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  2. Rule against perpetuities - Wikipedia

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    The rule against perpetuities serves a number of purposes. First, English courts have long recognized that allowing owners to attach long-lasting contingencies to their property harms the ability of future generations to freely buy and sell the property, since few people would be willing to buy property that had unresolved issues regarding its ownership hanging over it.

  3. Borland's Trustee v Steel Bros & Co Ltd - Wikipedia

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    But in fact a share is an interest and consists of 'a series of mutual covenants entered into by all the shareholders inter se in accordance with section 16 of the Companies Act 1862.' [1] The argument about perpetuity has no application because the rule against perpetuities does not apply to personal contracts. [2]

  4. Charitable trusts in English law - Wikipedia

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    The standard rule for dividing the funds is based on the equitable rule that "equity is equality"; money should be divided equally. There are exceptions where it is not practicable, as in Re Coxon, [58] where of a £200,000 gift to the City of London for charitable purposes, a £100 dinner and other small gifts to the board of trustees was ...

  5. Perpetuities and Accumulations Act 2009 - Wikipedia

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    The Perpetuities and Accumulations Act 2009 (c. 18) is an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom that reforms the rule against perpetuities. The Act resulted from a Law Commission report published in 1998. [3] It abolishes the rule against perpetuities in most non-trust contexts, such as easements. [3]

  6. Rule in Shelley's Case - Wikipedia

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    The Rule in Shelley's Case is a rule of law that may apply to certain future interests in real property and trusts created in common law jurisdictions. [ 1 ] : 181 It was applied as early as 1366 in The Provost of Beverly's Case [ 1 ] : 182 [ 2 ] but in its present form is derived from Shelley's Case (1581), [ 3 ] in which counsel stated the ...

  7. Purpose trusts in English law - Wikipedia

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    In addition, the courts have recognised exceptions to the rules against purpose trusts. The erection and maintenance of tombs and monuments is a valid trust, as in Musset v Bingle; [17] this will not be held valid if the gift violates the perpetuity rule, or if the scale of the monument is "capricious and wasteful". [18]

  8. Perpetuities and Accumulations Act 1964 - Wikipedia

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    The reforms introduced a statutory limitation on how long income could be accumulated before it must be distributed. In 2009, many of the Act's principles were further reformed by the Perpetuities and Accumulations Act 2009, which introduced a single, simplified perpetuity period of 125 years, replacing the earlier rules. [1]

  9. Future interest - Wikipedia

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    Executory interests are subject to the rule against perpetuities, which disqualifies any interest that can vest more than twenty-one years after the death of every party who was living at the time the interest was created. However, if all of the potential vesting beneficiaries are named, the rule will never be violated.