In Richards v Delbridge (1874) LR 18 Eq 11, a grandfather endorsed on his lease a memorandum saying ‘This deed and all thereto belonging I give to Edward [a minor] from this time forth.’ The grandfather later died. It was held that the lease had not been legally assigned. (Endorsement on the deed is ineffective; a separate deed should have been used.) Neither could the attempted transfer be construed as a declaration of trust, because he had not intended to declare a trust but to make an outright gift.