The Weekly Law Reports
[2019] 2 WLR 1397
Court of Appeal
Rittson-Thomas and others v Oxfordshire County Council
[2019] EWCA Civ 200
2019 Feb 7;
21
Patten, Hamblen, Nicola Davies LJJ
Trusts— Resulting trusts— School site— Grantor conveying land for use as site for school— School subsequently relocating to new site— Land lying vacant between relocation of school and sale— Whether original site being used “as a site for a school … or otherwise for the purposes of education” between relocation of school and sale— Whether grantor’s successors in title entitled to receive proceeds of sale—
School Sites Act 1841 (4 & 5 Vict c 38), ss 2, 14
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Reverter of Sites Act 1987 (c 15), s 1