References: [1853] EngR 1085, (1853) 1 Sm & G 590, (1853) 65 ER 258
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The father of a female infant, who was himself tenant by the curtesy, but whose right was regarded as doubtful, became next friend of his daughter in a suit against the trustee of his late wife’s real estates, in which a decree was obtained for a partition, and conveyance of the infant’s portion to the father, until she attained twenty one, and then to the use of the infant in fee. The father received the rents and profits, and duly accounted to his daughter in respect of them ; but, on her marriage, filed a bill against her and her husband, for a declaration that his daughter’s interest in the estate might be declared, subject to his estate by curtesy. Held, that the Plaintiff, having relinquished what was regarded as a doubtful right, by an arrangement under which he derived a benefit, was not entitled to relief. Semble -A wife, entitled to real estate sested in trustees, who, under an erroneous impression of her rights, paid the rents to other persons, died, without having received the rents, leaving her husband and one daughter her surviving that; the husband was tenant by the curtesy.
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- Cited – Gibbon -v- Mitchell ChD ([1990] 1 WLR 1304, [1990] 3 All ER 338)
G executed a deed surrendering his life interest in a trust fund in order to vest the property in his two children: the deed did not have that effect because of two errors (one of which was ignoring the fact that his life interest was subject to . .
