Written in an enthusiastic and student-friendly style, Todd & Wilson's Textbook on Trusts explains the basic principles and rules of trusts law in a clear and unintimidating way. The book delivers focused, intellectually stimulating content, and gives in-depth coverage of the key areas taught on the undergraduate course.

Written in an enthusiastic and student-friendly style, 'Todd & Wilson's Textbook on Trusts & Equity' explains the basic principles and rules of trusts law in a clear and unintimidating way. The book delivers focused, intellectually stimulating content, and gives in-depth coverage of the key areas taught on the undergraduate course.

Written in an enthusiastic and student-friendly style, Todd & Wilson's Textbook on Trusts & Equity explains the basic principles and rules of trusts law in a clear and unintimidating way. The book delivers focused, intellectually stimulating content, and gives in-depth coverage of the key areas taught on the undergraduate course.

Students commonly experience difficulties with the law of trusts because it seems to be further removed from the everyday world than other subjects. The terminology is confusing, the concepts are abstract, and certain types of transaction are complex and obscure. Textbook on Trusts istherefore designed to alleviate students' difficulties by stating the law as clearly as possible, without sacrificing clarity of exposition in the more complex areas. The authors concentrate on the principles of the subject and confine detailed coverage to those areas which are commonly covered intrusts courses at degree level. The main changes in this fifth edition have taken place within the chapter on History and Outline of Equitable Jurisdiction, and on Remedies. Consideration has also been given to contracts and trusts in light of the enactment of the Contracts (Rights of Third Parties)Act 1999. Additions have been made to the chapters on trusteeship to accommodate the new Trustee Delegation Act 1999 and the Law Commission's proposals concerning the powers and duties of trustees. Coverage has also been expanded to include pension funds, as a reflection of their growing importancein the context of trusts.

This book argues that there are three dividing lines regarding modes and consequences of property transfers which should not be conflated by comparative lawyers, namely, intent alone versus intent plus, unitary approach versus separatist approach, and causality versus abstraction. Unlike Chinese law, English law takes a non-unified approach not only in the stage of transfer but also in the stage of restitution, where the consequence in relation to the property right transferred under a flawed underlying basis can be purely causal, purely abstract, and abstract in common law but causal in equity. Nevertheless, abstraction is normatively more justifiable than causality.