The limits of proprietary estoppel: Thorner v Major

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2009
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Mee, John
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Considers the House of Lords decision in Thorner v Major, reported as Thorner v Curtis, on whether a farmer who had worked without pay on his cousin's farm because of vague assurances that he would inherit the farm, had a claim in proprietary estoppel when the cousin died intestate. Discusses how the reasoning in the instant case differed from the earlier House of Lords decision in Cobbe v Yeoman's Row Management Ltd, the importance of certainty of representation and of the subject matter of the representation and the relationship between proprietary estoppel and constructive trusts.
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Constructive trusts , Farms , Intestacy , Proprietary estoppel
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Mee, J. (2009) 'The limits of proprietary estoppel', Child and Family Law Quarterly, 21(3), pp. 367-383.
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