns the protection of assets, usually when they are held by one party for another's benefit. Trust law, Trusts were a creation of the English law of English property law, property and English contract law, obligations, and share a subsequent history with countries across the Commonwealth of Nations, Commonwealth and the United States. Trusts developed when claimants in property disputes were dissatisfied with the common law courts and petitioned the King for a just and equitable result. On the King's behalf, the Lord Chancellor developed a parallel justice system in the Court of Chancery, commonly referred as Equity (law), equity. Historically, trusts have mostly been used where people have left money in a Will (law), will, or created family settlements, Charities in English law, charities, or some types of business venture. After the Judicature Act 1873, England's courts of equity and common law were merged, and equitable principles took precedence. Today ...
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In Re Gulbenkian's Settlements
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In Re Baden's Deed Trusts
is an English trusts law case, concerning the circumstances under which a trust will be held to be uncertain. It followed on from ''McPhail v Doulton'', where the House of Lords affirmed that upholding the settlor's intentions was of paramount importance. It dealt with the same facts as ''McPhail v Doulton,'' since the Lords had remanded the case to the Court of Appeal to be decided using the legal principles set out in ''McPhail''. Facts Mr Bertram Baden settled a trust for the employees, relatives and dependants of his company, Matthew Hall & Co Ltd. It said the net income of the trust fund should be applied by the trustees ‘in their absolute discretion’ and as they thought fit for the employees, relatives and dependants in grants. The House of Lords in ''McPhail v Doulton'' held that the trust would in principle be valid if it could be said with certainty that a hypothetical claimant "is or is not" within the class of beneficiaries. The case returned to the lower courts to ...
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In Re Allen
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Brown V Gould
Brown is a color. It can be considered a composite color, but it is mainly a darker shade of orange. In the CMYK color model used in printing and painting, brown is usually made by combining the colors orange and black. In the RGB color model used to project colors onto television screens and computer monitors, brown combines red and green. The color brown is seen widely in nature, wood, soil, human hair color, eye color and skin pigmentation. Brown is the color of dark wood or rich soil. In the RYB color model, brown is made by mixing the three primary colors, red, yellow, and blue. According to public opinion surveys in Europe and the United States, brown is the least favorite color of the public; it is often associated with fecal matter, plainness, the rustic, although it does also have positive associations, including baking, warmth, wildlife, the autumn and music. Etymology The term is from Old English , in origin for any dusky or dark shade of color. The first recorde ...
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