Course-focused and comprehensive, Borkowski’s Textbook on Roman Law provide an accessible overview of the key areas on the law curriculum. Borkowski’s Textbook on Roman Law provides an account of Roman private law and civil procedure, with coverage of all key topics, including the Roman legal system, and the law of persons, property, and obligations. The text sets the law in its social and historical context, and demonstrates the impact of Roman law on our modern legal systems. For the sixth edition, the text has been comprehensively reviewed and references to a wide range of scholarly texts have been included, to ground the account of Roman law firmly in contemporary scholarship. Examples from legal practice have been added where these illuminate legal doctrine. The text has been updated to reflect current scholarly opinions. References to the latest legal scholarship on Roman law have been included to reflect the most recent developments in the field.
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Sarah Worthington
Celebrated for their conceptual clarity, titles in the Clarendon Law Series offer concise, accessible overviews of major fields of law and legal thought. Equity sets out the basic principles of Equity, and illustrates them by reference to commercial and domestic examples of their operation. The text, which is the second edition, describes the role of Equity in creating and developing rights and obligations, remedies and procedures that differ in important ways from those provided by the Common Law itself. This edition offers a reworking of the material traditionally described as Equity. In doing this, it provides an examination of the fundamental principles underpinning Equity's most significant incursions into the modern law of property, contract, tort, and unjust enrichment. In addition, it exposes the possibilities, and the need, for coherent substantive integration of Common Law and Equity. Such integration is perceived in this text as crucial to the continuing success of the modern Common Law legal system.
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16. Resulting and constructive trusts
Without assuming prior legal knowledge, books in the Directions series introduce and guide readers through key points of law and legal debate. Questions, diagrams and exercises help readers to engage fully with each subject and check their understanding as they progress. A resulting trust refers to a trust under which, in certain circumstances, the beneficial interest jumps back to the settlor. Resulting trusts are created in accordance with the presumed intention of the settlor or donor and are enforced against the personal wishes of the constructive trustee. Under s 53(2) of the Law of Property Act 1925, the creation or operation of resulting, implied or constructive trusts is not subject to any written formality. This chapter deals with resulting and constructive trusts, and how they differ from each other. It examines how the law of resulting trusts applies to the many contexts in which they occur, the nature of constructive trusts, presumed resulting trusts on a voluntary transfer, constructive trusts in comparison with fiduciary liability to account, illegality and the presumption of a resulting trust, the presumption of advancement and the range of situations in which constructive trusts are to be found. The chapter also discusses presumed resulting trusts where express trusts do not exhaust the whole of the beneficial interest.
