Full Description
Trusts & Equity continues to offer a comprehensive and user-friendly approach, providing a concise route through what can be a challenging area of the law. Drawing on years of experience, Gary Watt encourages students to actively engage with the subject and think critically about its central issues, outlining the key perspectives with clarity and rigour.
Contents
Part I1: Foundations2: Trusts in contextPart II: Creation and Recognition of Trusts3: Trusts created expressly4: Effective disposition of benefit: constitution of trusts5: Ineffective disposition of benefit: resulting trusts6: Formality, perpetuity, and illegality: trust creation and public policy I7: Charity: trust creation and public policy II8: Constructive trusts and informal trusts of landPart III: The Regulation of Trusts9: Flexibility of benefit10: The fiduciary duty11: Fulfilling and filling the office of trustee12: Trustee investment13: Breach of trust: the personal liability of trusteesPart IV: Trusts and Third Parties14: Tracing and recovering trust property15: The equitable personal liability of strangers to the trustPart V: Equity16: Equitable maxims, doctrines, and remedies
