The Dead Hand [Part 5/5]

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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The Best Statute Nobody Uses [Part 4/5]

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

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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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