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.
Read MoreThirty ringgit turns five mortal trustees into a body corporate that never dies — and escapes the Companies Act entirely.
Read MoreThe title names five men. It does not name the trust. And the five are mortal.
Read MoreThe company may not hold the land. So let it not hold the land. Four hundred years ago the law worked out how.
Read MoreA man wants to give land to the temple he has worshipped at for forty years. One sentence stops him.
Read MoreA bank searched the title, gave a loan against what it saw, and lost the lot. There was no forger anywhere in this story.
Read MoreMalaysia gives the true owner his land back. The duped buyer gets nothing — until the Land Registry was made to pay.
Read MoreOne judgment was ninety-four per cent copy-paste. How the keyboard killed judicial thought — and how to revive it.
Read MoreThere is a disease at the Bar. The sufferer opens his mouth. He cannot stop.
Read MoreMalaysia and India still let a spoken word cost you your house. Guarantee law has always adapted — so why is theirs frozen in 1872?
Read MoreBefore using trust money for a lawsuit, a careful trustee asks the court first.
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