| Description | | - Clear and up-to-date coverage of the law of trusts, providing the essential content of an undergraduate degree course in trusts
- Includes detailed coverage of the nature and history of equity and equitable remedies
- The student's learning experience is enhanced by pedagogical features, including self-assessment and research exercises, enabling the student to work interactively with the text
- The text highlights the relationship between trusts, property, contract and restitution to enable students to map out conceptual connections between competing ideas
- The text has a real focus on modern cases in the commercial sphere enabling students to make connections between the subject and the practical and social application of the law
- Chapters begin with outline objectives and an introductory paragraph, allowing students to place each section of the course in context and to appreciate the aims of each chapter
- Further coverage of key cases has been introduced into the text to enable the student to gain a complete understanding of the area by referring to the text alone and chapter content has been streamlined to fit even more closely with standard courses
- Online Resource Centre:
The companion web site has been thoroughly re-vamped to provide focussed, user-friendly material: guide answers to end-of-chapter assessment exercises, updates and web links to related sites
| New to this edition- Incorporates all major developments since the last edition, including the Charities Bill 2004, the Civil Partnerships Bill 2004, Inland Revenue proposals for the reform of trusts taxation (2004) and Law Commission proposals on the apportionment of capital and income (2004) and the forfeiture rule (2003)
- Includes coverage of around thirty new cases on subjects as diverse as mortgage fraud, money laundering, tax avoidance, defrauding trade creditors, solicitors acting in conflict of interest and disputes over domestic property
- Further coverage of key cases has been introduced into the text to enable the student to gain a complete understanding of the area by referring to the text alone and chapter content has been streamlined to fit even more closely with standard courses
- Chapter summaries and outline objectives aid revision and understanding, a glossary outlines and explains key terminology, further reading lists encourage and assist in further research, and a walk-through Preface ensures the book and accompanying website are used to their full potential. More diagrams have also been included to assist students in understanding difficult topics
- Online Resource Centre:
The companion web site has been thoroughly re-vamped to provide further details of key cases discussed in the book, questions and guide answers, updates and web links to related sites
| Trusts Textbook
is an accessible text that sets out in clear and comprehensive terms the essential content of undergraduate degree courses in trusts. The nature and history of equity is also considered in detail and equitable remedies are discussed throughout the context of trusts law. The text elucidates the relationship between trusts, property, contract and restitution to enable students
to map out conceptual connections between competing legal ideas. There is also a focus on modern cases in the commercial sphere to reflect the constantly changing and socially-significant role of trusts and equity. A number of features are used throughout the book to enable the students to work interactively with the text, allowing them to test their knowledge and check their understanding of the
law. These features include self-assesssment questions and exercises, chapter summaries, diagrams and guides to further reading. A glossary of key terms is also included.
This new edition has been fully revised and updated to incorporate all major developments since the last edition, including the Charities Bill 2004, the Civil Partnerships Bill 2004, Inland Revenue proposals for the reform of
trusts taxation (2004) and Law Commission proposals on the apportionment of capital and income (2004) and the forfeiture rule (2003). Also new to this edition are around thirty new cases on subjects as diverse as mortgage fraud, money laundering, tax avoidance, defrauding trade creditors, solicitors acting in conflict of interest and disputes over domestic property.
Online Resource
Centre
The text is supported by a companion web site containing further details of major cases discussed in the text, questions and guide answers, updates and web links to related sites.
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Readership: Undergraduates studying courses in equity and trusts.
| Contents |
1.
Introduction to Equity and Trusts
2.
Understanding Trusts
3.
Capacity and Formality Requirements
4.
Certainty Requirements
5.
The Constitution of Trusts
6.
Public Policy Limitations on the Formation of Trusts
7.
Purpose Trusts
8.
Charitable Trusts
9.
Variation of Trusts
10.
Trustee Appointments
11.
The Nature of Trusteeship
12.
Trustees' Duties
13.
Maintenance and Advancement
14.
Investment
15.
Breach of Trust: Defences and Relief
16.
Resulting and Constructive Trusts
17.
Informal Trusts of Land
18.
Tracing
19.
The Equitable Liability of Strangers to the Trust
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| Authors, editors,
and contributors |
Gary Watt, Reader in Law, University of Warwick
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