Pearce & Stevens' Trusts and Equitable Obligations

Robert Pearce is Professor Emeritus of the University of Buckingham, and of the University of Wales Trinity Saint David. He is former Vice-Chancellor of the University of Wales, Lampeter, sometime Professor of the Law of Property and Equity at the University of Buckingham, and has held academic appointments at the University of Newcastle upon Tyne, the University of Lancaster, University College Cork, and the University of Western Ontario. He is Visiting Professor atthe University of Gloucestershire.Warren Barr is Professor in Law and Head of Department (Liverpool Law School), School of Law and Social Justice, the University of Liverpool. He is a current member, and ex-Director, of the Charity Law and Policy Unit, Liverpool Law School. He is also Principal Fellow of the Higher Education Academy, and was named Law Teacher of the Year 2006.

• Part I: The Importance of Equity1: What is equity?2: Equitable obligations3: Equity and the management of propertyPart II: Creating the Relationship4: Certainty5: Constitution of trusts6: Formalities7: Policy limitsPart III: Resulting and Constructive Trusts8: Resulting trusts9: Constructive trustsPart IV: Equity in Action10: Interests in the family home11: Evolution of rights in the family home12: Proprietary estoppel13: Clubs and societies14: Wills and inheritancePart V: Charities15: The role and status of charities16: Charitable trusts17: Cy-pres: redistributing funds and changing purposes18: Control and Regulation of charitiesPart VI: Allocation of Benefit19: Choosing who benefits20: Fixed trusts21: Powers of appointment22: Discretionary trusts23: Powers of advancement and maintenance24: Variation of beneficial trustsPart VII: Managing Trusts25: Management and delegation26: Investment27: Changing the trusteesPart VIII: Checks, Controls, and Remedies28: Control and accountability29: Remedies against the trustee for breach of trust30: Fiduciary duties31: Remedies against strangers to the trust32: TracingPart IX: Equity's Contribution to Remedies33: Rescission, rectification and account34: Specific performance35: Injunctions

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