Details
- A solid mid-level, black-letter text that focuses on students' needs and reflects the coverage of the majority of trusts courses
- This book offers in-depth coverage of all the key topics on a typical LLB course in a concise and manageable way
- The two year edition cycle and twice-yearly online updates ensures this book remains current and relevant
- An accompanying Online Resource Centre offers a range of valuable tools to help further learning and revision, including regular case and legislation updates, exam-style questions and answer guidance, links to key websites, and summaries of selected further reading
New to this edition
- A new chapter dedicated to 'Trusts in the Commercial Context' will help engage students by firmly placing the principles of trusts law in a twenty-first century context
- Greater coverage of a number of aspects of trusteeship, with more focus on the fundamental and fiduciary nature of trusteeship. New materials on the constitution of trusts are also included to draw students' attention to new developments in the case law, and the increasing reach of trusts in different contexts
- New materials relating to family homes, pensions and charity law to reflect developments in these spheres
- The approach and language of the book has been carefully and comprehensively updated to ensure it is entirely relevant for the modern student of trusts law
Now in its tenth edition, Todd & Wilson's Textbook on Trusts continues to strike the balance between introductory texts and more challenging texts. It has been carefully and skilfully written to give 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 oversimplification.
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 engage critically with the material through the real-life examples, key scholarship and consideration of current contextual and theoretical perspectives. It 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.
Online Resource Centre
The accompanying Online Resource Centre offers a range of valuable tools to help further learning and revision, including regular case and legislation updates, exam-style questions and answer guidance, links to key websites, and summaries of selected further reading.
Readership: Undergraduate students studying trusts and equity on the LLB.
1: Law and equity and an introduction to the trust2: The nature of the trust: its operation and applications in society and economy3: Formalities and other requirements for validity4: Constitution of trusts and equity's 'perfection' of transfers of property5: The three certainties and the significance of the 'beneficiary principle'6: Introduction to resulting and constructive trusts7: Resulting trusts, gifts to non-charitable unincoporated associations and pension funds8: Beneficial interests in the family home: a case study9: Trusts in the commercial context: a case study for the development of trusts principles in the twenty-first century10: Secret trusts and half-secret trusts (and constructive and resulting trusts)11: Equitable fraud and the constructive trust12: An introduction to charity13: The legal definition of charity14: Cy près15: The office of trustee: commencement and termination16: Powers, discretions and duties of trustees17: Variation of trusts18: Breach of trust19: Remedies;
Sarah Wilson, Lecturer in law, University of York
Sarah Wilson is a lecturer in law at York University. She has previously held posts at the University of Swansea, the University of Leeds, and most recently at the University of Manchester.
"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
