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The Stripping of the Trust : A Study in Legal Evolution

Hofri-Winogradow, Adam S. - 2017

The law of trusts has spent the last twenty years rapidly shedding many traditional requirements, forms and restrictions which imposed liability on negligent trustees, protected vulnerable beneficiaries and prevented the use of trusts to avoid the claims of settlors' and beneficiaries'...

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Does the Concern About Local Crime Affect Trust in the Police?

Sampaio, Joelson Oliveira - 2015

This paper investigates local crime's concern effect on confidence in the police using Two Least Square Regressions … having as instrumental variable the individual distance to police stations. We explore data from the Confidence in Justice … registered reduces confidence on police. Such results are more effusively in some crimes like drug dealing and rape. Exploring …

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Making Directed Trusts Work : The Uniform Directed Trust Act

Morley, John - 2020

Directed trusts have become a familiar feature of trust practice in spite of considerable legal uncertainty about them. Fortunately, the Uniform Law Commission has just finished work on the Uniform Directed Trust Act (UDTA), a new uniform law that offers clear solutions to the many legal...

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Trusts and Anti-Avoidance Under the Care Act 2014

Sloan, Brian - 2015

This paper arises out of the author's project on “Adult Social Care and Property Rights”, begun during an Early Career … equitably distributed, and protecting the property-related interests of care recipients and those who would otherwise be the …

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Debt Restructurings and the Trust Indenture Act

Halbhuber, Harald - 2016

This article demonstrates that the Trust Indenture Act, a Depression-era statute governing bond indentures, cannot have been intended to prohibit debt restructurings like the one in Marblegate. In that decision, a federal court recently held that a debt restructuring violated the non-impairment...

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Harvey V Beveridge : Common Intention Constructive Trusts in New Zealand

Bennett, Mark J. - 2018

property disputes compared with the equivalent English doctrine. This difference was not recognised in Harvey v Beveridge, and …

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Charitable Trusts : A Comparative Study of India, United Kingdom and the United States

Jain, Tarun - 2014

todays world.This paper seeks to examine the position and legal standpoint of a charitable trust across India, United Kingdom …

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Capitalism, Laws, and the Need for Trustworthy Institutions

Admati, Anat R. - 2021

This article responds to the question: "Capitalism: What has gone wrong, what needs to change and how to fix it" for a special volume on capitalism in Oxford Review of Economic Policy. Debates on capitalism get muddled by blind spots about essential institutions, particularly effective...

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Limitation Periods and Constructive Trusts in Malaysia

Liew, Ying Khai - 2021

Malaysia, as a former British colony, has inherited much of its trusts law from the English. One notoriously difficult area of law is constructive trusts. Precisely when and why constructive trusts arise are fundamental but imperfectly understood matters. This is unfortunate, because the lack of...

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Constructive Trusts and Discretion in Australia : Taking Stock

Liew, Ying Khai - 2021

In Australia, it is often thought that the decision whether to impose a constructive trust invariably attracts the exercise of remedial discretion. This paper argues that, in reality, the exercise of discretion is highly circumscribed. Further, where such discretion is exercised, it is useful...

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