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Title The worlds of the trust / edited by Lionel Smith
Published Cambridge, United Kingdom : Cambridge University Press, 2013

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Description 1 online resource (xvi, 567 pages)
Contents Trusts : the essentials / Lusina Ho -- The civil law trust : a modality of ownership or an interlude in ownership? / Yaëll Emerich -- How to square the circle? The challenge met by Swiss insolvency law in dealing with common law trusts / Aude Peyrot -- Can a modern legal system do without the trust? / Reinout Wibier -- Stateless trusts / Lionel Smith -- The security fiducie in French law / François Barrière -- The trustee : mainspring, or only a cog, in the French fiducie? / Blandine Mallet-Bricout -- British colonial law and the establishment of family waqfs by Arabs in the Straits Settlements, 1860-1941 / Nurfadzilah Yahaya -- Zionist settlers and the English private trust in Mandate Palestine / Adam Hofri-Winogradow -- Jurisprudential milestones in the development of trust law in South Africa's mixed legal system / François du Toit -- The framing of a European law of trusts / Alexandra Braun -- The dilution of the trust / Gregory S. Alexander -- The compatibility of the trust with the civil law notion of property / Paul Matthews -- Categorically different : unintended consequences of trust taxonomy / Michael Lubetsky -- Why civil law countries might forego the individual trustee : provocative insights from the new-to-the-fold / Iris J. Goodwin -- The contribution of fiduciary law / Thomas P. Gallanis -- Convergence and divergence in the worlds of the trust: duties and liabilities of trustees under the Chinese trust / Rebecca Lee -- Trust law as fiduciary governance plus asset partitioning / Robert H. Sitkoff -- Parallels between the civilian separate patrimony, real subrogation and the idea of property in a trust fund / Magda Raczynska -- Rights against rights and real obligations / Remus Valsan -- The trust and its civilian analogues / Ben McFarlane -- Up there in the Begriffshimmel? / George Gretton
Summary This collection of essays explores the law of trusts as it is understood in civilian and mixed jurisdictions
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes English
Print version record
SUBJECT Enōsis Neōn Trast gnd
Subject Trusts and trustees.
LAW -- Administrative Law & Regulatory Practice.
Trusts and trustees
Rechtsvergleich
Frankreich
Großbritannien
Schweiz
Südafrika Kontinent
Form Electronic book
Author Smith, Lionel D., editor.
LC no. 2012049255
ISBN 9781461939771
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