Davie v Davies’ Trustees: OHCS 1900

A trust disposition which had confined the pursuer to a liferent for as long as the trustees exercised the discretion which they had been given to retain the capital was struck at by section 48 of the Act.

Judges:

Lord Low

Citations:

(1900) 8 SLT 28

Statutes:

Entail Amendment (Scotland) Act 1848 47

Jurisdiction:

Scotland

Cited by:

CitedEarl of Balfour v Keeper of the Registers of Scotland and Others HL 6-Nov-2002
The applicant sought a declaration that he was the owner of land by virtue of the 1848 Act, claiming that a series of grants of liferent were ineffective to restrict the title transferred.
Held: Miller’s Trustees was to be applied in to the . .
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Updated: 09 May 2022; Ref: scu.186366