The Weekly Law Reports
[1999] 2 WLR 720
[COURT OF APPEAL]
LOWSON
v.
COOMBES
1998 Nov. 26
Nourse, Henry and Robert Walker L.JJ.
Equity
— Equitable interest
— Illegality
— House jointly purchased by man and mistress
— Conveyed into her sole name to avoid potential claim by man's wife
— Whether purpose of conveyance into mistress's sole name illegal
— Whether man entitled to declaration of beneficial interest in property
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Matrimonial Causes Act 1973 (c. 18), s. 37(2)(b)
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