Dillwyn v Llewelyn

JurisdictionEngland & Wales
Judgment Date01 January 1862
Date01 January 1862
CourtHigh Court of Chancery
Dillwyn
and
Llewelyn

English Reports Citation: 45 E.R. 1285

BEFORE THE LORD CHANCELLOR LORD WESTBURY.

S. C. 6 L. T. 878; 8 Jur. (N. S.), 425, 1068; 10 W. R. 412, 742. See Plimmer v. Mayor, &c., of Wellington, 1884, 9 App. Cas. 713.

DEO.F. &J.J17. DILLWYN V. LLEWELYN 1285 [517] dillwyn -. llewelyn. Before the Lord Chancellor Lord Westbury.. June 4, July 12, 1862. [S. C. 6 L. T. 878; 8 Jur. (N. S.), 425, 1068; 10 W. R. 412, 742. See Plimmer v. Ifai/oi-, c&fi., of JFdlingtmt, 1884, 9 App. Cas. 713.] A father placed one of his sons iu possession of land belonging to the father, and at the same time signed a memorandum that he had presented the laud to the sou for the purpose of furnishing him with a dwelling-house. The son, with the assent and approbation of the father, built at his own expense a house upon the land and resided there. Held, that this was not a mere incomplete gift, but that the sou was entitled to call for a legal conveyance, and not merely of a life-estate, but of the whole fee simple. This was the appeal of the Plaintiff from a decree of the Master of the Rolls declaring the Plaintiff entitled to a conveyance of, but only of, a life-estate in certain lands in which he claimed an estate in fee-simple. Thu grounds of the decision were, that a gift of the lauds had been made to the Plaintiff by his father, Llewelyn W. Dillwyn, the testator in the cause, under such circumstances as to entitle the Plaintiff to call for a conveyance of the legal estate, but that according to the terms of the memorandum of gift an estate for life only was intended. Before the date of the gift iu question, the father made his will dated the 21st .Tune 1847, whereby he devised all and singular his real estates, both freehold and copyhold, in the two counties of Glamorgan and [518] Caermarthen, with the appurtenances, unto John Montgomery Traherne and to the Defendant John Dillwyu Llewelyn, who was the testator's eldest son, and the Plaintiff Lewis Llewelyn Dillwyn, who was the testator's second son, their heirs and assigns, upon trust after the testator's decease to convey and assure the same to the use of the testator's wife for life, with remainder to the use of or in trust for the Plaintiff and his assigns for his life without impeachment of waste, with a limitation to trustees to provide contingent remainders, with remainder to the use of or in trust for the son or sons of the Plaintiff in such proportions, if there should be more than one sou, as...

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