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Full-Text Articles in Estates and Trusts
Trusts-Resulting-Conveyance To Voluntary Grantee To Defraud Creditors
Trusts-Resulting-Conveyance To Voluntary Grantee To Defraud Creditors
Michigan Law Review
The plaintiff and the defendant, husband and wife, were tenants by the entireties in certain real estate. Fearing an action by a supposed creditor against the husband, they conveyed without consideration to a third person who subsequently conveyed to the wife. This was done on the advice of counsel. There was an oral understanding between the plaintiff and the defendant at the time of this conveyance that the husband's interest should be reconveyed in the same roundabout manner after any danger of suit had passed. Due to wise investments on the part of the wife this property became very valuable. …
Trusts - Cancellation - Beneficiaries As Necessary Parties
Trusts - Cancellation - Beneficiaries As Necessary Parties
Michigan Law Review
The plaintiff deeded property to the defendants in trust, for herself for life and on her death to certain named persons. Plaintiff sued the defendants alone for revocation on the ground of fraud and duress. Held, the issue of fraud could not be tried in the absence of the living cestuis. McKnight v. Bank of N. Y. & Trust Co., 254 N. Y. 417, 173 N.E. 568.
Recent Important Decisions
Michigan Law Review
A collection of recent important court decisions.
Trusts-Trust Estates As Bona Fide Purchasers
Trusts-Trust Estates As Bona Fide Purchasers
Michigan Law Review
The doctrine of bona fide purchase is of ancient origin. It has had many significances and interpretations attached to it. At one time it was explained entirely by the special nature of equity and equitable remedies. Maitland used it to show that equities were rights in personam. That the doctrine is no gauge for the quality of the prior estate was shown by Dean Pound, since legal titles may also be cut off. The doctrine has been criticized as anomalous. Two other writers have taken rather different views of the rule. Mr. J. E. Hogg suggests that the bona …
Trusts--Effect Of Statute Of Frauds, J. D. D.
Trusts--Effect Of Statute Of Frauds, J. D. D.
West Virginia Law Review
No abstract provided.