Estate of Grier

• Jurisdiction: Ireland
• Judgment Date: 18 July 1872
• Date: 18 July 1872
• Court: House of Lords (Ireland)

H. L.

ESTATE OF GRIER.

Domville, Lawrence, & Graham L. R. W. Notes, 3rd August, 1872, p. 181.

Settlement — "Issue" — Court of Appeal.

386 THE IRISH REPORTS. [I. R. V. C. Court. was,entitled to hold the lands for his own benefit, free from any 1872. personal equity or obligation. A decree was, however, made SEXTON against him, declaring him a trustee of the lands for the legatees, M'GRATIT. 'and they were sold in that suit at a considerable advance of price. It was held that, though the operation of the conveyance was to pass the estate free from all prior estates and interests, it could not prevent the equity arising from the fiduciary position of the purÂÂÂ.chaser attaching upon the property acquired by him by the purÂÂÂchase. I have never had any doubt of the soundness of the principle applied to that case, and I am of opinion that the same principle governs the...