Re Pettifor's Will Trusts; Roberts v Roberts

JurisdictionEngland & Wales
Year1966
Date1966
CourtChancery Division
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3 cases
  • Figg v Clarke
    • United Kingdom
    • Chancery Division
    • February 14, 1996
  • Unmarried Settlor v Commissioners of Inland Revenue
    • United Kingdom
    • Special Commissioners (UK)
    • March 11, 2003
    ...of what is unlikely to happen and proceed on the view that the highly unlikely will never happen. Thus in Re Pettifor's Will TrustsELR[1966] Ch 257 the court held it was an improper use of theVariation of Trusts Act 1958 to vary a trust on the basis that a woman of 78 would not have a child......
  • Merry Estate, Re, [2002] O.T.C. 921 (SC)
    • Canada
    • Ontario Superior Court of Justice of Ontario (Canada)
    • November 21, 2002
    ...Bernstein, [1960] Ch. 444; In re Westminster Bank Ltd's Declaration of Trust , [1963] 2 All E. R. 400; and In re Pettifor's Will Trust , [1966] Ch. 257. Many other decisions in which the practice was observed are noted in Morris and Leach, The Rule Against Perpetuties (2 nd Edition, 1962), ......

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