Bequests to establish trusts that confer educational benefits on racial preferences are troublesome. The common law jurisdictions of the United States have grappled with this problem and have designed solutions that differ from the Barbados and United Kingdom approach. Constitutional law issues...

The following article is a presentation of precatory words and the creation of trusts in a Commonwealth Caribbean jurisdiction. Re Codrington, U.S.P.G. v. Attorney-General concerned a bequest in the will of Christopher Codrington, who was once Chief Governor of the Leeward Islands, and who died...