History
The law of trusts developed in the Middle Ages from the time of the crusades under the jurisdiction of the King of England. The "common law" regarded property as an indivisible entity, as it had been done through Roman law and the continental version of civil law. Where it seemed "inequitable" (i.e. unfair) to let someone with legal title hold onto it, the King's representative, the Lord Chancellor who established the Courts of Chancery, had the discretion to declare that the real owner "in equity" (i.e. in all fairness) was another person.
- fideicommissum
- Feudalism and crusades
- Court of Chancery
- Charity and the British Museum
- Judicature Acts
- Indian Trusts Act 1882
- Settled Land Acts 1882-1925
- Welfare state and retirement
- UK company law and UK insolvency law
- Offshore tax haven and tax avoidance
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