Presbyterian Church of James Island v. Pendarvis

How courts have described this case

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• holding a party seeking to enforce a trust “may become barred by laches if he fails to proceed with reasonable diligence”
• holding the parties had constructive notice of the 1713 trust because it was recorded in the office of the Register of Deeds in 1732
• holding the party’s leasing the property and using the property in a manner not consistent with the trust was “tantamount to a repudiation of the trust”
• holding a party’s possession was adverse even when “due to the long lapse of time all parties, including the congregation and the ministers, had simply forgotten the trust”
• holding evidence of adverse possession included the church’s dealings with the property as if it owned the property in fee simple for a period of more than half a century, and the fact that the church’s title had not been questioned for approximately fifty years

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).