The Law Reports (Chancery Division)
[1937] Ch 642
[CHANCERY DIVISION]
In re
DUCE AND BOOTS CASH CHEMISTS (SOUTHERN), LIMITED'S CONTRACT.
[1937. D. 636.]
1937 June 22,
23,
24;
July 28.
July 28.
BENNETT J.
Vendor and purchaser
— Sale of land
— Abstract of title
— Requisitions
— Will of previous owner disclosed
— Son to whom land bequeathed appointed sole executor
— Daughter given right to occupy land during life or spinsterhood
— Vesting assent by son
— Consent to land vesting in himself
— No release of her right by daughter
— Whether vesting assent conclusive evidence that son “entitled to have the legal estate conveyed to him”
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Administration of Estates Act, 1925 (15 Geo. 5, c. 23), s. 36, sub-s. 7.