Gifts to unincorporated associations: the significance of members being free to divide their assets

Wilde, D. (2022) Gifts to unincorporated associations: the significance of members being free to divide their assets. Private Client Business, 2. pp. 41-48. ISSN 0967-22BV

Abstract/Summary

This article suggests that when a donor gives a gift to an unincorporated association, the real significance of whether the association’s rules allow its assets to be divided between its members is in relation to whether the gift is charitable. Whereas the widely-cited – supposed – rule in Re Grant’s Will Trusts [1980] 1 W.L.R. 360 (Ch.), that a gift to a non-charitable unincorporated association is invalid unless the members are, under the association’s rules, able divide its assets between themselves, is a misstatement of the law, in conflict with stronger authority.

Item Type	Article
URI	https://reading-clone.eprints-hosting.org/id/eprint/104546
Refereed	Yes
Divisions	Arts, Humanities and Social Science > School of Law
Publisher	Sweet & Maxwell
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