The worlds of the trust / edited by Lionel Smith.
| Other author | Smith, Lionel D. |
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication Info | Cambridge, United Kingdom : Cambridge University Press, 2013. |
| Description | xvi, 567 pages ; 24 cm |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from Ebook Central - Academic Complete |
| Subjects |
| Contents | Trusts : the essentials / Lusina Ho. -- The civil law trust : a modality of ownership or an interlude in ownership? / Yaèell 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 / Franðcois Barriáere. -- 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 / Franðcois du Toit. -- The framing of a European law of trusts / Alexandra Braun. |
| Contents | The dilution of the trust / Gregory 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 Goodwin. -- The contribution of fiduciary law / Thomas 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 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. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 2012049255 |
| ISBN | 9781107032439 (hbk.) |
| ISBN | 1107032431 (hbk.) |
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| Electronic Resources | Access Content Online | ✔ Available |