Property Law: Key Cases

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Hint	Answer
Acquisition
Lifetime gift	Milroy v Lord (1862)
Intention to give	Glaister-Carlisle [1968]
Actual delivery	Re Cole [1964]
Constructive delivery	Thomas v Times Book Co [1966]
Symbolic delivery	Lock v Heath (1892)
Factual possession	Red House Farms [1977]
Intention to possess	JA PYE v Graham [2003]
Email signature	Green v Ireland [2011]
Registration
Actual occupation	Link Lending v Bustard [2010]
Intention to return	Chokhar [1984]
'Statutory magic'	Swift 1st Ltd v Chief Land Registrar [2015]
Indemnity	Re Chowood's Registered Land [1933]
Register mistakes	Gold Harp Ltd v Macleod [2014]
Fixed Express Trusts
3 certainties	Knight v Knight (1840)
Certainty of intention	Re Adams (1884)
Certainty of subject matter	Boyce v Boyce (1849)
Self- declaration	Paul v Constance [1977]
Certainty of objects	IRC v Broadway cottages [1954]

Hint	Answer
Fiduciary Duties
Trustee as purchaser: lease renewal	Keech v Sandford (1726)
Trustee as purchaser: trust property	Lacey (1802)
Trustee as vendor: setting purchase aside	Armstrong v Jackson [1917]
Trustee as vendor: claiming fiduciary's profit	Bentley v Craven (1853)
Trustee as vendor: Director's fees paid	Re Macadam [1946]
Company directors	IDC v Cooley [1972]
Loss of Property Rights
Right to possession	Four-Maids Ltd [1957]
Dwelling house	Miller [2001]
Action for possession	Ropaigelach [2000]
By mortgagee	Clark and Beech [2009]
Reasonable period	Norgan [1996]
'Any sums due'	Halifax BS v Clark (1973)
Occupier has exclusive possession?	Street v Mountford [1985]
Equity
Every effort doctrine	Re Rose [1952]
Most recent key display of the prior	Curtis v Pulbrook [2011]