Eves v Eves

Eves v Eves
Court	Court of Appeal
Citation(s)	[1975] EWCA Civ 3, [1975] 1 WLR 1338
Keywords
trust, family home

Eves v Eves [1975] EWCA Civ 3 is an English land law case, concerning constructive trusts of the family home.

Facts

Mr Eves bought a home and put the legal title in his name. His girlfriend, Janet Eves, lived there and asked why she had not been made an owner. He said it was because she was not yet 21. Janet decorated and broke up a concrete patio with a 14 lb sledgehammer.

Judgment

Lord Denning MR held Mr Eves held the house on constructive trust and Janet had a one quarter share. Doing the improvement work manifested a common intention to share in the home's equity.

Browne LJ and Brightman J concurred.

Resulting trusts cases

Law of Property Act 1925 ss 53(1)(c) and 60(3)

Fowkes v Pascoe (1875) LR 10 Ch App 343

Tinsley v Milligan [1993] UKHL 3

Tribe v Tribe [1995] EWCA Civ 20

Vandervell v Inland Revenue Commissioners [1966] UKHL 3

Re Vandervell’s Trustees Ltd (No 2) [1974] EWCA Civ 7

Westdeutsche Landesbank Girozentrale v Islington LBC [1996] UKHL 12

Air Jamaica Ltd v Charlton [1999] UKHL 20

Barclays Bank Ltd v Quistclose Invest Ltd [1968] UKHL 4

Twinsectra Ltd v Yardley [2002] UKHL 12

see Resulting trusts in English law

Constructive trusts cases

Beatty v Guggenheim Exploration Co (1919) 225 NY 380

Hussey v Palmer [1972] EWCA Civ 1

Lake v Bayliss [1974] 1 WLR 1073

Banner Homes plc v Luff Dev Ltd [2000] EWCA Civ 3016

Pennington v Waine [2002] EWCA Civ 227

Bannister v Bannister [1948] 2 All ER 133

Binions v Evans [1972] EWCA Civ 6

T Choithram International SA v Pagarani [2000] UKPC 46

Blackwell v Blackwell [1929] UKHL 1

Fry v Densham-Smith [2010] EWCA Civ 1410

Lloyds Bank plc v Rosset [1991] UKHL 14

Stack v Dowden [2007] UKHL 17

Jones v Kernott [2011] UKSC 53

Reading v Attorney-General [1951] UKHL 1

Boardman v Phipps [1966] UKHL 2

Attorney General for Hong Kong v Reid [1994] UKPC 36

Sinclair Ltd v Versailles Ltd [2011] EWCA Civ 347

FHR LLP v Cedar Capital LLC [2014] UKSC 45

Chase Manhattan Bank v Israel-British Bank Ltd [1981] Ch 105

Westdeutsche Landesbank v Islington LBC [1996] UKHL 12

see Constructive trusts in English law

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