Victoria Sweeting considers the unusual case of Howard v Howard-Lawson Name and arms clauses can be found in precedent books dating as far back as 1787 and it seems that no general objection to them was raised until 1945. In October 2011 the case of Howard v Howard-Lawson [2011] came before the Court of Appeal. …
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Wills & Trusts Law Reports | May 2012 #119Philip John Canning Howard (testator), who died on 22 April 1934, was entitled to landed estates but his only child was a daughter who married and had issue with Sir Henry Joseph Lawson Bt. The testator was concerned to ensure the continuance of the association of his family name and arms with his landed estates, and by his will, he settled them on trusts that were designed to prevent his descendants from disentailing them for as long a period as possible, but made the enjoyment of possession by each successive remainderman conditional on adopting the name and arms of Howard. Each tenant...
