Understanding Equity and Trusts Law (2001)

✍ Scribed by Alistair Hudson

• Year: 2001
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 222
• Edition: 1st
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Understanding Trusts Law is a textbook in miniature. One of the biggest problems students face in studying equity and trusts is in understanding the context in which these complex rules operate. Ironically, the only way to make sense of the law of trusts is to know it all before you begin! The aim of Understanding Equity & Trusts Law is to discuss all of the major issues covered by trusts law courses, written by someone who has a real enthusiasm for the subject. The book has a thesis: that trusts are part of equity's general remit to counter-balance the rigour of the common law. As such, trust law is concerned with policing the conscience of the trustee, whether in express trusts, resulting trusts or constructive trusts. These ideas are considered in the context of significant social questions such as the nature of commercial transactions, pensions and welfare provision, and rights in the family home. Each of these discussions highlights the principles on which the law operates.

✦ Table of Contents

BOOK COVER......Page 1
TITLE......Page 4
COPYRIGHT......Page 5
CONTENTS......Page 8
1 THE CONTEXT OF EQUITY......Page 20
2 THE NATURE OF THE TRUST......Page 32
3 THE SETTLOR......Page 44
4 THE BENEFICIARY......Page 64
5 THE TRUSTEE......Page 84
6 RESULTING TRUSTS......Page 98
7 CONSTRUCTIVE TRUSTS......Page 108
8 EQUITABLE ESTOPPEL......Page 124
9 TRUSTS OF LAND AND OF THE HOME......Page 136
10 BREACH OF TRUST......Page 158
11 COMMERCIAL USES OF TRUSTS......Page 180
12 WELFARE USES OF TRUSTS......Page 192
13 THE FUTURE FOR EQUITY......Page 204
Bibliography......Page 212
Index......Page 214