The worlds of the trust / edited by Lionel Smith.

This collection of essays explores the law of trusts as it is understood in civilian and mixed jurisdictions.

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Other Authors: Smith, Lionel D. (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cambridge, United Kingdom : Cambridge University Press, 2013.
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Table of Contents:
  • Trusts : the essentials / Lusina Ho
  • The civil law trust : a modality of ownership or an interlude in ownership? / Yaëll Emerich
  • How to square the circle? The challenge met by Swiss insolvency law in dealing with common law trusts / Aude Peyrot
  • Can a modern legal system do without the trust? / Reinout Wibier
  • Stateless trusts / Lionel Smith
  • The security fiducie in French law / François Barrière
  • The trustee : mainspring, or only a cog, in the French fiducie? / Blandine Mallet-Bricout
  • British colonial law and the establishment of family waqfs by Arabs in the Straits Settlements, 1860-1941 / Nurfadzilah Yahaya
  • Zionist settlers and the English private trust in Mandate Palestine / Adam Hofri-Winogradow
  • Jurisprudential milestones in the development of trust law in South Africa's mixed legal system / François du Toit
  • The framing of a European law of trusts / Alexandra Braun
  • The dilution of the trust / Gregory S. Alexander
  • The compatibility of the trust with the civil law notion of property / Paul Matthews
  • Categorically different : unintended consequences of trust taxonomy / Michael Lubetsky
  • Why civil law countries might forego the individual trustee : provocative insights from the new-to-the-fold / Iris J. Goodwin
  • The contribution of fiduciary law / Thomas P. Gallanis
  • Convergence and divergence in the worlds of the trust: duties and liabilities of trustees under the Chinese trust / Rebecca Lee
  • Trust law as fiduciary governance plus asset partitioning / Robert H. Sitkoff
  • Parallels between the civilian separate patrimony, real subrogation and the idea of property in a trust fund / Magda Raczynska
  • Rights against rights and real obligations / Remus Valsan
  • The trust and its civilian analogues / Ben McFarlane
  • Up there in the Begriffshimmel? / George Gretton.