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Trusts and ownership: a common law perspective

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In the trust institution introduced by the new Czech Civil Code, ‘ownership’ of trust ‘property’ is vested in no-one. What motivates this provision seems to be the view that the common law trust involves a division of ownership, but that such is prohibited in Czech law generally. The purpose of this article is to demonstrate that the idea of the common law trust involving a division of ownership is false. Indeed, English law does not even have a concept of ownership. It instead deals with r...

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Peer review status:
Peer reviewed

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Institution:
University of Oxford
Oxford college:
Brasenose College
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Author
Publisher:
Kluwer Law International Publisher's website
Journal:
European Review of Private Law Journal website
Volume:
24
Issue:
6
Pages:
951-972
Publication date:
2016-11-01
Acceptance date:
2016-10-03
ISSN:
0928-9801
Pubs id:
pubs:661703
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uuid:a9aef7f5-15eb-4443-8638-b239ab8c146b
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pubs:661703
Source identifiers:
661703
Deposit date:
2016-11-25

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