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Equity & Trusts: Text, Cases, and Materials, 3rd Edition

Equity & Trusts: Text, Cases, and Materials, 3rd Edition

Author: Paul S. Davies; Graham Virgo; Edward Burn
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 9780198821830

Previous Edition ISBN: 9780198727651
Published In: May 2019
Format: Paperback , 1032 pages
Jurisdiction: U.K. ? Disclaimer:
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Equity & Trusts: Text, Cases, and Materials provides a comprehensive guide to trusts and equity in a single volume. Drawing on a judiciously balanced selection of case extracts, journal articles, and academic writing, Davies and Virgo present their authoritative commentary on the law with clarity and rigour.

The text guides students through the key legal principles of each case, utilizing supporting learning features to highlight important aspects and help develop students' independent research skills. Central Issues boxes introduce each chapter to identify the key themes examined and scenario-based questions frame the law in a practical context, encouraging students to think creatively around the subject and assess their own understanding.

This text offers a holistic approach to the study of equity and trusts. Using their unrivalled teaching experience, the authors bring together an expertly selected collection of cases and legal scholarship to present a text that is firmly student-focused, enabling students to fully grasp the key concepts and achieve the best possible results.

Part I Introduction to equity and trusts
1: Introduction to equity
2: Introduction to trusts
Part II Express private trusts
3: The requirements of express trust
4: Creation of express trusts
Part III Purpose trusts
5: Charitable purpose trusts
6: Non-charitable purpose trusts
Part IV Non-express trusts
7: Constructive trusts
8: Resulting trusts
9: Informal arrangements relating to property
Part V Beneficiaries
10: Beneficiaries
Part VI Trustees
11: General principles relating to trustees
12: The administration of trusts
13: Dispositive powers and duties
14: Fiduciary obligations
Part VII Variation
15: Variation of trusts
Part VIII Breach
16: Liability for breach
17: Personal claims and remedies
18: Proprietary claims and remedies
19: Third party liability
Part IX Orders
20: Equitable orders

Paul S. Davies, MA, Barrister of Lincoln's Inn, Lecturer in Law, University of Oxford, Fellow of St Catherine's College, Oxford, and Graham Virgo, Bencher of Lincoln's Inn, Professor of English Private Law, University of Cambridge, Fellow of Downing College, Cambridge

Edward Burn, Barrister, Honorary Bencher of Lincoln's Inn, Emeritus Student of Christ Church, Oxford and formerly Professor of Law in the City University

Paul S. Davies MA is a Barrister of Lincoln's Inn. He is a University Lecturer in Law at the University of Oxford and a Fellow of St Catherine's College, Oxford. Previously, he was Fellow and College Lecturer in Law at Gonville and Caius College, University of Cambridge.

Professor Graham Virgo is a Bencher of Lincoln's Inn. He is Professor of English Private Law at the University of Cambridge and a Fellow of Downing College. Professor Virgo is also the author of The Principles of Equity & Trusts (OUP, 2012)

Professor Edward Burn, Barrister, and Honorary Bencher of Lincoln's Inn, is an Emeritus Student of Christ Church, Oxford, and formerly Professor of Law in the City University.

"Clear, terse writing style which neither mystifies nor oversimplifies.'" - Claire de Than, The City Law School