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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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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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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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Can Your Bank Simply Help Itself to Your Money? The Commonwealth’s Law on Banker’s Set-Off
A liquidator's letter, a frozen account, and a bank that helped itself to the money anyway — from London to Kuala Lumpur, the law draws a line
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Can Your Seller Mortgage the House You Have Already Paid For? [Part 4 – Land Scams]
A bank searched the title, gave a loan against what it saw, and lost the lot. There was no forger anywhere in this story.
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Who Pays When the Forger Has Vanished? [Part 3 – Land Scams]
Malaysia gives the true owner his land back. The duped buyer gets nothing — until the Land Registry was made to pay.
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What Question Does No True Owner Ever Ask? [Part-2-Land Scams]
Ten agents. One identical email. A single question that no genuine owner ever needs to ask — and it saved a $900,000 block of land. [Part-2 of Land Scams]
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Who Keeps the Land a Forger Sold — the Owner or the Buyer? [Part-1-Land Scams]
A wife forged her husband's signature. The farm passed to strangers. The Privy Council let them keep it — and half the Torrens world still would.
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Whose Mind Must a Judgment Actually Show? (Or Judicial Plagiarism)
A judge reproduced a lawyer’s submissions almost word for word. Two Commonwealth traditions have quietly answered why that matters.
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Can One Word — “Allegedly” — Shield a Newspaper from Libel?
One dreadful word on a front page. One careful court. How “allegedly” failed to save a newspaper.
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