BIM60090 - Land: Trading transactions: Land acquired by inheritance or gift



Where land is acquired by inheritance or gift, liability will not ordinarily arise under Case I in respect of its subsequent sale (see Hudson's Bay Company v Stevens [1909] TC424 and Williams v Davies [1945] 26TC371).

A possible exception to this general rule is where there is, following acquisition, a change of intention, i.e. material development takes place that constitutes a supervening trade (see BIM60060).