Blueprints: Equity and Trusts

Blueprints provide a unique plan for studying the law, giving a visual overview of the vital building blocks of each topic and the various outside influences that come together in the study of law. This series enables the reader to place everything within memorable context and is useful in providing an overview of the law. Each text offers a clear understanding of legal study and an engaging introduction to each subject; presenting the study of law as both an academic subject and a force in society. The texts map to undergraduate law degree programmes and are tailored for use harmoniously alongside core law material.- Table of cases and statutes - Acknowledgements - How to use this guide - What is a Blueprint? - Introduction - Book map - Study skills PART 1: Equity: general principles - Chapter 1: Nature of equity - Chapter 2: Equitable remedies and doctrines PART 2: Nature of a trust and creation of express trusts - Chapter 3: The concept of a trust - Chapter 4: Creating the trust: certainties - Chapter 5: Creating the trust: formalities - Chapter 6: Completely and incompletely constituted trusts - Chapter 7: Creating the trust: secret and half secret trusts; mutual wills PART 3: Resulting trusts, constructive trusts, trusts of the home - Chapter 8: Resulting trusts - Chapter 9: Constructive trusts; proprietary estoppel - Chapter 10: Trusts of the home PART 4: Trusts for purposes - Chapter 11: Charitable trusts - Chapter 12: The beneficiary principle and non-charitable-purpose trusts PART 5: Management of trusts and breach of trust - Chapter 13: Trusteeship - Chapter 14: Duty of investment - Chapter 15: Management of changes to the beneficial entitlement - Chapter 16: Breach of trust and remedies - Glossary - Index