An Introduction to the Law of Trusts

Author:   Simon Gardner (Fellow of Lincoln College, Oxford)
Publisher:   Oxford University Press
Edition:   3rd Revised edition
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9780199545742


Pages:   400
Publication Date:   05 May 2011
Format:   Hardback
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Author:   Simon Gardner (Fellow of Lincoln College, Oxford)
Publisher:   Oxford University Press
Imprint:   Oxford University Press
Edition:   3rd Revised edition
Dimensions:   Width: 13.70cm , Height: 2.80cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.590kg
ISBN:  

9780199545742


ISBN 10:   019954574
Pages:   400
Publication Date:   05 May 2011
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Undergraduate
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   To order   Availability explained
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Table of Contents

1: The nature of trusts 2: Policies shaping the express trust concept 3: Finding settlors' intentions 4: Promises to make trusts 5: Formalities 6: Charitable trusts 7: Stewardship 8: Fixed trusts 9: Dispositive discretions 10: Modification 11: Securing performance 12: Trustees' duties and beneficiaries' rights 13: Breach of trust and remedies 14: Liabilities of strangers 15: Constructive trusts 1 16: Resulting trusts 17: Constructive trusts 2 18: Constructive trusts 3

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<br>Review(s) from previous edition <br> Gardner is to be congratulated for having produced this stimulating introduction which... will be a very valuable addition to any serious library in the topic, as well as providing an introduction which trusts teachers would do well to recommend enthusiastically to their students. <br> - C.E.F. Rickett, The Cambridge Law Journal, Vol 50 No.2 (Jul 1991), pp369-371 <br><p><br> Gardner's book... is written in a clear, attractive style. Gardner... deal[s] with difficult topics with clarity and depth. He gives a clear treatment of the cases, along with an effective critique, and he discusses the issues in the light of the political models. In short, he does succeed in carrying out the Series' aim of providing 'a general perspective of legal ideas and problems which will make their detailed study more rewarding'... [It is] well written, careful and insightful. <br>- T.G. Youdan, Writing on the Law of Trusts, in The Oxford Journal of L


`Review from previous edition Gardner is to be congratulated for having produced this stimulating introduction which... will be a very valuable addition to any serious library in the topic, as well as providing an introduction which trusts teachers would do well to recommend enthusiastically to their students.' C.E.F. Rickett, The Cambridge Law Journal, Vol 50 No.2 (Jul 1991), pp369-371 `Gardner's book... is written in a clear, attractive style. Gardner... deal[s] with difficult topics with clarity and depth. He gives a clear treatment of the cases, along with an effective critique, and he discusses the issues in the light of the political models. In short, he does succeed in carrying out the Series' aim of providing 'a general perspective of legal ideas and problems which will make their detailed study more rewarding'... [It is] well written, careful and insightful.' T.G. Youdan, Writing on the Law of Trusts, in The Oxford Journal of Legal Studies, Vol 12 (Summer 1992), pp275-283


<br>Review(s) from previous edition <br><br> Gardner is to be congratulated for having produced this stimulating introduction which... will be a very valuable addition to any serious library in the topic, as well as providing an introduction which trusts teachers would do well to recommend enthusiastically to their students. <br><br> - C.E.F. Rickett, The Cambridge Law Journal, Vol 50 No.2 (Jul 1991), pp369-371 <br><br><p><br> Gardner's book... is written in a clear, attractive style. Gardner... deal[s] with difficult topics with clarity and depth. He gives a clear treatment of the cases, along with an effective critique, and he discusses the issues in the light of the political models. In short, he does succeed in carrying out the Series' aim of providing 'a general perspective of legal ideas and problems which will make their detailed study more rewarding'... [It is] well written, careful and insightful. <br><br>- T.G. Youdan, Writing on the Law of Trusts, in The Oxford Journal of Legal Studies, Vol 12 (Summer 1992), pp275-283 <br><p><br>


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Simon Gardner has been a member of the Oxford University Law Faculty and a Fellow of Lincoln College since 1978, working and teaching primarily in the areas of Land Law, Trusts, and Criminal Law. He is the author of some fifty articles, principally in these areas, and of books in Land Law and Trusts. In recent years he been made an Academic Member of the Chancery Bar Association, and was given a Teaching Excellence Award by Oxford University.

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