Historical Research Series
Equity and the Trust: A Doctrinal History
From the use to the modern trust, with attention to the offices of equity.
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Bibliographic Record
Metadata.
- Series
- Historical Research Series
- Volume
- Monograph No. 2
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publication Date
- MMXXVI
- Document Type
- Research Monograph
- Status
- Forthcoming
- Authors
- Faculty of the School of Trust Law & Fiduciary Administration
- ISBN
- 978-1-959000-11-6
- Permanent Identifier
- equity-and-the-trust
- Subjects
- Legal history · Equity · Trusts
- Keywords
- Legal history, Equity, Trusts
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Abstract
On the scope of the work.
A doctrinal history of the trust, traced from the medieval use through the Statute of Uses to the modern law of express trusts under the Uniform Trust Code.
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Editorial Description
On the structure of the volume.
The monograph treats the trust as a creature of equity whose modern statutory expression cannot be read without its history.
Part I addresses the medieval use, the offices of the chancellor, and the development of conscience as a working jurisdiction.
Part II reads the Statute of Uses and its limits, and follows the use that escapes the statute into the modern trust.
Part III treats the codification movement of the late twentieth century, culminating in the Uniform Trust Code, and asks what equity retains when its rules are written down.
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Series
Historical Research Series
Research monographs in legal history and doctrinal development — how a rule came to be what it is.
Historical monographs are sourced to the period record: session laws, court reports, treatises, and contemporary commentary.
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Related Schools
The faculty of the work.
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Related Library Divisions
The divisions of the archive consulted in the preparation of this work.
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Preferred Citation
On citing this work.
Faculty of the School of Trust Law, Equity and the Trust: A Doctrinal History, Real Law Society Historical Research Series Monograph No. 2 (1st ed. MMXXVI).
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Editorial Notes
On revision and review.
Prior editions of this work, where any, are retained in the institutional archive of the Society. Citations in the present edition have been verified against the controlling source as of the date of publication.
The work was reviewed by faculty of the relevant School before issue and is subject to revision as the governing instruments change. The Press accepts no instruction from outside the institution.
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Related Publications
Other volumes in the catalogue.
Companion works from the same series, and other publications of the Press on related subjects.
Monograph No. 1
The Origins of the Recording Acts
Colonial registries, the Statute of Enrolments, and the American invention of the public record.
In Press · MMXXV
Vol. I
The Duties of a Trustee
A reading of the Uniform Trust Code with annotations from the Restatement (Third) of Trusts.
In Press · MMXXV
Reference No. 2
A Concordance of the Uniform Trust Code
Section-by-section comparison of state enactments of the Uniform Trust Code.
Forthcoming · MMXXVI
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