Law

Should the Scope of the Safe Harbor for a Constructive Trust Claim Differ Depending on Whether the Claim Is Based on State Law or Foreign Law?

The U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of New York recently denied motions to dismiss constructive trust claims asserted under the laws of the British Virgin Islands (BVI) even though the ...
Law

This Week in Scott Mollen’s Realty Law Digest: Constructive Trust Claim; Succession Rights; Tenant ‘Blacklisting Law’

Constructive Trust Claim—Motion To Dismiss Denied—Elements of Constructive Trust Are “A Confidential Relationship, a Promise, a Transfer In Reliance Thereon and Unjust Enrichment”—Those Elements Are ...
Solicitors Journal

Hampshire v Bonser: constructive trust establishes beneficial interest after 25-year cohabitation

In Hampshire v Bonser [2025] EWCC 55, HHJ Owen awarded a 15% beneficial interest in a property to a cohabitant despite the property being registered in the defendant's sole name and the claimant ...
JSTOR Daily

Corporations. Constructive Trust. Conveyance by "Dummy" Corporation in Fraud of Creditors

Founded in 1901, the Columbia Law Review is a leader in legal scholarship in the United States and around the world. The Review is an independent nonprofit corporation edited and published entirely by ...
JSTOR Daily

Trusts. Constructive Trust Held Inapplicable to Gift by Will of Victim to Slayer Convicted of Manslaughter Where Statute Barred Only Those Convicted of First or Second Degree ...

The Virginia Law Review is a journal of general legal scholarship published by the students of the University of Virginia School of Law. The continuing objective of the Virginia Law Review is to ...