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Pearce & Stevens' Trusts and Equitable Obligations provides students with a detailed and contextualized account of the law of equity and trusts.
List of contents
- Part I The Importance of Equity
- 1: What is equity?
- 2: Equitable obligations
- 3: Equity and the management of property
- 4: Equitable remedies in modern English law
- Part II Creating the Relationship
- 5: Certainty
- 6: Constitution of trusts
- 7: Formalities
- 8: Policy limits
- Part III Resulting and Constructive Trusts
- 9: Resulting trusts
- 10: Constructive trusts
- Part IV Equity in Action: The Family Home
- 11: The family home in context
- 12: Determining interests in the family home through trusts
- 13: The evolution of rights in the family home
- 14: Proprietary estoppel
- 15: Family homes: Postscript
- Part V Equity in Society
- 16: Clubs and societies
- 17: Wills and intestate succession
- 18: Secret trusts
- Part VI Charitable Trusts
- 19: The role and status of charities
- 20: Charitable purposes
- 21: Public benefit
- 22: Cy-près: redistributing funds and changing purposes
- 23: Control and regulation of charitable trusts
- Part VII Allocation of Benefit
- 24: Choosing who benefits
- 25: Fixed trusts
- 26: Powers of appointment
- 27: Discretionary trusts
- 28: Powers of maintenance and advancement
- 29: Variation of beneficial interests
- Part VIII Managing Trust Property
- 30: Management and delegation
- 31: Investment
- 32: Appointing and changing trustees
- Part IX Controlling Trustees and Fiduciaries
- 33: Need for control
- 34: Remedies against the trustee for breach of trust
- 35: Fiduciary duties of trustees and other fiduciaries
- 36: Limitation of action
- Part X Recovering Trust Property
- 37: Remedies against strangers to the trust
- 38: Tracing
About the author
Warren Barr is Professor in Law and Dean of the School of Law and Social Justice at the University of Liverpool. He is a current member, and ex-Director, of the Charity Law and Policy Unit, Liverpool Law School. He is also Principal Fellow of the Higher Education Academy, and was named Law Teacher of the Year in 2006.
John Picton is Senior Lecturer in Law at the University of Liverpool. He is a member of the Charity Law and Policy Unit at Liverpool. He researches and publishes on Charity Law and Equity & Trusts.
Summary
Pearce & Stevens' Trusts and Equitable Obligations provides students with a detailed and contextualized account of the law of equity and trusts.
