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Lyus v Prowsa Developments Ltd

[1982] 1 WLR 1044; [1982] 2 All ER 953
JurisdictionUnited Kingdom
CourtHigh Court of Justice, Chancery Division
Year1982
StatusPersuasive authority

Key Principle

Where a purchaser of registered land expressly takes 'subject to' a prior contract and so undertakes to give effect to it, equity imposes a constructive trust preventing the purchaser from using the registration regime as an instrument of fraud.

Area of Law

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