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Knight v Knight (1840) 49 ER 58 is an English trusts law case, embodying a simple statement of the "three certainties" principle. This has the effect of determining whether assets can be disposed of in wills , or whether the wording of the will is too vague to allow beneficiaries to collect what appears on the face of the will to be theirs.
The rule came out of the case of Knight v Knight. [1] The testator, after giving away his personal and real property, added to the end of his will that "I trust to the justice of my successors, in continuing the estates in the male succession, according to the will of the founder of the family".
Pages in category "1840 in case law" The following 4 pages are in this category, out of 4 total. ... Knight v Knight; R. Rex v. Stewart This page was ...
In 1874, the U.S. government created the United States Reports, and retroactively numbered older privately-published case reports as part of the new series. As a result, cases appearing in volumes 1–90 of U.S. Reports have dual citation forms; one for the volume number of U.S. Reports, and one for the volume number of the reports named for the relevant reporter of decisions (these are called ...
Knight v Knight (1840) [ edit ] In 1836 he launched a lawsuit against his younger brother Thomas Knight (1775–1853) of Papcastle , and others, attempting to recover the estates of his father's first cousin Payne Knight (1750–1824), MP, of Downton Castle , which estates had mostly derived from the family patriarch Richard Knight (1659–1745 ...
Knight clipped out the offending paragraph, wrote a note to Krzyzewski, and stuffed both inside an envelope before he boarded the Indiana bus for the ride to the Metrodome and his encounter with ...
Jones v Lock (1865) 1 Ch App 25 is an English trusts law case, concerning the formality for creating a gift, and the possibility that if the gift were not properly completed with the required legal form, a trust could be found.
"The case went beyond the usual murder mystery as it involved a rich and young tycoon, a slighted king, and a beautiful woman," says Dhaval Kulkarni, author of The Bawla Murder Case: Love, Lust ...