Hearings
England & Wales
27 Mar 1969 [1970] Ch 75; [1969] 3 WLR 63; [1969] 2 All ER 862, Ch D
In re Pennant’s Will Trusts
Subject Matter
ADMINISTRATION OF ESTATES — Vesting — Legal estate — Testamentary settlement — Conveyance for value of part of settled land to tenant for life — Conveyance by executors as personal representatives — Whether legal estate passed freed and discharged from trusts of settlement — Whether conveyance deemed to be made with intention of operating statutory powers — Whether tenant for life to be a conveying party as well as party to whom conveyed — Settled Land Act, 1925, ss 6, 30 (3), 68 (2)
SETTLED LAND — Tenant for life — Powers — Testamentary settlement — Conveyance for value of part of the settled land to tenant for life — Conveyance by all executors including purchasing tenant for life as personal representatives — Whether legal estate passed freed and discharged from trusts of the settlement — Whether conveyance to be treated as made with intention of operating trustees' statutory powers — Whether tenant for life should be a conveying party as well as party to whom conveyed — Settled Land Act, 1925, ss 6, 30 (3), 68 (2)