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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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 a voter sue his MP for switching sides?
Suppose an MP switches sides, so as to collapse the government. Can a voter in his constituency sue his MP? The answer seems to be, in theory, a Yes.
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