Trusts law is one of the most complicated areas of law to study. Concise and clear, this book offers a readily accessible account of this challenging subject. It identifies and discusses many analytical perspectives on trusts leading to greater understanding. The third edition of the book is fully revised to address recent developments in the law.
Trusts law is one of the most complicated areas of law to study. Concise and clear, this book offers a readily accessible account of this challenging subject. It identifies and discusses many analytical perspectives on trusts leading to greater understanding. The third edition of the book is fully revised to address recent developments in the law.
Simon Gardner has been a member of the Oxford University Law Faculty and a Fellow of Lincoln College since 1978, working and teaching primarily in the areas of Land Law, Trusts, and Criminal Law. He is the author of some fifty articles, principally in these areas, and of books in Land Law and Trusts. In recent years he been made an Academic Member of the Chancery Bar Association, and was given a Teaching Excellence Award by Oxford University.
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1: The nature of trusts 2: Policies shaping the express trust concept 3: Finding settlors' intentions 4: Promises to make trusts 5: Formalities 6: Charitable trusts 7: Stewardship 8: Fixed trusts 9: Dispositive discretions 10: Modification 11: Securing performance 12: Trustees' duties and beneficiaries' rights 13: Breach of trust and remedies 14: Liabilities of strangers 15: Constructive trusts 1 16: Resulting trusts 17: Constructive trusts 2 18: Constructive trusts 3