Seizure of Real Property

1842752 Ontario Inc. v. Fortress Wismer 3-2011 Ltd., 2020 ONCA 250 (CanLII)

[1] The appellant, 1842752 Ontario Inc., has a judgment and writ of seizure and sale against Fortress Wismer 3-2011 Ltd. (“Fortress Wismer”). Fortress Wismer owns an undivided 35 percent beneficial interest in lands registered under the Land Titles Act, R.S.O. 1990, c. L.5. The registered owner of the lands holds the land for Fortress Wismer and two other corporations under an unregistered trust agreement. Under s. 62(1) of the Land Titles Act[1], notice of an express, implied or constructive trust “shall not be entered on the register or received for registration.”

[2] The appellant applied for declarations that the writ of seizure and sale is binding on and enforceable against the registered owner of the lands and gives the appellant priority over a previously registered charge to the extent of advances under it made following actual notice of the writ.

[3] The application judge dismissed the appellant’s application. For the reasons that follow, we dismiss the appellant’s appeal.