Twyne's Case

Twyne's case
CourtStar Chamber
Citation(1601) 3 Coke 80; (1601) 76 ER 809
Keywords
Fraudulent conveyance

Twyne's case (1601) 76 ER 809; 3 Co. Rep. 80b is a UK insolvency law case, concerning a fraudulent conveyance. Representative of earlier English law, it was considered that any transfer of property from a debtor to a creditor, after which the debtor remained in possession of that property, was a fraudulent act intended to defraud creditors.[1] At the time, the law only recognised the mortgage and the pledge. A charge on property in possession of another was not allowed.[2]

  1. ^ Warren; Westbrook; Porter; Pottow (2014). The Law of Debtors and Creditors: Text, Cases, and Problems (Seventh ed.). Wolters Kluwer Law & Business. pp. 542–543. ISBN 978-1-4548-2238-7.
  2. ^ Jay D. Adkisson. "Two Ancient English Statutes and a Dispute Over Modern Voidable Transactions Law". Forbes. Retrieved 10 July 2017.