The worlds of the trust / edited by Lionel Smith.

Other author Smith, Lionel D.
Format Electronic
Publication InfoCambridge, United Kingdom : Cambridge University Press, 2013.
Descriptionxvi, 567 pages ; 24 cm
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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.
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ISBN1107032431 (hbk.)

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