Chapter 1 Multiple choice questions

Introduction to equity and trusts

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. Which of the following statements is false?

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. Which of the following statements was made by the seventeenth century jurist, John Selden?

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. Which of the following statements best summarises the function of the Chancery court, as set out by the Lord Chancellor, Lord Ellesmere in the Earl of Oxford's Case (1615) 1 Rep Ch 1?

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. Which of the following fairly approximates a maxim of Equity?

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. Which of the following accurately describes the function of the Supreme Court of Judicature?

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. What is the missing word in the following passage written by legal historian, Professor Simpson?
The ____ had originated as a personal confidence or trust placed by one person in the other, and even when a ____ became a species of property it continued to bear marks of this origin. Thus it never came to bind the land itself; rather, it was conceived to bind the conscience of persons into whose hands the land came.

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. Which of the following is known as 'Equity's Darling'?

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. Which of the following is NOT an effect of the "forfeiture rule"?

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. Which of the following statements exemplifies the so-called "fusion fallacy"?

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. Which of the following equitable maxims featured in O'Sullivan v Management Agency Ltd [1985] QB 428 (Court of Appeal).

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