express trust

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property law

  • Hugo Grotius
    In property law: Marxism, liberalism, and the law

    …the law of trusts, the express trust resisted any attempt to defeat its basic division of legal from equitable title. Indeed, trusts were increasingly used as a means of holding newly important aggregations of personal property. Similarly, the increasing complexity of land-use conflicts led to an ever-growing body of local…

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trust law

  • In trust

    …created trusts, usually called “express trusts,” are used in a wide variety of contexts, most notably in family settlements and in charitable gifts. Courts may also impose trusts on people who have not consciously created them in order to remedy a legal wrong (“constructive trusts”).

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