119 year service; clutter clearance & picking up litigation
The ‘old ones’ are the best
My lecturer at the College of Law (before it morphed into something else and its profits were hit) assured us on introducing equity as the subject for study that it was ‘a load of nebulous c**p’. He had a point—but only to a point. Provided hands are clean, it can do a litigant a power of good. Take the equitable doctrine of exoneration, for example. You may have popped into the Court of Appeal when judgments were being delivered in Paget v Paget [1898] 1 Ch 470 which was big on exoneration. It has taken 119 years for the equity to return to the Court of Appeal in Armstrong (as Trustee in Bankruptcy of Onyearu) v Onyearu and another [2017] EWCA Civ 268.
This is how the equity works. If property is jointly owned by A and B and is charged by A to secure the debts of B only, it is presumed that A intended to enter into the charge simply be way of security and is entitled
