The court will not listen to a claim by a cestui que trust trying to challenge accounts settled by his trustees where those accounts had been settled for more than twenty years and he had had ample opportunity to go into them. Lapse of time alone is not sufficient to bar such a suit.
Citations:
(1860) 29 Beav 606
Jurisdiction:
England and Wales
Cited by:
Cited – Patel and others v Shah and others CA 15-Feb-2005
The parties entered into a commercial agreement for the sale and purchase of properties.
Held: The claimants had failed to meet their part of the bargain, and had failed to make mortgage payments, leaving the defendants to do so. The . .
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Equity
Updated: 24 November 2022; Ref: scu.223437