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The Pamphlet Collection of Sir Robert Stout: Volume 27
Equity
Equity.
(Candidates for admission as Solicitors need not answer Questions 11,15, and 16.)
| 1. | Is an actual transfer of property to a trustee necessary to the creation of an express trust? | ||||||||||
| 2. | Will equity enforce the execution of a voluntary trust? | ||||||||||
| 3. | "Joint tenancy is not favoured in equity." Explain this. | ||||||||||
| 4. | A wife joins with her husband in mortgaging her estate, the equity of redemtion being reserved to the husband: What is the rule of equity in such a case?page 3 |
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| 5. | What is the rule of equity as to the remuneration of trustees and the payment of their expenses in administering the trusts vested in them? | ||||||||||
| 6. | In what order are the assets of a person deceased applied by a Court of Equity in payment of debts? | ||||||||||
| 7. | Explain and illustrate the doctrine of apportionment and contribution. | ||||||||||
| 8. | What is meant by a fraud on a power of appointment? | ||||||||||
| 9. | Can an infant obtain a decree for specific performance of a contract? Give reasons for your answer. | ||||||||||
| 10. | Will equity decree specific performance of a voluntary covenant? | ||||||||||
| 11. | What are the remedies in equity for mistakes? Give examples of mistakes that will be remedied. | ||||||||||
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A purchaser of land takes a conveyance—
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| 13. | A tenant for life of a freehold estate pays off encumbrances on the estate: What is the equitable presumption with reference thereto, and is it conclusive? | ||||||||||
| 14. | State the general principles on which a Court of Equity will act in a suit for specific performance of a sale of land, the quantity being deficient. | ||||||||||
| 15. | How far are the rules of equity as to covenants running with the land in conflict with those of the Common Law? | ||||||||||
| 16. | Explain the equitable doctrine of making good representations. |