Trusts and Equity (10ed)
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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.
Key points:
- A stimulating and accessible introduction to the subject of trusts and equity by an experienced teacher, writer, and researcher
- Places the law of trusts within a unique conceptual framework of four central perspectives, encouraging students to think critically around the key issues and debates
- Interesting scenarios and examples from sources as varied as literature, film, and history help students to relate and contextualize a difficult subject
- Accompanying online resources feature author videos, scenario and essay questions with answer guidance, and weblinks to further reading
- Also available as an e-book with functionality, navigation features, and links that offer extra learning support
New to this Edition:
A wide range of new law and legal scholarship, which includes discussions of New Zealand's Te Awa Tupua (Whanganui River Claims Settlement) Act 2017, the status of cryptocurrency as trust property, virtual witnessing of wills in the period of the COVID-19 pandemic, and more.
- Contents:
- Part I: Introduction to Trusts and Equity
- 1:Foundations
- 2:Trusts in context
- Part II: Creation and Recognition of Trusts
- 3:Trusts created expressly
- 4:Effective disposition of benefit: constitution of trusts
- 5:Ineffective disposition of benefit: resulting trusts
- 6:Formality, perpetuity, and illegality: trust creation and public policy I
- 7:Charity: trust creation and public policy II
- 8:Constructive trusts and informal trusts of land
- Part III: The Regulation of Trusts
- 9:Flexibility of benefit
- 10:The fiduciary duty
- 11:Fulfilling and filling the office of trustee
- 12:Trustee investment
- 13:Breach of trust: the personal liability of trustees
- Part IV: Trusts and Third Parties
- 14:Tracing and recovering trust property
- 15:The equitable personal liability of strangers to the trust
- Part V: Equity
- 16:Equitable maxims, doctrines, and remedies
| Publisher: | Oxford University Press |
| ISBN: | 9780192869630 |
| Author(s) | Watt, G |
| Edition | 10 |
| Format | Pb |
| Publication Date | 30/04/2023 |