''Whelpdale v Cookson'' (1747) 27 ER 856 is an
English trusts law
English trust law concerns the protection of assets, usually when they are held by one party for another's benefit. Trusts were a creation of the English law of property and obligations, and share a subsequent history with countries across the ...
case, also relevant for
UK company law, on the duty of loyalty owed by a trustee to beneficiaries of the trust.
Facts
A trustee purchased land that was owned by the trust.
Judgment
Lord Hardwicke
Philip Yorke, 1st Earl of Hardwicke, (1 December 16906 March 1764) was an English lawyer and politician who served as Lord High Chancellor of Great Britain. He was a close confidant of the Duke of Newcastle, Prime Minister between 1754 and 1 ...
gave the judgment of the court. The text in the English Report reads as follows.
[(1747) 27 ER 856, ie Vol. 27, p.856]
See also
*''
Keech v Sandford''
Notes
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English trusts case law
United Kingdom company case law
1747 in British law
Court of Chancery cases