Todd & Watt's Cases and Materials on Equity and Trusts

by Watt, Gary

• ISBN13: 9780199664801
• ISBN10: 0199664803
• Edition: 9th
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2013-08-16
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Summary

In a subject that is heavily case law based, the content of Todd & Watt's Cases and Materials on Equity and Trusts provides an essential reference source for students. The ninth edition contains an impressive range of relevant and interesting case law, statutory material, academic writing, and official proposals for law reform. Where appropriate, legal materials are accompanied by non-legal literary texts with a view to making legal points more interesting and memorable.

Gary Watt continues to combine rigorous scholarship with a student-focused approach in his choice of materials and his associated commentary. The book uses key features as tools to assist students' learning and revision, including questions, suggestions for further reading, and notes.

Table of Contents

Part I Introduction to equity and trusts
1. Foundations of equity and trusts
2. Trusts in context
Part II Creation and recognition of trusts
3. Trusts created expressly
4. Constitution of trusts: effective disposition of benefit
5. Resulting trusts: ineffective disposition of benefit
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. Variation of trusts and the flexibility of benefit
10. The fiduciary duty
11. Fulfilling and filling the office of trustee
12. 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 liability of strangers to the trust
Part V Equity
16. Equity: maxims, doctrines, and remedies