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See Westdeutsche Landesbank Girozentrale v Islington LBC (1996) AC 669,708. See Swadling, “A Hard Look at Hodgson v Marks”, Rickett and Grantham, “Resulting Trusts—A Rather Limited Doctrine”, Payne, “Quistclose and Resulting Trusts”. Peter Birks and Francis Rose, Restitution and Equity, Vol. I, Mansfield Press, 4.

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• TITLE: Understanding the Nature of the Presumption of Resulting Trusts

  AUTHORS: Xueping Chen

  KEYWORDS: Presumption, Resulting Trusts, Intention, Evidential Circumstances

  JOURNAL NAME: Open Access Library Journal, Vol.1 No.5, August 21, 2014

  ABSTRACT: The nature of the presumption of a resulting trust has generated a controversy, which has created two schools of thoughts. Both schools of thoughts claim that resulting trusts give effect to the presumed intention, positive or negative. But in this paper, I take on a quite different view of point that whether a lack of intent to benefit or a positive intent to create a trust is not related with the presumption of the resulting trusts, which, I believe, will make it interesting to general readers. Further, this paper thinks the presumption of a resulting trust as circumstances or facts based on presumption, legal presumption and thinks that it can be rebutted by evidential circumstances, which are helpful to ascertain the grounds for imposing a resulting trust. In a word, exploring the nature of the presumption of resulting trusts will aid in the understanding the grounds upon which a resulting trust is imposed. This article proceeds under four parts: the role of intention in the presumption of the resulting trusts; the circumstances or facts based on presumption; a legal presumption; rebutting by evidential circumstances.