Holland v German Property Administrator Subject to a life interest for B, trustees held part of a trust fund in trust for D for life with remainder to her children. D, an Englishwoman married to an Englishman, at all material times lived with her family in Germany. B died in 1917 and thereafter there was no communication between D and her relatives in England, some of whom were the trustees, until 1927, when the trustees were informed that D and her family had adopted German nationality during the War.