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Foundations of Trust Law

Volume I — Foundations of Trust Law

The doctrinal and historical foundations of the trust relationship: the equitable roots of the trust, the tripartite structure of settlor, trustee, and beneficiary, the substantive elements of creation, the formalities that render a trust cognizable, and the foundational classifications on which every later doctrine rests. Volume I establishes the vocabulary and the equitable premises presupposed by every subsequent volume in the Trust & Fiduciary Law Collection.

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Volume I

Foundations of Trust Law

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Part I

Foundations of the Trust Concept

The definition of the trust, the functions it performs, its equitable character, and its distinction from adjacent legal relationships.

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Part II

Historical Development of Trust Law

The medieval Use through the modern Uniform Trust Code: the historical scaffolding on which every subsequent doctrine rests.

2 Chapters Published

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Part IV

Creation of a Valid Trust

The five substantive elements of creation: intent, capacity, res, ascertainable beneficiaries, and lawful purpose.

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Part V

Formalities and Evidentiary Requirements

Writing, delivery, and evidentiary requirements for inter vivos and testamentary trusts, and the doctrine of secret and semi-secret trusts.

2 Chapters Published

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Part VI

Foundational Classifications of Trusts

Express, revocable/irrevocable, inter vivos/testamentary, and private/charitable — the foundational classifications of the modern trust landscape.

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Part VII

Non-Express Foundational Trusts

Resulting and constructive trusts — trusts that arise by operation of law rather than by settlor manifestation.

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Part VIII

The Trust–Fiduciary Interface

The trust within the broader fiduciary universe; the doctrinal relationship between trust and fiduciary law.

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Part IX

Transition to Volume II

The doctrinal handoff from foundational doctrine (Volume I) to trust administration and fiduciary duties (Volume II).

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Subject Index
  • Active and Passive Trusts — Ch. 7 § 7.08
  • Adjacent Grounds for Avoidance — Undue Influence, Duress, Fraud, and Mistake — Ch. 10 § 10.07
  • Administration — Ch. 23
  • Advancement — Ch. 20
  • Advancing to Volume II — Trust Administration and Fiduciary Duties — Ch. 23
  • After-Acquired Property and Pour-Over Funding — Ch. 11 § 11.06
  • Age and Guardianship as Legal Thresholds — Ch. 10 § 10.05
  • Agency-cost — Ch. 6
  • American-legal-history — Ch. 5
  • Attorney-general — Ch. 19
  • Beneficiaries — Ch. 12
  • Beneficiary — Ch. 8
  • Beneficiary Remedies — Survey — Ch. 23 § 23.05
  • Beneficiary-principle — Ch. 12, Ch. 19
  • Bona-fide-purchaser — Ch. 7
  • Breach of Fiduciary Duty — Ch. 21 § 21.05
  • Burden of Proof and Suspicious Circumstances — Ch. 10 § 10.08
  • Canonical Part Structure Applied — Ch. 1, Ch. 2, Ch. 3, Ch. 4, Ch. 5, Ch. 6, Ch. 7, Ch. 8, Ch. 9, Ch. 10, Ch. 11, Ch. 12, Ch. 13, Ch. 14, Ch. 15, Ch. 16, Ch. 17, Ch. 18, Ch. 19, Ch. 20, Ch. 21, Ch. 22, Ch. 23
  • Capacity — Ch. 10
  • Capacity as a Validity Requirement — Ch. 10 § 10.01
  • Capacity for Irrevocable Inter Vivos Trusts — Ch. 10 § 10.02
  • Capacity for Revocable Inter Vivos Trusts — UTC § 601 — Ch. 10 § 10.04
  • Capacity for Testamentary Trusts — Ch. 10 § 10.03
  • Care — Ch. 22
  • Categories of Property That May Serve as Res — Ch. 11 § 11.03
  • Certainty of Objects — Discretionary Trusts — Ch. 12 § 12.04
  • Certainty of Objects — Fixed-Interest Trusts — Ch. 12 § 12.03
  • Certainty-of-objects — Ch. 12
  • Chancery — Ch. 3
  • Chancery's Protection of the Cestui que Use — Ch. 4 § 4.03
  • Chapter Apparatus — Ch. 1, Ch. 2, Ch. 3, Ch. 4, Ch. 5, Ch. 6, Ch. 7, Ch. 8, Ch. 9, Ch. 10, Ch. 11, Ch. 12, Ch. 13, Ch. 14, Ch. 15, Ch. 16, Ch. 17, Ch. 18, Ch. 19, Ch. 20, Ch. 21, Ch. 22, Ch. 23
  • Chapter Purpose — Ch. 1, Ch. 2, Ch. 3, Ch. 4, Ch. 5, Ch. 6, Ch. 7, Ch. 8, Ch. 9, Ch. 10, Ch. 11, Ch. 12, Ch. 13, Ch. 14, Ch. 15, Ch. 16, Ch. 17, Ch. 18, Ch. 19, Ch. 20, Ch. 21, Ch. 22, Ch. 23
  • Charitable Purposes at Foundational Depth — Ch. 2 § 2.08
  • Charitable-trusts — Ch. 2, Ch. 13, Ch. 19
  • Choice of Law and Jurisdiction — Survey — Ch. 23 § 23.07
  • Class Designations and Powers of Selection — Ch. 12 § 12.05
  • Classification — Ch. 16, Ch. 17, Ch. 18, Ch. 19, Ch. 20
  • Closing of Volume I — Ch. 23
  • Co-trustees — Ch. 8
  • Colonial and Post-Revolutionary Reception — Ch. 5 § 5.01
  • Comparative Recognition and the Hague Convention — Ch. 6 § 6.09
  • Consequences — Transfer Taxation, Creditor Access, and Beneficiary Standing — Ch. 18 § 18.08
  • Consequences for Creditors and Third Parties — Ch. 17 § 17.06
  • Consequences of Failure for Want of Ascertainable Beneficiaries — Ch. 12 § 12.10
  • Consequences of Purpose Failure — Ch. 13 § 13.11
  • Constructive-trusts — Ch. 21
  • Contractarian — Ch. 6
  • Contravention of Public Policy — Ch. 13 § 13.04
  • Coordination — The Pour-Over Will and the Uniform Testamentary Additions to Trusts Act — Ch. 18 § 18.06
  • Corporate, Agency, and Professional Fiduciaries — Ch. 22 § 22.07
  • Corrective Doctrines — Ch. 13 § 13.08
  • Creation — Ch. 9, Ch. 9 § 9.05, Ch. 10, Ch. 11, Ch. 12, Ch. 13, Ch. 14, Ch. 15
  • Creation — Adoption of Extrinsic Content — Ch. 15 § 15.04
  • Creation — Class Designations and Enforcement — Ch. 12 § 12.05
  • Creation — Legal Thresholds and Moment of Manifestation — Ch. 10 § 10.05
  • Creation — Restrictive Conditions in the Modern Law — Ch. 13 § 13.05
  • Creation — Special Doctrinal Problems — Ch. 11 § 11.04
  • Creation — The Elements of Formality — Ch. 14 § 14.05
  • Creation — The Interaction of the Two Forms — Ch. 18 § 18.06
  • Creation (by Operation of Law) — Ch. 20 § 20.04, Ch. 21 § 21.04
  • Creation (Foundational Level) — Ch. 1 § 1.12
  • Cross-References — Ch. 1, Ch. 2, Ch. 3, Ch. 4, Ch. 5, Ch. 6, Ch. 7, Ch. 8, Ch. 9, Ch. 10, Ch. 11, Ch. 12, Ch. 13, Ch. 14, Ch. 15, Ch. 16, Ch. 17, Ch. 18, Ch. 19, Ch. 20, Ch. 21, Ch. 22, Ch. 23
  • Cy-pres — Ch. 13, Ch. 19
  • Declaration-of-trust — Ch. 14
  • Defenses — Ch. 10 § 10.07
  • Defenses — Failure of the Res — Ch. 11 § 11.08
  • Defenses (Foundational) — Ch. 9 § 9.09
  • Defenses / Corrective Doctrines — Ch. 14 § 14.10, Ch. 15 § 15.07
  • Defenses to Manifested Intent — Mistake, Undue Influence, Fraud, Incapacity — Ch. 9 § 9.09
  • Delivery and Effective Transfer — Ch. 14 § 14.07
  • Distinctive American Doctrinal Developments — Ch. 5 § 5.02
  • Distinguished from Express and Constructive Trusts — Ch. 20 § 20.03
  • Distinguished from Express and Resulting Trusts — Ch. 21 § 21.03
  • Doctrinal Boundaries — Agency, Bailment, Contract, Debt, and the Corporate Form — Ch. 6 § 6.03
  • Doctrinal Consequences of a Successful Capacity Challenge — Ch. 10 § 10.09
  • Enforcement (Foundational) — Ch. 3 § 3.06, Ch. 7 § 7.06, Ch. 8 § 8.09, Ch. 21 § 21.07
  • Enforcement by the Attorney General; Perpetuities Exemption; Federal Transfer-Tax Treatment — Ch. 19 § 19.06
  • Equitable Deviation and Cy Pres — Ch. 13 § 13.08
  • Equitable Remedies as Trust Remedies — Ch. 3 § 3.06
  • Equitable Tracing and the Proprietary Character of the Beneficiary's Interest — Ch. 7 § 7.07
  • Equitable-deviation — Ch. 13
  • Equitable-title — Ch. 7
  • Equity — Ch. 1, Ch. 2, Ch. 3, Ch. 4
  • Equity Acts In Personam — Ch. 3 § 3.03
  • Equity and the Broader Fiduciary Universe — Ch. 3 § 3.08
  • Exceptions to the Beneficiary Principle — Ch. 12 § 12.06
  • Expectancies and Future Interests — Ch. 11 § 11.04
  • Express Trusts Distinguished from Resulting and Constructive Trusts (Preview) — Ch. 16 § 16.05
  • Express-trusts — Ch. 16
  • Facts of Independent Significance — Ch. 15 § 15.05
  • Failure of Express Trust — Ch. 20 § 20.05
  • Failure of the Res — Ch. 11 § 11.08
  • Farkas v. Williams and the Doctrinal Validation of the Revocable Inter Vivos Trust — Ch. 18 § 18.05
  • Farkas-v-williams — Ch. 17
  • Fiduciary-duties — Ch. 23
  • Fiduciary-law — Ch. 1, Ch. 2, Ch. 3, Ch. 22
  • Formalities — Ch. 14, Ch. 15
  • Formalities and Trust Validity — The Consequences of Failure — Ch. 14 § 14.11, Ch. 15 § 15.10
  • Formalities as an Evidentiary Requirement — Ch. 14 § 14.01
  • Foundational — Ch. 1, Ch. 2, Ch. 3, Ch. 4, Ch. 5, Ch. 6, Ch. 7, Ch. 8, Ch. 9, Ch. 10, Ch. 11, Ch. 12, Ch. 13, Ch. 14, Ch. 15, Ch. 16, Ch. 17, Ch. 18, Ch. 19, Ch. 20, Ch. 21, Ch. 22, Ch. 23
  • Foundations — Ch. 1 § 1.01, Ch. 2 § 2.01, Ch. 3 § 3.01, Ch. 16 § 16.01, Ch. 17 § 17.01, Ch. 20 § 20.01, Ch. 21 § 21.01, Ch. 22 § 22.01, Ch. 23 § 23.01
  • Foundations (Doctrinal-Institutional) — Ch. 9 § 9.01, Ch. 10 § 10.01, Ch. 11 § 11.01, Ch. 12 § 12.01, Ch. 13 § 13.01, Ch. 14 § 14.01, Ch. 15 § 15.01, Ch. 18 § 18.01, Ch. 19 § 19.01
  • Foundations (Historical-Institutional) — Ch. 5 § 5.01, Ch. 7 § 7.01
  • Foundations (Historical) — Ch. 4 § 4.01
  • Foundations (Institutional) — Ch. 6 § 6.01, Ch. 8 § 8.01
  • Fraud, Undue Influence, and Duress — Ch. 21 § 21.04
  • From Creation to Administration — Ch. 23 § 23.02
  • Function Distinguished from Purpose — Ch. 2 § 2.02
  • Funding — Ch. 11
  • Funding, Administration, and Probate Coordination — Ch. 18 § 18.07
  • Heggstad — Ch. 14
  • Historical Development — From the Medieval Use to the Modern American Revocable Trust — Ch. 18 § 18.02
  • Honorary-trusts — Ch. 19
  • How a Trust Operates Once Created — Ch. 1 § 1.14
  • How the Reader Moves from Volume I to Volume II — Ch. 23 § 23.09
  • Illegality — Ch. 13 § 13.03
  • Impartiality, Information, and Accounting — Ch. 22 § 22.06
  • Impossibility and Impracticability — Ch. 13 § 13.07
  • Incomplete Disposition of the Beneficial Interest — Ch. 20 § 20.06
  • Incorporation by Reference — Ch. 15 § 15.04
  • Institutional Continuity — Ch. 2 § 2.06
  • Institutional-analysis — Ch. 6
  • Intent — Ch. 9
  • Intent in Resulting and Constructive Trusts — Ch. 9 § 9.10
  • Inter-vivos-trusts — Ch. 14, Ch. 18
  • Keech — Ch. 22
  • Key Principles — Ch. 1, Ch. 2, Ch. 3, Ch. 4, Ch. 5, Ch. 6, Ch. 7, Ch. 8, Ch. 9, Ch. 10, Ch. 11, Ch. 12, Ch. 13, Ch. 14, Ch. 15, Ch. 16, Ch. 17, Ch. 18, Ch. 19, Ch. 20, Ch. 21, Ch. 22, Ch. 23
  • Lawful Purpose as a Validity Requirement — Ch. 13 § 13.01
  • Legal and Equitable Title as Equitable Constructs — Ch. 3 § 3.05
  • Legal Nature — Ch. 1 § 1.04, Ch. 3 § 3.03, Ch. 8 § 8.02, Ch. 9 § 9.02, Ch. 16 § 16.02, Ch. 17 § 17.02, Ch. 20 § 20.02, Ch. 21 § 21.02, Ch. 22 § 22.02, Ch. 23 § 23.02
  • Legal Nature — Categories of Unlawful Purpose — Ch. 13 § 13.02
  • Legal Nature — Certainty of Objects — Ch. 12 § 12.03
  • Legal Nature — Content of the Res Requirement — Ch. 11 § 11.02
  • Legal Nature — The Charitable Purpose — Ch. 19 § 19.03
  • Legal Nature — The Modes of Creation — Ch. 14 § 14.02
  • Legal Nature — The Two Capacity Standards — Ch. 10 § 10.02
  • Legal Nature — The Two Forms — Ch. 18 § 18.03
  • Legal Nature — Wills Act Formalities — Ch. 15 § 15.02
  • Legal Nature (Functional Analysis) — Ch. 2 § 2.03
  • Legal Nature (Historical — Institutional Consolidation) — Ch. 5 § 5.03
  • Legal Nature (Historical) — Ch. 4 § 4.03
  • Legal Nature (Incidents of the Two Titles) — Ch. 7 § 7.03
  • Legal Nature (Institutional Boundaries) — Ch. 6 § 6.03
  • Legal-history — Ch. 4, Ch. 5
  • Legal-nature — Ch. 6, Ch. 7, Ch. 8
  • Legal-title — Ch. 7
  • Loyalty — Ch. 22
  • Management for Persons Who Cannot Manage — Ch. 2 § 2.04
  • Manifestation — Ch. 9
  • Manifestation Distinguished from Subjective Intent — Ch. 9 § 9.02
  • Mechanics of Revocation and Modification — Ch. 17 § 17.05
  • Medieval-uses — Ch. 4
  • Meinhard — Ch. 22
  • Mental Capacity as of the Moment of Manifestation — Ch. 10 § 10.06
  • Modern Participants: Directors, Protectors, and Advisors — Ch. 8 § 8.10
  • Modes of Manifestation — Declaration, Transfer, Testamentary — Ch. 9 § 9.05
  • Modification and Termination — Survey — Ch. 23 § 23.06
  • Multiple Beneficiaries and Successive Interests — Foundational Treatment — Ch. 8 § 8.08
  • Multiple Trustees — Foundational Treatment — Ch. 8 § 8.07
  • Noncharitable Purpose Trusts and Honorary Trusts — Ch. 19 § 19.07
  • Nonprobate-revolution — Ch. 18
  • Notice, Acceptance, and the Trustee's Role — Ch. 14 § 14.09
  • Operation (Foundational Level) — Ch. 1 § 1.14
  • Operation (Foundational) — Ch. 14 § 14.09, Ch. 18 § 18.07, Ch. 19 § 19.05
  • Operation-of-law — Ch. 20, Ch. 21
  • Oral Manifestations and the Formalities Interface — Ch. 9 § 9.06
  • Oral Trusts of Personal Property — Ch. 14 § 14.04
  • Overlap of Roles — Ch. 8 § 8.05
  • Part Performance and Equitable Exceptions — Ch. 14 § 14.10
  • Partial Interests, Segregation, and Identification — Ch. 11 § 11.05
  • Partial Invalidity and Severance — Ch. 13 § 13.10
  • Pemsel — Ch. 19
  • Pet-trusts — Ch. 12
  • Pour-over — Ch. 11
  • Pour-over-wills — Ch. 15, Ch. 18
  • Practical Application (Transitional) — Ch. 23 § 23.09
  • Precatory — Ch. 9
  • Precatory Language — Ch. 9 § 9.03
  • Primary Authorities — Ch. 1, Ch. 2, Ch. 3, Ch. 4, Ch. 5, Ch. 6, Ch. 7, Ch. 8, Ch. 9, Ch. 10, Ch. 11, Ch. 12, Ch. 13, Ch. 14, Ch. 15, Ch. 16, Ch. 17, Ch. 18, Ch. 19, Ch. 20, Ch. 21, Ch. 22, Ch. 23
  • Primary Authorities Cited in This Chapter — Ch. 1, Ch. 2, Ch. 3, Ch. 4, Ch. 5, Ch. 6, Ch. 7, Ch. 8, Ch. 9, Ch. 10, Ch. 11, Ch. 12, Ch. 13, Ch. 14, Ch. 15, Ch. 16, Ch. 17, Ch. 18, Ch. 19, Ch. 20, Ch. 21, Ch. 22, Ch. 23
  • Principal Research Sources — Ch. 1, Ch. 2, Ch. 3, Ch. 4, Ch. 5, Ch. 6, Ch. 7, Ch. 8, Ch. 9, Ch. 10, Ch. 11, Ch. 12, Ch. 13, Ch. 14, Ch. 15, Ch. 16, Ch. 17, Ch. 18, Ch. 19, Ch. 20, Ch. 21, Ch. 22, Ch. 23
  • Private-trusts — Ch. 19
  • Property-law — Ch. 1
  • Proprietary — Ch. 6
  • Prudent-investor — Ch. 22
  • Prudent-investor-rule — Ch. 5
  • Public-policy — Ch. 13
  • Purchase-money — Ch. 20
  • Purchase-Money Resulting Trust — Ch. 20 § 20.04
  • Purpose — Ch. 13
  • Purpose-trusts — Ch. 12, Ch. 19
  • Racial and Comparable Discriminatory Purposes — Ch. 13 § 13.05
  • Reader Orientation — Ch. 1, Ch. 2, Ch. 3, Ch. 4, Ch. 5, Ch. 6, Ch. 7, Ch. 8, Ch. 9, Ch. 10, Ch. 11, Ch. 12, Ch. 13, Ch. 14, Ch. 15, Ch. 16, Ch. 17, Ch. 18, Ch. 19, Ch. 20, Ch. 21, Ch. 22, Ch. 23
  • Related Chapters — Ch. 1, Ch. 2, Ch. 3, Ch. 4, Ch. 5, Ch. 6, Ch. 7, Ch. 8, Ch. 9, Ch. 10, Ch. 11, Ch. 12, Ch. 13, Ch. 14, Ch. 15, Ch. 16, Ch. 17, Ch. 18, Ch. 19, Ch. 20, Ch. 21, Ch. 22, Ch. 23
  • Related Doctrines — Ch. 1 § 1.16, Ch. 2 § 2.09, Ch. 3 § 3.08, Ch. 9 § 9.10, Ch. 15 § 15.10, Ch. 16 § 16.05, Ch. 17 § 17.07, Ch. 18 § 18.09, Ch. 19 § 19.07, Ch. 20 § 20.07, Ch. 21 § 21.08, Ch. 22 § 22.07, Ch. 23 § 23.06
  • Related Doctrines (Comparative) — Ch. 6 § 6.09
  • Related Doctrines (Federal Interfaces and State Variation) — Ch. 5 § 5.08
  • Related Doctrines (Historical Residue) — Ch. 7 § 7.08
  • Related Doctrines (Historiographical) — Ch. 4 § 4.07
  • Religious, Marital, and Comparable Personal-Life Restrictions — Ch. 13 § 13.06
  • Res — Ch. 11
  • Resolving the Discrepancy — Choice of Law and Governing Instrument — Ch. 17 § 17.04
  • Restatement-third-of-trusts — Ch. 1, Ch. 3, Ch. 5
  • Restitution — Ch. 21
  • Resulting-trusts — Ch. 20
  • Revocable-trust — Ch. 2, Ch. 10
  • Revocable-trusts — Ch. 17, Ch. 18
  • Rights and Duties (Foundational Level) — Ch. 1 § 1.15
  • Rights and Duties (Foundational) — Ch. 6 § 6.08, Ch. 8 § 8.07, Ch. 17 § 17.05, Ch. 22 § 22.04
  • Rights and Duties (Handoff) — Ch. 23 § 23.03
  • Risk Management and Creditor Considerations — Ch. 2 § 2.07
  • Scholarly Accounts of the Origin and Survival of the Use — Ch. 4 § 4.07
  • Secondary Authorities Cited in This Chapter — Ch. 1, Ch. 2, Ch. 3, Ch. 4, Ch. 5, Ch. 6, Ch. 7, Ch. 8, Ch. 9, Ch. 10, Ch. 11, Ch. 12, Ch. 13, Ch. 14, Ch. 15, Ch. 16, Ch. 17, Ch. 18, Ch. 19, Ch. 20, Ch. 21, Ch. 22
  • Secret Trusts — The Classical Doctrine — Ch. 15 § 15.07
  • Secret-trusts — Ch. 15
  • Semi-Secret Trusts and the Differential Remedial Question — Ch. 15 § 15.08
  • Semi-secret-trusts — Ch. 15
  • Separation of Ownership from Enjoyment — Ch. 2 § 2.05
  • Settlor — Ch. 8
  • Spendthrift-trust — Ch. 5
  • Standing — Ch. 8
  • Standing to Enforce the Trust — Foundational Treatment — Ch. 8 § 8.09
  • State Enactment, Variation, and Federal Interfaces — Ch. 5 § 5.08
  • Statute-of-frauds — Ch. 4, Ch. 9, Ch. 14
  • Statute-of-uses — Ch. 4, Ch. 7
  • Statute-of-wills — Ch. 4
  • Statutory Pet and Purpose Trusts — Ch. 12 § 12.08
  • Sub-Classifications of Express Trusts — Ch. 16 § 16.03
  • Testamentary-capacity — Ch. 10
  • Testamentary-trusts — Ch. 15, Ch. 18
  • The Agency-Cost Characterization of the Trust — Sitkoff — Ch. 6 § 6.06
  • The Beneficiary Principle — Ch. 12 § 12.01
  • The Beneficiary Principle — Morice v. Bishop of Durham — Ch. 19 § 19.02
  • The Beneficiary-Ascertainability Exception — Ch. 19 § 19.05
  • The Beneficiary's Role — Ch. 8 § 8.04
  • The Chancery Jurisdiction in Outline — Ch. 3 § 3.02
  • The Charitable-Trust Exception — Ch. 12 § 12.06
  • The Classification as a Distinction of Substance — Ch. 19 § 19.01
  • The Classification as a Distinction of Timing — Ch. 18 § 18.01
  • The Constructive Trust in Outline — Ch. 21 § 21.01
  • The Continuing Significance of Divided Title in Modern Trust Law — Ch. 7 § 7.09
  • The Contractarian Characterization of the Trust — Langbein — Ch. 6 § 6.05
  • The Coordination of Restatement, Code, and State Common Law — Ch. 5 § 5.10
  • The Default/Mandatory Architecture — UTC § 105 — Ch. 6 § 6.08
  • The Definition of Charitable Purpose — Ch. 19 § 19.03
  • The Doctrinal Foundation Established in Volume I — Ch. 23 § 23.01
  • The Duty of Care — Ch. 22 § 22.05
  • The Duty of Loyalty — Ch. 22 § 22.04
  • The Emergence of the Use — Ch. 4 § 4.02
  • The Enforceability of Equitable Title Against Third Parties — Bona Fide Purchaser — Ch. 7 § 7.06
  • The Enforcement Mechanism — Ch. 12 § 12.09
  • The Enforcement Rationale — Ch. 12 § 12.02
  • The Equitable Character of the Trust — Ch. 1 § 1.11
  • The Equitable Justification — Fraud, Unjust Enrichment, and the Wills Act's Integrity — Ch. 15 § 15.09
  • The Equitable Maxims Governing Trusts — Ch. 3 § 3.04
  • The Essential Elements at a Glance — Ch. 1 § 1.13
  • The Express Trust as Default — Ch. 16 § 16.04
  • The Express Trust in Outline — Ch. 16 § 16.01
  • The Express Trust in Practice — Ch. 16 § 16.06
  • The Feudal Landholding Background — Ch. 4 § 4.01
  • The First and Second Restatements of Trusts (1935, 1959) — Ch. 5 § 5.05
  • The Foundational/Operational Boundary — What Is Reserved for Volume II — Ch. 19 § 19.08
  • The Four Pemsel Heads — Ch. 19 § 19.04
  • The Four Purpose Defects — Ch. 13 § 13.02
  • The Functional Literature and Its Limits — Ch. 2 § 2.09
  • The Functions of Trusts — Ch. 1 § 1.02
  • The Harmless-Error Rule and the Reach of Modern Doctrine — Ch. 15 § 15.03
  • The Heggstad Line — Declarations Without Retitling — Ch. 14 § 14.08
  • The Historical Origin of Divided Ownership — Ch. 7 § 7.01
  • The Honorary-Trust Exception — Ch. 12 § 12.07
  • The Incidents of Equitable Title — The Beneficiary as Equitable Owner — Ch. 7 § 7.04
  • The Incidents of Legal Title — The Trustee as Legal Owner — Ch. 7 § 7.03
  • The Institutional Adaptability of the Trust — Ch. 6 § 6.07
  • The Intent Element as Constitutive — Ch. 9 § 9.01
  • The Inter Vivos Trust — Definition and Modes of Creation — Ch. 18 § 18.03
  • The Medieval Vocabulary and Its Modern Residue — Ch. 4 § 4.06
  • The Modification-and-Termination Controversy — Ch. 5 § 5.09
  • The Nineteenth-Century Treatise Tradition — Story and Perry — Ch. 5 § 5.03
  • The Nonprobate Revolution and the Ascendancy of the Funded Revocable Trust — Ch. 18 § 18.09
  • The Presumption of Advancement and Its Modern Critique — Ch. 20 § 20.07
  • The Private/Charitable Purpose Distinction — Ch. 13 § 13.09
  • The Prohibition on Sole Trustee/Sole Beneficiary — Ch. 8 § 8.06
  • The Proprietary Characterization of the Trust — Scott, Bogert, and the Restatement (Third) — Ch. 6 § 6.04
  • The Res as a Validity Requirement — Ch. 11 § 11.01
  • The Res as the Object of the Dual-Title Structure — Ch. 11 § 11.09
  • The Res Requirement in Summary — Ch. 11 § 11.10
  • The Restatement (Third) and Uniform Trust Code Treatment — Ch. 11 § 11.07
  • The Restatement (Third) of Trusts (2003–2012) — Ch. 5 § 5.06
  • The Resulting Trust in Outline — Ch. 20 § 20.01
  • The Revocable Trust as Will Substitute — Ch. 17 § 17.07
  • The Revocable/Irrevocable Distinction in Outline — Ch. 17 § 17.01
  • The Separation of Ownership and Control — Ch. 7 § 7.05
  • The Settlor's Manifestation as Constitutive — Ch. 16 § 16.02
  • The Settlor's Role — Ch. 8 § 8.02
  • The Signature Requirement and Electronic Execution — Ch. 14 § 14.06
  • The Statute of Frauds and Trusts of Real Property — Ch. 14 § 14.03
  • The Statute of Uses (1535/1536) — Ch. 4 § 4.04
  • The Survival of Equity in Fused Systems — Ch. 3 § 3.07
  • The Testamentary Trust — Definition and Mode of Creation — Ch. 18 § 18.04
  • The Three Certainties — Ch. 9 § 9.04
  • The Traditional Presumption of Irrevocability — Ch. 17 § 17.02
  • The Tripartite Content — Identifiability, Existence, Transferability — Ch. 11 § 11.02
  • The Tripartite Relationship — Ch. 1 § 1.15
  • The Tripartite Structure — Ch. 8 § 8.01
  • The Trust and Fiduciary Law — Ch. 22 § 22.01
  • The Trust and the Broader Fiduciary Universe — Ch. 1 § 1.16
  • The Trust as a Legal Institution — Ch. 1 § 1.04
  • The Trust as a Legal Technology — Ch. 2 § 2.01
  • The Trust as a Relationship, Not a Person — Ch. 6 § 6.01
  • The Trust as a Relationship, Not an Entity — Ch. 6 § 6.02
  • The Trust as Paradigmatic Fiduciary Relationship — Ch. 22 § 22.02
  • The Trust Defined — Ch. 1 § 1.01
  • The Trustee's Role — Ch. 8 § 8.03
  • The Twentieth-Century Treatise Tradition — Bogert and Scott — Ch. 5 § 5.04
  • The Two Modes: Declaration and Transfer — Ch. 14 § 14.02
  • The U.S. Restatement of Restitution vs. Commonwealth Approaches — Ch. 21 § 21.08
  • The Uniform Testamentary Additions to Trusts Act and the Pour-Over Will — Ch. 15 § 15.06
  • The Uniform Trust Code (2000, with Amendments) — Ch. 5 § 5.07
  • The Use Upon a Use and the Emergence of the Modern Trust — Ch. 4 § 4.05
  • The UTC § 602 Presumption of Revocability — Ch. 17 § 17.03
  • The Vocabulary of Trust Law — Ch. 1 § 1.03
  • The Wills Act as the Governing Formalities Regime — Ch. 15 § 15.01
  • The Writing Requirement — Content and Sufficiency — Ch. 14 § 14.05
  • Three-certainties — Ch. 9, Ch. 16
  • Timing of Manifestation — Ch. 9 § 9.07
  • Tracing — Ch. 7, Ch. 21
  • Tracing and Following — Foundational — Ch. 21 § 21.07
  • Transition — Ch. 23
  • Transition to Chapter 10 — Ch. 9
  • Transition to Chapter 11 — Ch. 10
  • Transition to Chapter 12 — Ch. 11
  • Transition to Chapter 13 — Ch. 12
  • Transition to Chapter 14 — Ch. 13
  • Transition to Chapter 15 — Ch. 14
  • Transition to Chapter 16 — Ch. 15
  • Transition to Chapter 17 — Ch. 16
  • Transition to Chapter 18 — Ch. 17
  • Transition to Chapter 19 — Ch. 18
  • Transition to Chapter 2 — Ch. 1
  • Transition to Chapter 20 — Ch. 19
  • Transition to Chapter 21 — Ch. 20
  • Transition to Chapter 23 — Ch. 22
  • Transition to Chapter 3 — Ch. 2
  • Transition to Chapter 4 — Ch. 3
  • Transition to Chapter 5 — Ch. 4
  • Transition to Chapter 6 — Ch. 5
  • Transition to Chapter 7 — Ch. 6
  • Transition to Chapter 8 — Ch. 7
  • Transition to Chapter 9 — Ch. 8
  • Transition to Part Eight — Ch. 21
  • Tripartite-relationship — Ch. 8
  • Trust by Operation of Law — Not by Manifestation — Ch. 20 § 20.02
  • Trust Distinguished from Agency — Ch. 1 § 1.05
  • Trust Distinguished from Bailment — Ch. 1 § 1.06
  • Trust Distinguished from Contract — Ch. 1 § 1.07
  • Trust Distinguished from Corporate and Other Entity Forms — Ch. 1 § 1.10
  • Trust Distinguished from Gift — Ch. 1 § 1.08
  • Trust Distinguished from Guardianship and Custodianship — Ch. 1 § 1.09
  • Trust Intent Distinguished from Contractual and Testamentary Intent — Ch. 9 § 9.08
  • Trust or Remedy? — The Characterization Debate — Ch. 21 § 21.02
  • Trust-law — Ch. 1, Ch. 2, Ch. 3, Ch. 4, Ch. 5, Ch. 6, Ch. 7, Ch. 8, Ch. 9, Ch. 10, Ch. 11, Ch. 12, Ch. 13, Ch. 14, Ch. 15, Ch. 16, Ch. 17, Ch. 18, Ch. 19, Ch. 20, Ch. 21, Ch. 22, Ch. 23
  • Trust-property — Ch. 11
  • Trustee — Ch. 8
  • Trustee Duties — Survey — Ch. 23 § 23.04
  • Trustee Powers — Survey — Ch. 23 § 23.03
  • Undue-influence — Ch. 10
  • Unified vs. Family-of-Doctrines Accounts — Ch. 22 § 22.03
  • Uniform-trust-code — Ch. 1, Ch. 3, Ch. 5
  • Unjust Enrichment as a General Basis — Ch. 21 § 21.06
  • Unjust-enrichment — Ch. 21
  • Utata — Ch. 15, Ch. 18
  • Utc-105 — Ch. 6
  • Utc-602 — Ch. 17
  • Volume III and Beyond — Preview — Ch. 23 § 23.08
  • Volume-ii — Ch. 23
  • Wealth Transmission Across Time — Ch. 2 § 2.03
  • Wealth-transmission — Ch. 2
  • What "Equitable" Means in Trust Law — Ch. 3 § 3.01
  • What It Means to Create a Trust — Ch. 1 § 1.12
  • Why Equity Recognized Beneficial Ownership — Ch. 7 § 7.02
  • Will-substitute — Ch. 17
  • Wills-act — Ch. 15
  • Writing, Signature, and Attestation — Ch. 15 § 15.02

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