In
trust law
A trust is a legal relationship in which the holder of a right gives it to another person or entity who must keep and use it solely for another's benefit. In the Anglo-American common law, the party who entrusts the right is known as the " sett ...
the term "doctrine of merger" refers to the fusing of legal and equitable title in the event the same person becomes both the sole trustee and the sole beneficiary of a trust. In such a case, the trust is sometimes deemed to have terminated (with the result that the beneficiary owns the trust property outright).
[See R. Wellman, L. Waggoner & O. Browder, ''Palmer's Cases and Materials on Trusts and Succession'' 489 (4th ed. 1983).]
See also
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Merger doctrine (civil procedure) The merger doctrine in civil procedure stands for the proposition that when litigants agree to a settlement, and then seek to have their settlement incorporated into a court order, the court order actually extinguishes the settlement and replaces i ...
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Merger doctrine (family law)
Historically, the merger doctrine (a.k.a. "doctrine of merger") was the notion that marriage caused a woman's legal
Law is a set of rules that are created and are law enforcement, enforceable by social or governmental institutions to regu ...
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Merger doctrine (property law)
Merger at conveyance
In the law of real property, the merger doctrine stands for the proposition that the contract for the conveyance of property merges into the deed of conveyance; therefore, any guarantees made in the contract that are not ref ...
References
Legal doctrines and principles
Wills and trusts
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