A-Z Subject List: Key Legal Treatises and Textbooks

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The flexible nature of trusts results in its continued development, especially in the areas of resulting and constructive trusts. This new edition offers substantially revised chapters on both types of trust, as well as many more caselaw references.

This book examines the history and contemporary state of the law of trusts in every jurisdiction of Canada, including the nature of trusts under common law and civil law, and some international jurisdictions such as the Commonwealth jurisdictions and the United States where Canadian trust law is increasingly sought.

Trusts in Common-Law Canada has been significantly updated to reflect the current state of the law, with revisions specifically made to the sections devoted to the introduction and theory of trusts, creating an effective express trust and vesting the trust property, certainty of intention for a trust, and testamentary trust instruments and variations.

Provides a clear understanding of the basic law of trusts and insight into the complexities of trust law.

This book provides a comprehensive overview of trust law and related concepts in a broad context, which considers practical, social, environmental, and policy aspects.

This source discusses general and technical issues that arise in the drafting of trusts and will trusts, and provides expertly-crafted precedents.