Trusts law is one of the most complicated areas of law to study. Concise and clear, this book offers a readily accessible account of this challenging subject. It identifies and discusses many analytical perspectives on trusts leading to greater understanding. The third edition of the book is fully revised to address recent developments in the law.

• 1: The nature of trusts


• 2: Policies shaping the express trust concept


• 3: Finding settlors' intentions


• 4: Promises to make trusts


• 5: Formalities


• 6: Charitable trusts


• 7: Stewardship


• 8: Fixed trusts


• 9: Dispositive discretions


• 10: Modification


• 11: Securing performance


• 12: Trustees' duties and beneficiaries' rights


• 13: Breach of trust and remedies


• 14: Liabilities of strangers


• 15: Constructive trusts 1


• 16: Resulting trusts


• 17: Constructive trusts 2


• 18: Constructive trusts 3

Simon Gardner has been a member of the Oxford University Law Faculty and a Fellow of Lincoln College since 1978, working and teaching primarily in the areas of Land Law, Trusts, and Criminal Law. He is the author of some fifty articles, principally in these areas, and of books in Land Law and Trusts. In recent years he been made an Academic Member of the Chancery Bar Association, and was given a Teaching Excellence Award by Oxford University.