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  1. Secret Trusts Essay

    Secret Trusts Essay. "Fully explain and analyse the law relating to secret and half secret trusts and critically evaluate the following statement: 'The enforcement of secret and half secret trusts demonstrates the equitable principle that statute and common law shall not be used as an engine of fraud and illustrates the willingness of ...

  2. Secret Trusts and The Wills Act

    Under S9 of Wills Act 1837 [ 1] , last wishes should be made in writing, signed by the testator whose signature is witnessed by two people. However, there is exception to S9 [ 2] , namely the secret trust. Generally, secret trust arises in the situation where a settlor communicates to the intended trustee that the settlor would pass property to ...

  3. The Rationale for Half and Fully Secret Trusts

    The Rationale for Half and Fully Secret Trusts. A description of fully secret trusts. A fully secret trust arises where a testator leaves money to a beneficiary who, on the face of the will, appears to take absolutely, but who is in fact a trustee for someone else. The trust is 'secret' because, whereas the will is public and can be seen ...

  4. Secret trusts and testamentary freedom

    Full secret trusts are trusts in which there is no reference to the trust obligation in the will. 10 Even an orally created full secret trust may be admissible in court if it can be shown that the settlor, or person making the trust, intended to create such a trust. 11 Under a full secret trust, when property is left to a legatee in a will ...

  5. Equity: Formalities and Secret Trusts

    A fully secret trust is enforceable if: The three certainties are satisfied: Re Boyes (1884) LR 26 Ch D 531. The settlor communicated their intention to create a trust to the secret trustee during their lifetime.; The trust terms are consistent with the terms of the will: Re Keen [1937] Ch 236. The secret trustee agreed to the terms of the trust: Ottaway v Norman [1972] 2 WLR 50.

  6. Justification for Secret and Half Trusts

    This question concerns secret and half-secret trusts. The quote by Viscount Sumner provides one justification for the existence of this type of trust. This paper will examine this justification by considering the problems that it causes and whether or not the disadvantages outweigh the benefits. The final third of the paper will consider ...

  7. Secret Trusts and Estates: What are they and how do they work?

    Secret trusts arise when a testator or intestate person fails to comply with the legal requirements to make a will before dying but imposes an obligation on someone to hold property in trust for a third person. This is especially important where that property is land because the Law and Equity Act, requires any agreement concerning land to be ...

  8. Secret Trusts

    1st Essay - Secret Trusts "Secret trusts appear to contradict the clear policy of the Wills Act 1837". Critically evaluate this statement and explain how equity has justified the enforcement of secret trusts Structure Intro In order to critically evaluate the theoretical basis for secret trusts and whether they appear to contradict the clear policy of the Wills Act 1837 we must first ...

  9. Reconceptualizing the fully-secret trust

    Abstract. In reconceptualizing the fully-secret trust, this article attempts to resolve a number of long-standing disagreements, such as why secret trusts are enforced despite non-compliance with the Wills Act, and whether fully-secret trusts are inter vivos or testamentary. It also briefly addresses broader theoretical questions about trust law, such as whether a transfer can simultaneously ...

  10. Secret trusts in English law

    In English law, secret trusts are a class of trust defined as an arrangement between a testator and a trustee, made to come into force after death, that aims to benefit a person without having been written in a formal will.The property is given to the trustee in the will, and he would then be expected to pass it on to the real beneficiary.For these to be valid, the person seeking to enforce ...

  11. Secret Trusts: Are They a 'Conceptual Conundrum'?

    Abstract. The Doctrine of the Secret Trust is a strong area of contention; academics struggle to agree on even the fundamental justifications and basic functions of the Secret Trust. This article seeks to purvey the view that there is not a 'conceptual conundrum' surrounding these issues.

  12. PDF The Secret Life of the Trust: The Trust as an Instrument of Commerce

    1997] Secret Life of the Trust. of enterprise in the nineteenth century, 31 until the general corporation statutes made the company form easily available. American competition law still bears the curious label of "antitrust," a legacy from the monopolists of the Gilded Age, who organized their firms as trusts.

  13. The need for the abolition of secret trusts

    Abstract. Comprehensive review of secret trusts and all the theoretical and practical justifications for enforcing them explains that secret trusts should be abolished because not only are these justifications inadequate, but enforcement results in negative consequences also. Firstly, this article will set out the constitutional justifications ...

  14. Equity and Trusts First-Class Coursework Essay (Awarded an 80, JD Level)

    Submitted by: Stefania Garlicka Question: Critically discuss the principles on which fully secret and half-secret trusts are enforced, with reference to the above statement."Secret and half-secret trusts are outmoded and should be abolished."1. Introduction The formality requirements for putting together a valid document in the form of a 'will' are outlined in the Wills Act 1837 (the ...

  15. Secret Trust Essay, All Approach, 2;1 Quality

    Udoy Shawkat AliSecret Trust Essay. Secret Trust Introduction. Trusts are generally regulated with strict rules to be adjudged to be valid. The Wills Act 1837 being the most significant statute in terms of testamentary trust. Secret trusts constitute an exception in this regard. Courts have accepted secret trust even though they do not fulfil ...

  16. The True Purpose of Secret Trust

    The. theory claims that secret trusts are governed by the law of trusts and not that of probate, and yet. these trusts involve a departure from the usual rules pertaining to trusts. For in upholding secret. trusts, the courts are allowing *CONVPL 495 trusts to bind after-acquired property, and under the.

  17. Equity Essay

    This essay will critically evaluate the perspective that secret trusts exist to prevent fraud. In doing so, it will analyse the validity of the fraud justification for secret trusts and compare it with other justificatory arguments such as the 'dehors-the-will' theory and the 'incorporation by reference' doctrine.

  18. PDF Secret trusts: dehors the Wills Act (not the will)

    An outline of secret trusts The formal requirements for a will The formalities for making a will are laid down in Wills Act 1837, s. 9: basically, a will is invalid unless in writing, signed and witnessed.7 Fully secret trusts A fully secret trust arises when a settlor leaves somone to inherit their property, apparently as

  19. Fraud Prevention? Dehors? Or What?: why secret trusts are enforced

    The dehors theory argues that secret trusts are inter vivos (thus, non-testamentary) express trusts declared by the testator. 21 The trust itself is declared when the trust is communicated to the trustee by the testator, and is fully constituted at the point when the testator passes away and the identified property is transferred. 22 In other ...

  20. Secret trusts

    This page of the essay has 2,475 words. Download the full version above. Secret trusts arise where a testator explains to X that they want property to be held on trust for Y and then leaves the property to X in their Will. It is also possible that a secret trust arises where in reliance on a promise to implement the trust by X, no Will is made ...

  21. Equity LAW2041 Coursework Essay First-Class

    In doing so, it will analyse the validity of the fraud justification for secret trusts and compare it with other justificatory arguments such as the 'dehors-the-will' theory and the 'incorporation by reference' doctrine. This essay will first consider why secret trusts may arise in Equity. Firstly, a need for a secret trust may arise ...

  22. Secret Trust Essay plan

    This is due to the fact that if secret trusts are express trusts, trust over land would need to be evidenced in writing under s. 53(1)(b) Law of Property Act 1925, while in Ottaway v Norman, it was suggested that in the case of fully secret trusts, no writing was required although writing was still required under half secret trusts of land.

  23. Anne Frank's Secret Retreat: The Day She Disappeared from the Public

    Essay Example: On a warm summer day, July 6, 1942, Anne Frank and her family took a drastic step that would etch their names into the annals of history. ... The Secret Annex was concealed behind Otto Frank's business premises. Up a narrow flight of stairs and hidden behind a movable bookcase, the small group of eight people would live in ...

  24. Secret Trust essay

    Trust" (essay) Secret trust is an equitable obligation which is communicated to an intended trustee during the testator's lifetime to hold the property on trust for the beneficiary whose name is not mentioned in the Will. It mainly demonstrates the willingness of equity to contravene straightforward statutory principles laid down in Wills ...