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Equity at Its Present
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The state soveregnty of this will presume thus in order for validity such atrocias vehicle will be displayedProperty which is intended to construct a trust fund must be segregated from all other property, in order for its identity to be sufficiently certain. If this is not succeeded then the result will be found to have no certainty of subject matter and in turn the trust will fail. As found in the case Re London Wine Co. where the creditors of a wine company sought to claim that their proprietary rights in a number of bottles of wine held in the company's cellar. They argued that their rights should be granted due to their contracts for the purchase of said wine. Oliver J held that the proprietary claims would only be successful if the bottles of wine were held in trust for the creditors. In order for this to occur, the bottles of wine must be identifiable from each other. However, as the wine had not been segregated from each other they were found to be unidentifiable and thus the claim failed as no trust was found. Here Oliver J was acknowledging that the property rights must be attached to some property in order for a trust to succeed and this approach is commonly referred to as ‘the orthodox approach'.
The principle that property must be separately identified before it can be held on a valid trust has been affirmed many times and no more conclusively then in the case Re Goldcorp Exchange Ltd. Goldcorp Exchange Ltd was a bullion exchange company that went into insolvency. At the time of the company's decline many purchasers of gold bullion had paid but had not taken delivery of the goods and thus were kept in the company's vault. The claimants, as a result of their contracts, were seeking to demonstrate that the bullion was held on trust for them. The claimants which had bullion that had been segregated from the bulk of the other bullion in the vault were found to have their property identifiable and these

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