Non-Charitable Purpose Trusts - General Invalidity of Non-Charitable Purpose Trusts

3 important questions on Non-Charitable Purpose Trusts - General Invalidity of Non-Charitable Purpose Trusts

Morice v Bishop of Durham (1804)

It is a fundamental principle of the law of trusts that the objects of the trust are people rather than purposes, because there need to be ascertained or ascertainable beneficiaries who are in a position to enforce the trust.

Re Astor's Settlement Trusts [1952]

The non-charitable purpose trust was also held to be void because the identified purposes were too uncertain.

Morice v Bishop of Durham (1804)

A trust for 'such objects of benevolence and liberality as the Bishop of Durham' should approve was held to be void because the objects were uncertain.

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