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Leading Case
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City of London Building Society v Flegg
[1987] UKHL 6; [1988] AC 54
Key Principle
Where capital money is paid to two or more trustees on a mortgage, the beneficiaries' interests are overreached and shifted to the proceeds; they cannot then assert those interests as overriding interests through actual occupation.
Area of Law
Land & Property
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