Details
- A trusted, black-letter text that focuses on students' needs and reflects the coverage of the majority of trusts courses.
- Written clearly and including reference to a wealth of further resources, this book succeeds in being both a highly accessible and intellectually stimulating introduction to the subject.
- The two-year edition cycle and bi-annual online updates ensure this book remains current and relevant.
- An accompanying Online Resource Centre offers a range of valuable tools and information, designed to promote further learning and assist with revision. Resources include exam-style questions and answer guidance, links to key websites, regular case and legislation updates, as well as summaries of selected further reading and an additional chapter on equitable fraud.
New to this edition
- New coverage on the Charities Act 2011; the Equality Act 2010; beneficiary actions and important developments in case law.
- The book's learning features have been enriched with the introduction of 'Key Case' boxes and 'Revision Aids' to help you recognise and understand the most pertinent aspects of each topic.
- New, improved presentation makes navigating the book as easy as possible.
- The Online Resource Centre has been developed to include two additional chapters, as well as extra material supporting chapters in the book.
Now in its eleventh edition Todd & Wilson's Textbook on Trusts continues to strike the balance between introductory and more challenging texts. Carefully and skilfully written it is an accessible text providing an intellectually stimulating introduction to the subject. Sarah Wilson excels at writing for students in a clear and enthusiastic way, enlightening the more complex issues of trusts law without undue simplifications.
The book is structured to reflect the content of a typical LLB course, and offers in-depth coverage of trusts law. Students are encouraged to critically engage with the material through the real-life examples, key scholarship and current contextual and theoretical perspectives. Todd & Wilson's Textbook on Trusts engages with wider considerations, drawn from trusts scholarship and beyond, to provide an analysis of the subject which is not only rounded, but also designed to be stimulating and revelatory. Rigorously revised every two years, this book can be relied upon as one of the most up-to-date trusts texts available.
Readership: Undergraduate students studying trusts and equity on the LLB.
1: Law and equity and an introduction to the trust
2: The nature of the trust: its operation and applications in society and economy
3: Formalities and other requirements for validity
4: Constitution of trusts and equity's 'perfection' of transfers of property
5: The three certainties and the significance of the 'beneficiary principle'
6: Introduction to resulting and constructive trusts
7: Resulting trusts, gifts to non-charitable unincorporated associations and pension funds
8: Beneficial interests in the family home: a case study
9: Trusts in the commercial context: a case study for the development of trusts principles in the twenty-first century
10: Secret trusts and half-secret trusts (and constructive and resulting trusts)
11: An introduction to charity
12: The legal definition of charity
13: Cy près
14: The office of trustee: commencement and termination
15: Powers, discretions and duties of trustees
16: Variation of trusts
17: Breach of trust
18: Remedies
Sarah Wilson, Lecturer in Law, University of York
Sarah Wilson is a lecturer in law at the University of York. She has previously held posts at the University of Wales, Swansea, the University of Leeds, and the University of Manchester.
"The website is brilliant. The extra chapters, reading materials and sample essay questions are all excellent revision tools for students." - Emma Smith, Lecturer in Law, University of Sunderland
"For many students, Todd and Wilson's Textbook on Trusts will be a welcome text. It largely explains even the most complex of principles in an accessible and straight-forward way." - The Student Law Journal, May 2012
"An excellent choice for trust law students." - The Student Law Journal, May 2012
