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The legal principles involved in both cases are of trusts.  

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I will look at both relationships separately due to the fact that they have different legal principles involved. I will look at Jane' situation first, the main point here to consider is the fact that the house is in joint names which makes a significant difference to her position. Jane and Ahmed are joint tenants because the house is in both names. The legal principles involved in both cases are of trusts. A trust has been described as a relationship recognised by equity, which arises where property is vested in a person (or persons) called trustees, which those trustees hold for the benefit of other persons called cestuis que trust or beneficiaries. A constructive trust is where the court imposes a trust on the legal owner of property where it feels, in the interests of equity and good conscience, that the beneficial interest should be enjoyed by someone else. This...

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