Two modern secret trusts

Two modern secret trusts

Author: Elizabeth Hailstone (1999)

Elizabeth Hailstone
Barrister

(From Issue 6,January 1999)

Mutual wills are apparently popular.  Cases on the law of secret trusts are few and far between.  Snell’s Equity 29th Edn at p108 states the fully secret trust principle thus:

“If a testator makes a gift of property to T without saying that he is to hold it on trust, and either before or after making his will tells T that he wishes him to hold the property on trust for P, T will be compelled to carry out the trust if T either expressly promises that he will do so or by silence implies it.”

The principle was applied to a non-testamentary disposition in Gold and Gilbert v Hill, reported in The Times on 24th August, 1998.

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