Hearings
England & Wales
20 Jan 1948 [1948] Ch 212, Ch D
In Re Cook Beck v Grant
Subject Matter
TRUST FOR SALE — Conveyance of freeholds before 1926 to two joint tenants — Imposition of statutory trust for sale — Death of one joint tenant — Property vests in survivor free from statutory trusts — Law of Property Act, 1925 (15 Geo. 5, c. 20), s. 36.
WILL — Construction — Residuary gift of “personal estate” does not pass such surviving joint tenant's interest in freeholds.