 The rules of law are presumed to be known by all men ; and they must govern themselves accordingly. The law holds that the insertion of the word "trustee" after the name of a stockholder does indicate and give notice of a trust. No one is at liberty to...  A Treatise on the Law of Trusts and Trustees - Page 455by Jairus Ware Perry - 1882Full view - About this book
 | 1869 - 820 pages
...title immediately and solely from the stockholder of record. The point is not made by the complainant that a transfer in blank is out of the usual course...word " trustee" alone has any significance and does amount to notice of the existence of a trust. But this has been heretofore decided, and is no longer... | |
 | Isaac Grant Thompson - 1871 - 670 pages
...rales of law are presumed to be known by all men, and they must govern themselves Shaw v. Spencer. accordingly. The law holds that the insertion of the...word "trustee," alone, has any significance, and does amount to notice of the existence of a trust. But this has been heretofore decided, and is no longer... | |
 | William Colebrooke - 1883 - 734 pages
...the use or purpose for which the transfer was made. As to the first, " the law holds (say the court) that the insertion of the word ' trustee ' after the...word ' trustee ' alone has any significance, and does amount to notice of a trust, and it has been decided that it does."' As to the second offer, the court... | |
 | 1912 - 1164 pages
...sufficient to put the holders upon inquiry, and thereby affect them with notice of the trust, said: "The rules of law are presumed to be known by all...word 'trustee' alone has any significance and does amount to notice of the existence of a trust. But this has heretofore been decided, and is no longer... | |
 | James Barr Ames - 1893 - 548 pages
...of the word ' trustee ' ifter the name of a stockholder does indicate and give notice of a trust so one is at liberty to disregard such notice and to abstain from inI quiry, for the reason that a trust is frequently simulated or pretended when it really does not... | |
 | Abraham Clark Freeman - 1902 - 1074 pages
...such notice. In Shaw v. Spencer, 100 Mass. 382, 97 Am. Dec. 107, 1 Am. Rep. 115, the court said that "the law holds that the insertion of the word 'trustee'...simulated or pretended when It really does not exist." Hence, It was held that a pledgee of stock, standing In the name of one as trustee. Is by the mere... | |
 | Austin Wakeman Scott - 1919 - 858 pages
...holders upon inquiry, and thereby affect them with notice of the trust. The Court says on page 393, "The rules of law are presumed to be known by all...question, whether the word ' trustee ' alone has any signif1cance and does amount to notice of the existence of a trust. But this has heretofore been decided,... | |
 | Austin Wakeman Scott - 1921 - 44 pages
...of no effect. In the leading case of Shaw v. Spencer, 100 Mass. 382, 393 (1868), Foster, J., said: "The fact that it is common to issue certificates...word 'trustee' alone has any significance and does amount to notice of the existence of a trust."] 14 Scott v. Tyler, 2 Dick. 712, 724 (1788) (executor);... | |
 | 1892 - 556 pages
...Sweeny v. Bank of Montreal, 12 Canada Sup. Ct. case. The rules of law are • presumed to be known to all men ; and they must govern themselves accordingly....word 'trustee ' alone has any significance and does amount to notice of the existence of a trust. But this has been heretofore decided, and is no longer... | |
 | 1895 - 568 pages
...that it is an erroneous assumption that the word "trustee" alone has no meaning or legal effect ; that the law holds that the insertion of the word "trustee"...notice and to abstain from inquiry for the reason that the trust is frequently simulated or pretended when it does not really exist. As illustrating the point... | |
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