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Also, the common law only recognized certain kinds of cases; for example, the common law courts did not recognize the trust deed.... The historical origin of equity in English legal system dates back to the late 13th and 14th centuries.... The paper attempts to understand the origin and development of equity as a source of law in the English legal system and analyze the significance of rules of equity and equitable doctrines and remedies in legal proceedings today....
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The "title split" of trust law may be generalized colloquially as follows: legal title involves control, management, and possession, while equitable (beneficial) title involves "benefit," "enjoyment," and "use.... ifferences between Equity and Trust LawsTo understand how the laws of equity were derived from the trust laws of the English court system, it is important to define each.... (Wikipedia: Equity) Trust laws were derived from this definition of equity system of law governance and are described asIn common law legal systems, a trust is a relationship in which a person or entity (the trustee) holds legal title to certain property (the trust property or trust corpus) but is bound by a fiduciary duty to exercise that legal control for the benefit of one or more individuals or organizations (the beneficiary), who hold "beneficial" or "equitable" title....
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Equity governs the trust law in such a sense and applies to a wide range of situations and cases such as family relationships, charities, pensioners etc.... The courts deal with the formalities of property law and secret trusts, although trust law applies to all such situations, and understanding of trust law applies to express trusts, fixed trusts, discretionary trusts, resulting trusts, constructive trusts, charitable trusts, proprietary and personal solutions....
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He seemed to interpret this to mean on the one hand, that all remedies were available regardless of the origin of the cause of action.... The paper "Equity, Conscience, And Unjust Enrichment" discusses the main thrust of the argument for integrating the systems of equity and common law that derives from the common sense position that coherently integrating the two branches and ensure the success of the modern common law.... In a majority decision, the House of Lords in Westdeutsche Landesbank Girozentrale v Islington London Borough Council [1996] demonstrated that the 'differences between common law ....
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trust law applies whenever one person has placed trust and confidence in another person to manage his or her affairs.... the trust is a form of ownership that developed in England through the courts of Chancery.... The full force of the law of equity governs such relationships and the trust now provides a mechanism for a number of situations, family relationships, charities, pension funds, to name but a few.... An expression, which has been commonly used to describe the way in which equity functions is that equity ‘mitigates the rigor of the common law' so that the letter of argument not applied in such a strict way that it may cause injustice....
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This paper "Key Aspects of Property law" describes aspects involved in the property law.... This paper outlines equity law, Equitable jurisdiction, the role of trusts and other branches, an express trust, resulting trust, three elements of unjust enrichment.... The following are the different aspects of learning property law: Equity law is the branch of the English law which has been developed many years ago because people in lawsuits would complain to the king about the very callous rules of the common law which were in the way of truly achieving justice....
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Their task was to ensure that the common law, enforced in the King's name, was applied with justice in individual cases.... The author states that in the fourteenth century the common law was overly rigid and unable to provide justice in individual cases.... Particular cases of injustice arose because: juries were bribed or inhibited; juries inhibited law in civil cases because the judge had to spend a lot of time explaining the law to them....
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This work called "The Main Purposes of Formality Requirements" describes the formality requirements in the law of Trusts.... An example of the conscious creation of a trust can be illustrated as follows.... The author takes into account that the three formalities prescribed under the Property Act 1925 fulfill the purposes of the prevention of fraud....
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