Malayan Credit Ltd v Jack Chia-MPH Ltd

Subject Matter

JOINT INTEREST — Severance — Proportional shares — Joint lessees specifically apportioning premises for their separate businesses — Rent and other expenses paid in same proportions — Whether beneficial interest held as tenants in common in equity in unequal shares

[1986] AC 549; [1986] 2 WLR 590

LAND — Singapore — Land — Joint interest — Premises leased to two companies for their separate business purposes — Area to be occupied by each specifically apportioned — Rent and other expenses paid in same proportions — Whether beneficial interest held as tenants in common in equity in unequal shares — Conveyancing and Law of Property Act, s 39(1) — Supreme Court of Judicature Act, Sch 1, para 3

[1986] AC 549; [1986] 2 WLR 590