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    English trust law concerns the protection of assets, usually when they are held by one party for another's benefit. Trusts were a creation of the English...
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    In law, a trust refers to a relationship in which the owner of property (or any other transferable right) gives it to a designated entity, usually described...
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  • In English law, secret trusts are a class of trust defined as an arrangement between a testator and a trustee, made to come into force after death, that...
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  • classification of Quistclose trusts in existing trusts law: whether they are resulting trusts, express trusts, constructive trusts or, as Lord Millett said...
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    Charitable trusts in English law are a form of express trust dedicated to charitable goals. There are various advantages to charitable trust status, including...
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  • In English law, a purpose trust is a trust created for the fulfillment of a purpose, not for the benefit of a person. These are normally considered invalid...
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  • Constructive trusts in English law are a form of trust created by the English law courts primarily where the defendant has dealt with property in an "unconscionable...
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    Resulting trusts in English law are trusts created where property is not properly disposed of. It comes from the Latin resultare, meaning to spring back...
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    English law is the common law legal system of England and Wales, comprising mainly criminal law and civil law, each branch having its own courts and procedures...
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  • Discretionary trusts and powers in English law are elements of the English law of trusts, specifically of express trusts. Express trusts are trusts expressly...
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  • Tracing is a procedure in English law used to identify property (such as money) which has been taken from the claimant involuntarily or which the claimant...
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    and trusts concerns the origin of the body of rules known as Equity, Uses, English trust law and their development into the modern body of trust law that...
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    United States trust law is the body of law that regulates the legal instrument for holding wealth known as a trust. Most of the law regulating the creation...
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  • The creation of express trusts in English law must involve four elements for the trust to be valid: capacity, certainty, constitution and formality. Capacity...
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  • law are different. In England, property law encompasses four main topics: English land law, or the law of "real property" English trusts law English personal...
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  • Australian trust law is the law of trusts as it is applied in Australia. It is derived from, and largely continues to follow English trust law, as modified...
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    A testamentary trust (sometimes referred to as a will trust or trust under will) is a trust which arises upon the death of the testator, and which is specified...
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  • attacking monopolistic companies (known as trusts) is commonly known as trust busting. The history of competition law reaches back to the Roman Empire. The...
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  • breach of trust in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Breach of trust is a type of civil wrong in English trust law. Breach of trust or Breach of Trust may also...
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    cy-pres doctrine in English law is an element of trusts law that deals with charitable trusts. The doctrine states that when such a trust has failed because...
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    "In God We Trust" (also rendered as "In God we trust") is the official motto of the United States as well as the motto of the U.S. state of Florida, along...
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  • in English law are required in some kinds of transaction by English contract law and trusts law. In a limited number of cases, agreements and trusts will...
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  • Liability of trustees inter se in English law governs in what circumstances and to what extent a trustee in English trust law is liable for the acts and defaults...
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  • Illegality in English law is a potential ground in English contract law, tort, trusts or UK company law for a court to refuse to enforce an obligation...
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    Charges Act 1972, the Trusts of Land and Appointment of Trustees Act 1996 and the Land Registration Act 2002. At its core, English land law involves the acquisition...
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  • criminal law but also in civil law, where it is relevant to contract law and trusts law. Duress involves illegitimate threats. The common law long allowed...
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  • The Uniform Trust Code is a model law in the United States created by the Uniform Law Commission, which, although not binding, is influential in the states...
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  • Re Golay’s Will Trusts [1965] 1 WLR 969 is an English trusts law case, concerning the requirement of subject matter to be sufficiently certain. Adrian...
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    corporate trusts during this period is the historical reason for the name "antitrust law". In the broader sense of the term, relating to trust law, a trust is...
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  • guaranteed (often a charity) Voluntary association English contract law English trust law UK partnership law "Choose a legal structure for a new business -...
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