No. A proclamation is the gate; the Constitution is the register. Only one of them moves the title.
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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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Thirty ringgit turns five mortal trustees into a body corporate that never dies — and escapes the Companies Act entirely.
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The title names five men. It does not name the trust. And the five are mortal.
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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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A man wants to give land to the temple he has worshipped at for forty years. One sentence stops him.
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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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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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Two friends bin a beer and a coffee together. So why must Selangor's rubbish now declare its faith?
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