Littleton's Case
| Jurisdiction | England & Wales |
| Judgment Date | 01 January 1603 |
| Date | 01 January 1603 |
| Court | High Court of Chancery |
English Reports Citation: 21 E.R. 16
IN CHANCERY
16 littleton's case oaet, 2&. littleton's case. Lands intended to be given to a school, after otherwise disposed by will.-George-Littleton, of the Inner Temple, lent money upon bonds taken in other men's names,, and had not any in his own name ; among the rest he purchased five marks per annum in two other men's names, with this trust, that he might enjoy it during his life, and after it should be to the erecting of a school in the town where the said George was born and buried, as the feoffees declared in their answer; [29] and in his lifetime, after the purchase, he repealed his intent of converting the same to the use of the school to divers others ; but by his will he gave certain acres of land to I C and I H, and then devised all the rest of his lands to his brother's son, who sues Ceux que trust for converting unto him the five marks of land, which Justice Warburton presently decreed for him, saying, his will was his declaration. But in his words there was but a meaning only expressed (me contradicente), for if I C make a feoffment to the use over according to articles annexed, he cannot alter the same by a later...
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