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Eoin O'Dell
wrote:
Hello all Notwithstanding Prof Birks' reports of its demise,
the remedial constructive trust is, it seems, alive and well and living
in the Irish High Court. the case thereafter described imposes a constructive
trust on a person receiving by will property which the testator had intended
to convey to another under an instrument which by mistake did not have
that effect
1. the same result would have been effected through the
court's reforming the instrument to include the inadvertently omitted
property [a reformation effective against the testator's successor who
was not a purchaser for value]
2. if reformation had been the theory of decision, it
might have been noted that the deed was being reformed up -- ie to include
more property than the original writing.
US cases have held 'reforming up' is improper as to land
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