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by GK Ganesan July 31, 2026

Mortmain — the dead hand. England buried the last of it in 1960. Malaysia still carries a fragment, and nobody has explained why.

by GK Ganesan July 31, 2026

Thirty ringgit turns five mortal trustees into a body corporate that never dies — and escapes the Companies Act entirely.

by GK Ganesan July 31, 2026

The title names five men. It does not name the trust. And the five are mortal.

by GK Ganesan July 31, 2026

The company may not hold the land. So let it not hold the land. Four hundred years ago the law worked out how.

by GK Ganesan July 31, 2026

A man wants to give land to the temple he has worshipped at for forty years. One sentence stops him.

by GK Ganesan July 30, 2026

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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

by GK Ganesan July 28, 2026

A bank searched the title, gave a loan against what it saw, and lost the lot. There was no forger anywhere in this story.

by GK Ganesan July 28, 2026

Malaysia gives the true owner his land back. The duped buyer gets nothing — until the Land Registry was made to pay.

by GK Ganesan July 19, 2026

One dreadful word on a front page. One careful court. How “allegedly” failed to save a newspaper.

by GK Ganesan July 14, 2026

One judgment was ninety-four per cent copy-paste. How the keyboard killed judicial thought — and how to revive it.