Trusts

Trusts

Express Trusts #

  • Introduction to Trusts

    A brief primer on the historical development of the "use" as a precursor to the modern trust and some basic principles applicable to modern trusts.

  • Duthie v Gallagher & Duthie

    A claim by the plaintiffs as beneficiaries that the defendant trustees were in breach of trust for their failure to sell the trust property for at a good market price, before real estate prices dropped dramatically.

  • Iwasaki v R

    Iwasaki had a large tract of land liquidated by the Custodian of Enemy Property. He alleged this was a breach of trust, and that the authorizing orders in council were invalid.

  • The Unlawful Dispossession of Japanese Canadians

    A recent legal-historical study of the internment and dispossession of Japanese Canadians arguing that the federal government had established a kind of trust in the course of its dealings with their property.