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13–20 minutes to read
Is There Any Point in Learning Things by Heart? (Justice Mahadev Shankar)
Bacon said judges are lions under the throne. Mahadev Shankar made them tigers, and meant it.
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10–14 minutes to read
Mortmain — the dead hand. England buried the last of it in 1960. Malaysia still carries a fragment, and nobody has explained why.
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6–9 minutes to read
The Best Statute Nobody Uses [Part 4/5]
Thirty ringgit turns five mortal trustees into a body corporate that never dies — and escapes the Companies Act entirely.
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8–11 minutes to read
Your Trust Is Invisible, and Your Trustee Is Mortal [Part 3/5]
The title names five men. It does not name the trust. And the five are mortal.
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8–11 minutes to read
The Oldest Trick in Equity [Part 2/5]
The company may not hold the land. So let it not hold the land. Four hundred years ago the law worked out how.
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5–7 minutes to read
Can Your Temple Own the Land It Stands On? [Part 1/5]
A man wants to give land to the temple he has worshipped at for forty years. One sentence stops him.
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