page_title: Mascall v Mascall
hierarchical_section_title: Mascall v Mascall
caption_attribution_description: English: HM Land Registry name above the entrance way. Lincoln's Inn Fields.
context_page_description: Mascall v Mascall [1984] EWCA Civ 10 was an appeal on formalities in English law. The final, registration stage of a witnessed deed of transfer is not imperative in all circumstances, the court confirmed. Those circumstances include that there must be no detriment to a third party bona fide purchaser or mortgagee for value without notice; and there must be no fraud or abuse of trust as defined by law. It has wider resonance with the formalities of Trusts in English law.
context_section_description: Mascall v Mascall [1984] EWCA Civ 10 was an appeal on formalities in English law. The final, registration stage of a witnessed deed of transfer (of land) is not imperative in all circumstances, the court confirmed.  Those circumstances include that there must be no detriment to a third party bona fide purchaser or mortgagee for value without notice; and there must be no fraud or abuse of trust as defined by law.  It has wider resonance with the formalities of Trusts in English law.
caption: The deed's registration was objected to by the maker with the Land Registry (one of its stone-carved signs is pictured), as is needed to give it guaranteed effect against all third parties
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