Explain How And Why A Secret Trust Should Face Outside The Wills Act 1837

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However, there is an argument of opinion regarding how and why a secret trust should face outside the Wills Act 1837.Thus, Lord Warrington said in Blackwell v Blackwell case that what is enforced is not a trust imposed by the will but one arising from the acceptance by the legatee of a trust communicated to him by the testator on the faith of which acceptance the will was made or left unrevoked. The dehors’ theory and fraud theory are necessary to explain the enforcement of secret trust. Further this theory elaborated secret trust not compulsorily match with Section 9 of wills act 1837 .The orthodox view of this theory is that secret trusts are express inter vivos trust to which the requirements of the wills act are of no relevance. If the …show more content…

Will Trusts are come in to action by succession law, and succession law come into enforce the position of Trustees, Beneficiaries and their rights over the assets. They need protecting and the guideline should therefore apply to Will Trusts and Statutory Trusts.As we discussed earlier Intention, Communication and acceptance are very important to the secret trust. We can divide trust in to two categories. In general both trust fully secret trust and half secret trust are look similar. There are no much more different but, when we consider deep in to it, we can see the difference between this. Intention and acceptance are both similar in these two trusts however, communication wise there is a bit difference. In full secret trust do not mention the beneficiary in the Will. Only they get the trustee and it’s communicated. When there are no beneficiary means it may lead wrong. Therefore fraud can be arising in this trust. In half secret trust they have to clearly mention the trustee and the trust. When we have a clearly defined trustee and trust it might reduce fraud a lot and beneficiary can claim in the court because there is a valid trust. Fraudulence is the main fact we have to consider in trust. According to this analyse on these matters half secret trust is more than satisfactory compare to full secret

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