parzival wrote: ↑Mon Aug 19, 2019 3:26 am
morrand wrote: ↑Mon Aug 12, 2019 11:49 pm
Also, Professor Irvine summarizes the facts of the
Chupryk case as follows (at 50): "On the death of his wife, Michael Chupryk found himself (or so the Court determined) the life tenant of a dilapidated and deteriorating property; he was also the holder of a one-third share in the remainder interest, the other two-thirds being vested in Sophie Haykowski, Mr. Chupryk’s god-daughter and relative by marriage." It is hard to square this summary with your assertion that
parzival wrote:you so agree, that all citizens are life tenants........
for if all citizens are life tenants, for what reason was it necessary for Mr Chupryk's status as a life tenant to have been determined by the court? For what reason, further, was it necessary for this esteemed professor of law to state that fact?
once again dodged the point, that is SETTLED LAND ACT APPLIES AND IS PART OF THE COMMON LAW....
[...]
UNLESS THIS COMMENTARY ON CANLII IS WRONG!!!
the forgotten statute
Hardly dodged the point.
You made this article central to your argument, and you continue to do so. I found it, read it, and it does not support your argument at all.
Prof Irvine admits up front that the Manitoba Court of Appeals has ruled against the point which he argues, citing (and this is a copy-and-paste job)
Chupryk v Haykowski (1980), 110 DLR (3d) 108, 3 Man R (2d) 216, [1980] 4 WWR 534; leave to appeal further to MBCA denied, (1980) 110 DLR (3d) 108n [Freedman CJM]; leave to appeal to SCC granted (1980) 33 NR 622 (SCC). He also goes on to explain that, in effect, very little of this actually matters:
Prof Irvine wrote:My modest aim in this first essay is principally to set straight a historical flaw in Manitoba’s historical record. In doing so, I am aware that I am addressing legal issues which are on the point of fading into history and near-oblivion, as newer methods are adopted for making provision for the successive enjoyment of family real estate. The old “strict settlement”, if not yet dead, is now a rare survival, and the settled estate and settled land legislation of the nineteenth century is of vestigial importance compared with the trust-based arrangements that have supplanted them, and which have attracted their own patina of statutory mechanisms. But the very obsolescence of old-fashioned strict settlements means that few if any opportunities will present themselves for the judiciary to correct misconceptions which it has created, and that is particularly so in Manitoba, where the passing of the Perpetuities and Accumulations Act in 1982 makes it impossible to imagine any future circumstance in which successive estates may exist otherwise than under the aegis of a trust. The short note which follows, then, is designed to show how the Manitoba Court of Appeal, in the case of Chupryk v Haykowski, misrepresented the Manitoba law of settled estates by ignoring or suppressing the existence of the English Settled Estates Act of 1856 as part of this province’s law; and how, in so doing, they obliquely sought to justify a unique, and I believe a misguided interpretation of another provincial statute – the partition-and-sale provisions of the Law of Property Act – to achieve the Court’s preferred outcome in the Chupryk case.
Irvine at 50 (my emphasis).
So what Professor Irvine is saying boils down to:
- The Manitoba courts said in Chupryk that the Settled Estates Act of 1856 isn't a part of Manitoba law.
- I think the court made a mistake, and here's why.
- This would need to be corrected by the judiciary (the courts), but they aren't likely to do so now because settlements (life tenancies and the like) are practically obsolete.
- It probably doesn't matter anyway because settlements are obsolete.
This is important. First, Professor Irvine is not saying what the law is. He is upfront in that: he is discussing what he thinks the law should be. He might be right, but his interpretation was not adopted in
Chupryk, so
it does not matter. Professor Irvine knows this, and admits it doesn't matter much, except for historical accuracy. There may someday be a reason for the courts to re-examine
Chupryk and decide that Prof Irvine is correct, but they have not done so (or hadn't by 2011, anyway).
Second, Prof Irvine is saying
it doesn't matter now anyway because the law has changed, so settlements in Manitoba (like life tenancies and remainder interests) have to be done through trusts now, and trusts have their own rules (their "patina of statutory mechanisms," as he puts it) to which none of this applies at all.
Professor Irvine, in other words—whom, I will remind you, you brought into the discussion—undercuts your argument in the very article you cite for support.
That's to the extent that life tenancies have anything at all to do with...well, anything else. To repeat a point that's been made elsewhere: nobody is debating with you that life tenancies were a thing at common law, and probably still are.
parzival wrote:does the settled land act 1925 apply in the provinces of canada?
The Manitoba Court of Appeals says it doesn't (indeed, this is the whole premise of Prof Irvine's article), or at least not in Manitoba. On the other hand, the
Amusements Act (CCSM c 870), the
Energy Savings Act (CCSM c E115.5), and the
Deer Lodge Curling Club Limited Incorporation Act (RSM 1990, c 45) all probably do apply in Manitoba, unless the curling club has since folded. But none of these appear to have any more relation to "confused capacities and agreements" than life tenancies or the
Settled Land Act (1925).
Hence my previous question, which you have not answered and which is on point with some of the other questions you have been asked in this thread, all of which questions you've ignored in favor of proving a point nobody is really debating. To wit:
morrand wrote:[If] all citizens are life tenants, for what reason was it necessary for Mr Chupryk's status as a life tenant to have been determined by the court? For what reason, further, was it necessary for this esteemed professor of law to state that fact?
Well?