This edition of a book previously in the Modern Legal Studies series, has been greatly expanded for use by practitioners dealing with cases involving constructive trusts. Case law since the last edition has made the subject an important one.
The first practitioner text on this fast developing aspect of trusts law
Previous edition regularly judicially cited in Australia and New Zealand, and recently in England
Includes a discussion of Commonwealth authorities.
Introduction. ;Constructive trusts imposed as a result of fraudulent, unconscionable or inequitable conduct. ;Constructive trusts imposed as a result of breach of fiduciary duty. ;Constructive trusts imposed as a result of a disposition of trust property in breach of trust. ;Secret trusts and mutual wills. ;Constructive trusts imposed upon a vendor who has entered into a contract of sale which is capable of being specifically enforced.; Constructive trusts imposed to give effect to incomplete transfers.