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Malayan Credit Ltd v Jack Chia-MPH Ltd [1986] AC 549

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United Kingdom
By Oxbridge Law Team
Lord Brightman

  • Defendant was a tenant of a property for his business. He agreed that Plaintiff could become his joint tenant and that the lease be granted to them both. They agreed what space each would occupy and what proportions of rent each would pay.

  • Privy council held that it could presume joint tenants at law to be in fact tenants in common where each tenant used the property for separate business purposes (other examples where it has done so previously include a purchase in unequal shares, a loan on mortgage advanced unequally or partnership property). 

Lord Brightman

It is improbable that they would intend to hold as joint tenants in equity.

  • For example, if Defendant died he would not want his share in the property to revert to the other business.

  • Factors indicating tenancy in common:

    1. Separate commercial interests of Plaintiff and Defendant;

    2. Plaintiff and Defendant had kept their space allocation and rent payments separate and

    3. The rent, stamp duty etc. was payable in unequal shares by Plaintiff and Defendant. 

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