A Student's Guide to Equity and Trusts
About this book
This engaging introduction explores the key principles of equity and trusts law and offers students effective learning features. By covering the essentials of each topic, it ensures students have the foundations for success. The law is made relevant to current practice through chapters that define and explain key legal principles, and examples and exercises set the law in context and make the subject interesting and dynamic by showing how these rules apply in real life. Key facts sections and summaries help students remember the crucial points of each topic and practical exercises offer students the opportunity to apply the law. This updated edition offers added features, in particular comprehensive lists of further reading and also a glossary of key terms. Every chapter has been updated and new case law has been added. Exploring clearly and concisely the subject's key principles, this should be every equity student's first port of call.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Half-title page
- Title page
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Preface
- Glossary of Common Terms Used in Equity and Trusts
- Table of Cases
- Table of Statutes
- 1 Historical Introduction
- 2 Equitable Remedies
- 3 The Classification of Trusts and Powers
- 4 The Three Certainties
- 5 Constitution of Trusts
- 6 Formalities for the Creation of a Trust
- 7 Private Purpose Trusts
- 8 Unincorporated Associations
- 9 Resulting Trusts
- 10 Constructive Trusts
- 11 Trusts of the Family Home
- 12 Secret Trusts and Mutual Wills
- 13 Charities: The Charities Act and the Rules of Cy Près
- 14 Trustees: Appointment, Retirement and Capacity
- 15 Duties and Powers of Trustees
- 16 Variation of Trusts
- 17 Fiduciary Duties and Breach of Fiduciary Duties
- 18 Breach of Trust and Defences to Breach of Trust
- 19 Remedies against Strangers to a Trust
- 20 Tracing
- Index
