Description
Alastair Hudson’s Equity and Trusts is an ideal textbook for undergraduate courses on the law of trusts and equitable remedies. It provides a clear, current and comprehensive account of the subject. The author’s enthusiasm and expertise shine through, helping to bring to life an area of the law which students often fi nd challenging.
The tenth edition of Equity and Trusts remains the most comprehensive and up-to-date coverage of the law of Equity and Trusts, while still a lively and thoughtful account of the issues raised by it. This book has been cited as being authoritative in the courts of numerous countries.
The tenth edition is supported by the author’s website at www.alastairhudson.com with brand new resources including:
• short podcasts discussing and clarifying key topics from within the book, which cover an entire course;
• complete lecture recordings made specifi cally to accompany this book;
• video documentaries bringing to life selected key topics;
• a host of other online materials and study guides new for 2021.
Table of Contents
Part 1: Fundamentals of Equity and Trusts
1. Introduction
2. Understanding the Trust
Part 2: Express Trusts
3. Certainty in the Creation of Express Trusts
4. The Rights of Beneficiaries and the Beneficiary Principle
5. Formalities in the Creation of Express Trusts
6. Secret Trusts
7. Essay – The Nature of Express Trusts
Part 3: Administration of Trusts
8. The Duties of Trustees
9. The Investment of Trusts
10. The Powers of Trustees and the Variation of Trusts
Part 4: Trusts Implied by Law
11. Resulting Trusts
12. Constructive Trusts
13. Equitable Estoppel
14. Essay – Thinking About the Law on Fiduciaries
Part 5: Equity, Trusts and the Home
15. Trusts of Homes
16. Trusts of Land
17. Essay – Family Law, Human Rights Law and Equity
Part 6: Breach of Trust and Related Equitable Claims
18. Breach of Trust
19. Tracing
20. The Liability of Strangers to Account for Involvement in a Breach of Trust
Part 7: Commercial Uses of Trusts
21. Commerce, International Trusts Law and Dealing with Property
22. Quistclose Trusts
23. Mortgages, Charges and Taking Security
Part 8: Welfare Uses of Trusts
24. Occupational Pension Funds
25. Charities
Part 9: Equitable Remedies
26. Specific Performance
27. Injunctions and Confidences
28. Rescission and Rectification
29. Doctrine of Notice and Undue Influence
30. Miscellaneous Equitable Remedies
Part 10: Theoretical Questions Relating to Equity and Trusts
31. The Nature of Property in Equity and Trusts
32. Equity, Chaos and Social Complexity
