Goyal v Chandra & Anor [2006] NSWSC 239

Reported Decision : 68 NSWLR 313

New South Wales Supreme Court

CITATION : Goyal v Chandra & Anor [2006] NSWSC 239

HEARING DATE(S) : 1 March 2006, 3 March 2006

JUDGMENT DATE : 3 March 2006

JUDGMENT OF : Brereton J

EX TEMPORE JUDGMENT DATE : 03/03/2006

DECISION : Paragraphs [50] - [52]

CATCHWORDS : CONVEYANCING – Land Titles under Torrens System – Joint Tenancy and Tenancy-in-Common – Severance – Agreement not to sever joint tenancy – whether void as restraint on alienation – effect on transfer of one joint tenant's interest to self as tenant-in-common – held that such transfer does not sever equitable joint tenancy where there is obligation not to sever. FAMILY LAW – Family Law Act 1975 – Property – interlocutory application to restrain severance of joint tenancy – inutility of injunction given ability of survivor and estate to continue adjustive property proceedings after death under s 79(8).

Conveyancing Act 1919 (NSW), s 66G LEGISLATION CITED : Family Law Act 1975 (Cth), ss 4(1), 75(2), 78, 79 Property Law Act 1974 (QLD), s 38 Real Property Act 1900 (NSW), ss 97(1), 12A(3)

Anderson v O'Donnell (2000) 10 BPR 18,501; [2000] NSWSC 895 Baumgartner v Baumgartner (1987) 164 CLR 137 Birmingham v Renfrew (1937) 57 CLR 666 Costello v McGufficke (1987 NSWSC Cohen J unreported, BC8701270) Dillwyn v Llewelyn (1862) 4 De GF & J 517; [1861-73] All ER Rep 384; (1862) 45 ER 1285 Freed v Taffel [1984] 2 NSWLR 322 Ngatoa v Ford (1990) 19 NSWLR 72 Olliver v Olliver (1978) 4 Fam LR 360 CASES CITED : Parry v Sullivan (1979) 9 RFL (2d) 349 Ramsden v Dyson (1866) LR1HL 129; (1866) 12 Jur NS 506; (1866) 14 WR 926 Re Buchanan-Wollaston's Conveyance; Curtis v Buchanan-Wollaston [1939] Ch 738 Re Permanent Trustee Nominees (Canberra) Ltd v Coral Sea Resort Motel Pty Ltd [1989] 1 QdR 314 Schaefer v Schuhmann [1972] AC 572 Scott v Briggs (1991) 14 Fam LR 661 Williams v Hensman (1861) 70 ER 862 Williams v Legg (1993) 29 NSWLR 687 Young v Lalic [2006] NSWSC 18