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.
Read MoreBacon said judges are lions under the throne. Mahadev Shankar made them tigers, and meant it.
Read MoreMortmain — the dead hand. England buried the last of it in 1960. Malaysia still carries a fragment, and nobody has explained why.
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 MoreTen 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]
Read MoreA 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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