Full Description
The Principles of Equity & Trusts offers a refreshing, student-focused approach to a dynamic area of law. In the fifth edition of his best-selling textbook, Professor Graham Virgo brings his expertise as a teacher to deliver an engaging, contextual account of the essential principles of trusts and their equitable remedies.
Virgo states the law in plain terms before building on an area of debate and encouraging students to fully engage with the inherent issues within the subject. Concise and authoritative analysis enables students to grasp the principles of trusts, develop the confidence to engage fully with the subject area, and excel in their studies.
Virgo approaches the topics with unparalleled clarity and provides the academic rigour for which this text has come to be relied upon. Combining expert knowledge and comprehensive coverage, this is the ideal companion to a course in trusts.
Digital formats and resources
The fifth edition is available for students and institutions to purchase in a variety of formats, and is supported by online resources.
· The e-book offers a mobile experience and convenient access along with self-assessment activities, multi-media content including author videos, web links to key cases, functionality tools, navigation features and links that offer extra learning support: http://www.oxfordtextbooks.co.uk/ebooks
· The online resources includes self-test and scenario questions with feedback, videos from the author, and web links to key cases
Contents
Part I: Equity
1:: An introduction to equity
2:: The characteristics of equity
3:: An introduction to the trust
Part II: The Express Trust
4:: The requirements of an express trust
5:: Formalities
Part III: Trusts for Purposes
6:: Charitable trusts
7:: Non-charitable purpose trusts
Part IV: Implied Trusts
8:: Resulting trusts
9:: Constructive trusts
10:: Informal arrangements relating to property
Part V: Beneficiaries
11:: Beneficiaries
Part VI: Trustees and Their Representatives
12:: Trustees
13:: The administration of trusts
14:: Dispositive powers and duties
15:: Fiduciary duties
Part VII: Variation of Trusts
16:: The variation of trusts
Part VIII: Breach of Trust and Fiduciary Duty
17:: Liability for breach of trust and fiduciary duty
18:: Personal claims and remedies
19:: Proprietary claims and remedies
20:: Personal liability of third parties
