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Saunders v Vautier [1841] EWHC J82, (1841) 4 Beav 115 is a leading English trusts law case. It laid down the rule of equity which provides that, if all of the beneficiaries in the trust are of adult age and under no disability, the beneficiaries may require the trustee to transfer the legal estate to them and thereby terminate the trust.
Accumulation and maintenance trust; Acts of independent significance; Ademption; Ademption by satisfaction; Administration (probate law) Administrator of an estate; Affiliation (family law) Ancillary administration; Anti-alienation clause; Asbestos bankruptcy trusts; Asbestos trust; Asset-protection trust; Attestation clause; Australian trust law
While the Statute of Uses ended the practice of creating uses as a means of creating valid wills of land, the Statute was not held to execute all Uses. This would serve as the birthplace of the trust. Some Uses had active duties the feoffees had to fulfill, such as managing an estate or collecting and distributing income, or paying debts. [26]
Governing doctrines. Pour-over will; Cy-près doctrine; Hague Convention (conflict law) Application in civil law; Dishonest assistance; Estate administration
2) for the province of York (other than the City of York) and the Wills Act 1703 (2 & 3 Ann. c. 5), for the City of York; for Wales by the Wills Act 1695 (7 & 8 Will. 3. c. c. 38) with the final assimilation not taking place until 1 June 1725 when the City of London Elections Act 1724 ( 11 Geo. 1 .
The Statute of Wills or Wills Act 1540 (32 Hen. 8.c. 1) was an Act of the Parliament of England.It made it possible, for the first time in post-Conquest English history, for landholders to determine who would inherit their land upon their death by permitting devise by will.
The cy-pres doctrine in English law is an element of trusts law that deals with charitable trusts.The doctrine states that when such a trust has failed because its purposes are either impossible or cannot be fulfilled, the High Court of Justice or the Charity Commission can issue an order redirecting the trust's funds to the nearest possible purpose.
The Wills Act 1837 (7 Will. 4 & 1 Vict. c. 26) is an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom that confirms the power of every adult to dispose of their real and personal property, whether they are the outright owner or a beneficiary under a trust, by will on their death (s.3).