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Mortgage Enforcement: Issues for Discussion

IntroductionCommon issues expected to arise and confront legal counsels in mortgage enforcement practice, whether from the mortgagor’s perspective or from the lender’s perspective are under discussion...

Resulting and Constructive Trusts: Damages and Vesting Orders

Damages and Vesting Orders in Lieu of Constructive TrustThe Ontario Superior Court of Justice in McLean v. Danicic et al. discussed an application by a common...

Resulting and Constructive Trusts: A Case in Point

Constructive Trusts Without Unjust EnrichmentIn a majority judgment in Soulos v. Korkontzilas, the Supreme Court of Canada noted that a constructive trust arose in the absence...

Resulting and Constructive Trusts: All About Constructive Trusts

The Constructive TrustA constructive trust is formed by operation of law. It is considered an equitable remedy so as to prevent unjust enrichment, which is when...

Resulting and Constructive Trusts: Types Continued

Good WifeThe Ontario Superior Court of Justice decided in Citi Financial Ltd.v. Zaidi that the transfer of a residential property from a husband to his wife...

Resulting and Constructive Trusts: The Various Types

Resulting Trusts Arising from Mortgage FraudThe Alberta Court of Appeal observed in Luitenko v. McAleer that a resulting trust arose out of mortgage fraud. The respondent,...

Resulting and Constructive Trusts: What are They and What is Their Significance for Real Estate Lawyers?

Important developments have taken place in Canadian jurisprudence from the 1960s relating to interpretation and application of resulting and constructive trusts and more recently, the presumption...

The Lesson Learned from a Leasing Arrangement

In the previous installment, we reviewed a scenario when the lender can attorn rents and the tenant has to pay rent to the lender. Assuming that...

ASSIGNMENT OF LEASES, RENTS, NON DISTURBANCE AND ATTORNMENT: How To Differentiate Between Them

In this context, Madame Justice McKinley also dealt with the situation where a lease is absolutely assigned by the owner of land but the reversionary interest...

A Discussion about the Assignment of Leases

As the Goodyear case considered in-depth assignments of rents and leases to determine the impact on the doctrine of privity, it is necessary to discuss the...