This direction was held to be valid a fixed trust

This direction was held to be valid. A fixed trust with a condition precedent, the test was held to be more lax for
certainty of object.
For fixed trusts with a condition precedent, it is sufficient simply if only one beneficiary satisfies the condition, even if
the class of potential beneficiaries may be conceptually uncertain under a fixed trust.
(i.e. where the condition to the trust depends on somebody coming forward, as in this case, only one person may satisfy
the condition, even if, as a whole class under a fixed trust, the condition would be too conceptually uncertain)
Re Beaney (1978)
There is no capacity (for certainty of intention)
where there is mental incapacity.
In this case, a settlement made by an
incapacitated person was void.
Nowadays, however s.18(1)(h)(i) of the Mental
Capacity Act 2005 may be applied.
Re Best (1904)
Wording was 'charitable and benevolent'
- use of 'and' suggested that whole gift
could be charitable.
Contrasts with Houston v Burn which was
'benevolent or charitable'.

Re Bucks Constabulary Widows' and
Orphans Fund Friendly Society (No 2)
(1979)
Dissolution of an UA occurs where
membership falls below 2.
Re Compton (1945)
Trust for the descendants of 3 named persons was
held not to be a valid trust.
Personal nexus test.
(The blood and contract test - the presence of a
personal link, either by blood or contract, between
potential beneficiaries will usually indicate a private
trust)
Re Cook
Land was held on trust by a husband and wife for themselves. Since there
were two of them, each could hold the legal title to the land on trust for
themselves and the other. But, when the husband died, the entire interest in
the property, both legal and equitable, vested in the wife.
It was held that the legal interest swallowed up the equitable, so that there
was a merger of the two interests - this meant that the trust was terminated.
Harman J:
"[Y]ou cannot have a trust existing when nobody is interested under it
except the trustee, because nobody can enforce it and there is, in fact, no
trust in existence."
Re Coulthurst (1951)
Poverty is relative:
"It is quite clearly established that poverty does not
mean destitution: it is a word of wife and somewhat
indefinite import; it may not unfairly be paraphrased
for present purposes as meaning persons who have
to 'go short' in the ordinary sense of that term, due to
regard being had to their status in life."
Re Dean (1889)
Concerned a trust for the maintenance
of a testator's horses and hounds for 50
years. Held to be valid - trust of
imperfect obligation.

Re Denley's Trust Deed (1969)
Land was conveyed to trustees. BY clause 2(c) the land was to be maintained and used
for the purpose of a recreation or sports ground primarily for the benefit of employees
and secondarily for the benefit of such other persons (if any) as the trustees may allow to
use the same.