Grant V Edwards
Grant v Edwards was an English Court of Appeal case on common intention constructive trusts. It applied the decision in '' Eves v Eves'' 975and widened its effect to a 50% share in many future contributory common intention constructive trusts, where also an express intention is shown to have put the house into joint names, never fulfilled. Facts A house was purchased for the claimant and defendant to live in as if married. The plaintiff was in fact married to someone else and the house was purchased in the name of the defendant and the defendant's brother. The defendant had used words to the effect that, by way of explanation to the plaintiff, he would not put the claimants name into a title deed ("On the deeds") yet as it would be prejudicial towards matrimonial proceedings between the claimant and her husband ("your divorce"). The facts above were closely analogous to ''Eves v Eves''. However in ''Grant v Edwards'' less work was done by the claimant and the explanation ...
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