What is the test for imposing a trust?
British Columbia, Canada
The following excerpt is from Harraway v. Harraway, 2009 BCCA 561 (CanLII):
The trial judge then looked at whether a trust could be imposed. He first examined the law of resulting trusts. He then examined the law of constructive trusts, setting out two passages from Peter v. Beblow, 1993 CanLII 126 (SCC), [1993] 1 S.C.R. 980.
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