What is the test for establishing that if one person buys property but conveys it into another person's name or into his name, that other person becomes resulting trustee for the purchaser?

Saskatchewan, Canada


The following excerpt is from Anderson v. Hervieux, 1984 CanLII 2636 (SK QB):

The principle has long been established that if one person buys property but conveys it into another’s name or into his name in the name of another, that the other person becomes resulting trustee for the purchaser: see Dyer v. Dyer (1788), 2 Cox 92; 30 E.R. 42.

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