Henderson v. Hill’s Empirical Analysis

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1 state decisions

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1. “If the legal title and the beneficial interest combine in the same individual, the estate ... may be reached by execution, as in the case of resulting trusts. But this doctrine only applies in cases of merger or where the [beneficiary] has the whole beneficial interest, with the right to call for an immediate conveyance to him of the legal estate.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Atkins v. Marks