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Presumed intention resulting trust
Last modified: Thu Feb 23 16:37:37 2006
A presumed intention resulting trust (PIRT, also known as a `presumed resulting trust')
is a form of ResultingTrust that
arises when a person acts in a way that is consistent with his wish to provide
money or property in a way that benefits himself, but the legal consequence of
his action is to divest himself of the legal title altogether. The textbook
example of a PIRT is the PurchaseMoneyResultingTrust. Such a trust arises when one
person provides the funds to purchase some land or property in the name of
somebody else, and there is no evidence to rebut the presumption that the provider
intended to benefit himself. If, for example, person A provides money to
person B to buy property, then B will be presumed to hold that property on
trust for A (DyerVDyer1788), lacking evidence of a contrary intention on the part
of A.
Unlike an AutomaticResultingTrust (ART), that a PIRT exists is an assumption that can
be rebutted by evidence that the donor intended to dispose of his interest
in the money or property. This evidence can take various forms, for example:
evidence that the donor intended to make a gift (particular in the context of
family relationships -- see PresumptionOfAdvancement);
evidence that the donor intended to advance a loan to the recipient.
Although PIRTs and ARTs have traditionally both been viewed as resulting trusts, in
that the trust arises by action of law to benefit the settlor, these sub-types
of resulting trust actually have very little in common. See
TheoreticalBasisForResultingTrusts for a discussion of this point.
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