settled property

for capital gains tax and inheritance tax purposes, settled property is property held on trust for persons in succession, or upon a contingency (e.g. the attainment by a beneficiary of a specified age) or where the income or capital is payable at the discretion of the trustees (or some other specified person). Not all property held in trust is settled property. For example, property held under a bare trust (that is, where the beneficiaries are absolutely entitled to the trust property as against the trustees and as a result must hold or transfer the property to the order of the beneficiaries). The definition employed by the tax legislation derives from (but is not identical to) that found in the Settled Land Act 1925.

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Compton explains, "For while the designers of the American constitutional order did not set out with the aim of inhibiting the moral development of future generations, they did envision a republic whose fundamental law would hinder efforts to interfere with settled property rights or restrict the flow of goods in interstate markets." But that was exactly what anti-liquor and anti-lottery forces wanted--for the law to declare that there could be no legitimate property rights in alcoholic beverages or lottery tickets and to block their flow in markets altogether.

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But in the more settled property market of today, if a prospective buyer wanted to know more about the antecedents of a property he has eyes on, what does he do?

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A 50 per cent reduction in value applies to: quoted voting shares in or securities of a company controlled by the transferor; any land or buildings, machinery or plant owned by the transferor and used mainly for business by a company controlled by the transferor or by a partnership; or certain settled property.

Know your law

Although state courts, as well as the attorneys who argued before them, frequently articulated the view that stare decisis mandated adherence to rules that had generated settled property interests, such rhetoric seems inconsistent with other cases in which courts changed property rules, whether for utilitarian or instrumentalist reasons, to rationalize the common law, or in response to statutory changes.

The quest is to explain the types of cases in which judges seemed to be constrained by stare decisis in the interest of protecting settled property expectations, recognizing that in other cases they did not.

The modern debate about judicial takings, which can be related to the quest for an original understanding of stare decisis, asks whether state courts can effectively police their own boundaries with respect to the settled property expectations that legislatures are constitutionally bound to respect.

I argue that many state judges in the formative era appreciated at least the potential for judicial takings, and the evidence comes from the early development of the doctrine of stare decisis and its application to prior court decisions that the judges believed had settled property expectations.

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Once the place of sabotage and defiant disorders against a centripetal commonwealth, Wroth's estate is now the landscape of Jonson's idyll; a former location of confrontation has become an emblem of domestic order, security, and settled property. The "serpent river," the particular geographical feature through which the contending parties argued for or against integration with London, has become a poetic symbol that transmutes a scene of local struggle to one of tranquil local possession through a purchase from the crown and cooperation with its administrative arm, the Privy Council.

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