a thesis - Institute of Advanced Legal Studies

26 EXPKESS TRUSTS.
Part IL—EXPRESS TEUSTS,
CHAPTER V.—CREATION OF EXPRESS TRUSTS OF LAND.
(1) ALL declarations or creations of trusts or confidences
of any lands, tenements, or hereditaments shall be manifested
and proved by some writing signed by the party
who is by law enabled to declare such trust, or by his
last will in writing, or else they shall be utterly void and
of none effect. (Statute of Frauds, s. 7.)
(2) Provided always that where any conveyance
shall be made of any lands or tenements by which a
trust or confidence shall or may arise or result by the
implication or construction of law, or be transferred or
extinguished by an act or operation of law, then and in
every such case such trust or confidence shall be of the
like force and effect as the same would have been if this
statute had not been made, anything herein contained to
the contrary notwithstanding. (Ibid. s. 8.)
(3) The provisions of this act do not apply where
they would operate to effectuate a fraud.
(4) Land in this act includes freehold land of any
tenure, copyhold and leasehold land.
" Trusts," says Mr. Lewin (Trusts, 10th ed. 51), " like uses, are
of their own nature averrable" which means that they may be
proved by word of mouth without any writing.
And this was the law for all trusts until the year 1677, when
the Statute of Frauds was passed, which made it necessary for