Brown v Brown    Divorce – Variation of settlement – Immediate annuity to husband – Purchased after marriage
– Gift – Supreme Court of Judicature (Consolidation) Act 1925 (c 49), s 192.
A wife immediately after her marriage signed a proposal form for an immediate annuity to
her husband, and an insurance company thereupon entered into the deed, whereby the
company agreed both with the husband and with the wife, in consideration of a certain sum
paid by the wife, to pay to the husband a certain annuity. The marriage was dissolved and the
wife sought to vary the annuity deed, as being a post-nuptial settlement under the Supreme
Court of Judicature (Consolidation) Act 1925, s 192:—