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Chapter 4 Multiple choice questions
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Chapter 4 Multiple choice questions
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What type of property are shares in a company?
Chattels personal
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Chattels real
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Real Property
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Choses in action
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Which of the following is no longer required to make a valid deed?
Signature
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Witnesses
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Delivery
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A seal
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A chattel can be transferred
By writing
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By manual delivery
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By using the official form
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Orally
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For which type of property must the declaration of trust be made in writing?
Land
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Goods
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Shares
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Choses in action
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Why was writing
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required in
Re Vandervell (No 2)
[1974] Ch 269?
A resulting trust arises by operation of law
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A declaration of trust of shares requires no writing
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No separate writing is required when the equitable interest moves with the legal estate
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It was a constructive trust
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In
Milroy v Lord
(1862) 4 D & G, F & J 264 why did the settlor fail to establish a trust?
The settlor had failed to transfer the shares to the trustees
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The settlor had failed to tell the trustees that he held the shares on trust
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The settlor had failed to declare himself a trustee of the shares
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The trustee failed to transfer the shares
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Why were the court in
Pennington v Waine
[2002] 1 WLR 2075 willing to make an exception to the principles laid down in
Milroy v Lord
(1862) 4 D & G, F & J 264?
The settlor was attempting to make a gift, not establish a trust
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The settlor at least sent the share transfer forms to the company
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It would be unconscionable not to give effect to the wishes of the settlor
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It was the clear intention of the settlor to make a gift
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An incompletely constituted trust is
A trust where the property has not been properly transferred to the trustees
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A trust where the declaration of trust has been improperly made
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A trust where a party has not kept their promise to transfer property to the trust
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A trust where the beneficiaries cannot enforce the trust
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Why cannot beneficiaries enforce covenants to transfer property to the trustees?
Because it would be inequitable to allow them to do so
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The covenant refers to property that does not yet exist
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The beneficiaries are not parties to the contract in the covenant
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Beneficiaries cannot enforce a trust
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What is a marriage settlement?
A trust of the family home
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Any trust that a married couple make
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A trust that provides for the marrying couple and the family that they hope to have
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An agreement between a married couple on how they hold their joint assets
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Which of the following
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enforce the covenant in a marriage settlement?
The children of the marriage
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The husband and wife
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The trustees
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The next of kin
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