Modern American Law: A Systematic and Comprehensive Commentary on the Fundamental Principles of American Law and Procedure, Accompanied by Leading Illustrative Cases and Legal Forms, with a Rev. Ed. of Blackstone's Commentaries, Том 7

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Eugene Allen Gilmore, William Charles Wermuth
Blackstone Institute, 1914
 

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Same subject5 Hardship and unfairness
22
Same subject6 Mutuality
24
Same subject7 Doubtful title
26
Time not generally of the essence
27
How time may be made of the essence
28
Statute of FraudsDoctrine of part performance
29
Acts of part performancePayment
31
Same subjectContinuance in possession
32
Same subjectService
33
Partial specific performance with compensation
34
Specific performance against third persons
35
Same subjectEquitable easements
36
Same subjectEquitable easements continued
37
Death of parties to contract
38
Vendors lien
40
Waste or destruction of the premises
41
Summing up specific performance
42
CHAPTER III
44
Equitable waste
46
TrespassGrounds for injunction
47
Same subjectTitle in dispute Preliminary injunc tion
49
Same subjectMandatory injunction
50
Trespass to personal property
51
Same subjectDecreeAs to balancing of injuries
53
Trademarks Unfair competition
59
Other torts
60
Injunctions against actions and judgments at law
65
RescissionWhen for mutual mistake
73
SECTION PAGE 76 Mistake of law
77
not express the contract
78
Same subjectInequitable conduct of other party
79
Same subjectCompromises
80
Same subjectMistake of law in gifts
81
CHAPTER V
82
Same subjectOther illustrations
83
Same subjectNumerous plaintiffs
85
Same subjectLimitation on the principle
86
Cloud on title
88
Same subjectInstrument invalid on its face no cloud
89
Statutory suit to quiet title
91
Where partition is inconvenientOwelty of partition
92
Same subjectPartition sale
93
Partition of personal property
94
CHAPTER VI
95
Same subjectWhen the legal remedy is adequate
96
Exoneration
97
Contribution
98
Same subjectWhen the legal remedy is inadequate
99
PROVISIONAL REMEDIES THE AUXILIARY JURISDICTION SECTION PAGE 102 Provisional remedies
101
Same subjectSame thingDebt or duty
102
Same subjectPlaintiff a mere stakeholder
103
Same subjectPrivity between the claimants
104
Same subjectNo independent liability to either claimant
105
Receivers
106
Same subjectWhen appointed
107
Same subjectCorporation receivers
108
Same subjectThe receivers possession
110
Same subjectSuits against and by the receiver
111
Same subjectReceivers management of the property
112
The auxiliary jurisdictionDiscovery
114
Same subjectEffect of statutes upon the jurisdiction
115
PART II
117
CHAPTER VIII
119
Classes of trustsPassive trusts
120
Express active trusts
121
Parties to trusts
122
Descent and succession
123
What are public or charitable purposes
124
Creation of express trusts
125
Resulting and constructive trusts
126
Resulting trusts
127
Constructive trusts
128
Same subject
129
Duties of express trustees
130
Duty of care and diligence
131
The trustees compensation and allowance
132
Removal and appointment of trustees
133
CHAPTER IX
135
Her power of disposition and contract
136
The equity to a settlement
137
Interests arising from equitable conversion
138
Reconversion
139
Jurisdiction over infants
140
Jurisdiction over lunatics and idiots
141
CHAPTER X
143
American theoriesTitle theory states
144
Lien theory states
145
Foreclosure by sale
146
SECTION PAGE 152 When deeds are treated as mortgages
147
Conveyance of the mortgaged premises
148
Assignment of the mortgage
149
No mortgage without right of redemption
151
Who may redeem from the mortgage
152
Same subject
153
Marshalling of securities
154
Foreclosure where land has been sold in successive parcels
155
CHAPTER XI
157
Vendors lien
158
Same subject
159
Grantors reserved lien
160
Equitable interests arising from assignments
161
Sale or mortgage of after acquired personal property
162
PART III
164
Fraud actual and constructive
166
SECTION PAGE 174 Concealment and nondisclosure
167
Same subjectNondisclosure by fiduciaries
168
Inadequacy of consideration
169
Persons wholly or partially incompetent
170
Expectant heirs and reversions
171
Duress and undue influence
172
Fiduciary relationsTransactions presumed invalid
173
Ratification and acquiescence
174
Illegal contractsIn pari delicto rule
175
Same subjectParties not in pari delicto
176
CHAPTER XIII
177
Same subject
178
Applications of equitable estoppel
179
Penalties and forfeitures
180
Forfeitures
182
The doctrine of election
183
Same subjectDonor has a partial interest
184
Same subjectElection by widow as to dower
185
The doctrine of satisfaction
186
CHAPTER XIV
189
Same subject
191
Constructive notice1 By possession
192
Constructive notice 2 Notice by lis pendens
194
SECTION PAGE 202 Same subject3 Notice by reference in the chain of title
195
Same subject4 Notice by recording
196
To whom the record is notice
198
Other notice in place of a record
199
Constructive notice5 Notice to agent is notice to principal
200
Bona fide purchaserThe valuable consideration
201
Same subjectThe payment
202
Purchaser with notice from a bona fide purchaser
203
Is a quitclaim grantee a bona fide purchaser?
204
How the question of bona fide purchase may arise
205
Priorities
206
What equities are intrinsically superiorPurchase money mortgagesJudgment liens
207
Equity inferior because of conduct of holder thereof Effect of notice
208
Priorities on assignment of things in action or of a trust fund
210
CHAPTER XV
212
Equity will not suffer a wrong without a remedy
213
SECTION PAGE
223
LAW OF TRUSTS CHAPTER I
229
Technical meaning of word trust distinguished from popular
230
Same subjectContinued
231
Use and trust distinguished
233
The Statute of Uses
234
The effect of the Statute of Uses
235
American system of trusts taken bodily from the English
236
CHAPTER II
237
Bailment
238
Equitable charge
239
Assignment of a chose in action
240
Agency
241
Guardianship
242
CHAPTER III
243
Language necessary to create an express trust
244
Formality necessary to create a trust
246
What writing will satisfy the Statute of Frauds
248
Trusts created by will
249
When is consideration necessary?
250
The transfer of the propertya The owner makes a third person trustee
252
Same subjectb The owner makes himself a trustee
254
Are notice to and acceptance by the beneficiary necessary?
255
Same subject
257
Acceptance by trustee unnecessary to creation of trust
260
CHAPTER IV
262
Conveyance without con sideration
263
Imperfect or illegal declara tion of trust
265
Payment of purchase price by one title taken in the name of another
268
Statutory modifications
270
Payment of purchase price with fiduciary funds
272
General theory underlying constructive trusts
273
2222
275
Violation of voidable oral promise as fraud
277
Fraud presumeda Fiduciary transactions with respect to trust property
279
Same subjectb Contracts between persons upon an unequal footing
280
CHAPTER V
282
Effect of legislation on passive trusts
283
SECTION PAGE 43 Trust purposes valid at common law
284
Statutory restrictions of the purposes of real property trusts
285
Effect of attempt to create unauthorized trust
286
Restrictions on the purposes of trusts through the rule against perpetuities
288
Restrictions on the purposes of trusts through the rule against accumulations
290
The more common purposes of express private trusts
292
Trusts for married women
293
Spendthrift trusts
294
CHAPTER VI
297
History of charitable trusts
298
What purposes are charitable?
299
Attitude of equity toward charitable trusts with
301
The purposes of charitable trusts as affected by the rules against perpetuities and accumulations
303
CHAPTER VII
306
Who may be a trustee
307
Trust will not fail for want of a trustee
308
Appointment of the trustee
309
Acceptance or refusal by trustee
310
The trustees bond
311
The powers of a trustee classified
313
The more common express powers of a trustee
315
Powers of joint trustees
317
Delegation of trust power
319
THE TRUSTEE HIS DUTIES RIGHTS LIABILITIES
321
Same subjecte Possession and control of the trust
328
The trustees liabilitiesa For his own acts
334
CHAPTER IX
342
CHAPTER X
350
Same subjectd May obtain change of control
356
Essentials to recovery for benefitsUnjust enrich
372
Must there be diminution of the plantiffs estate?
378
Deceit
385
Same subjectJoint tortfeasors
388
Interference with business
394
CHAPTER IV
401
Same subjectGrounds of reversal
407
RECOVERY FOR BENEFITS CONFERRED WITHOUT REQUEST SECTION PAGE 43 In general
414
Same subject
415
Same subject
416
Preservation of life
417
Preservation of property
418
Same subjectProperty lost and found
419
CHAPTER VI
421
Effect of payors knowledge or belief
422
Same subjectForgotten facts
423
Payors assumption of riskCompromise
424
Same subjectIllustrations
425
When defendant may justly retain benefit
426
Same subject Plaintiff negligent and defendants position changed
428
B Particular Applications 59 Gift bestowed under mistake
429
Incidental benefits
430
Mistake as to formation of contract
431
Mistake as to subject matter of contract
432
Mistake as to title of vendor
433
Improvements upon real property
434
RECOVERY FOR BENEFITS CONFERRED UNDER CON
437
Same subjectRecovery for improvements on land
443
Same subjectConclusion
449
Bibliography 361
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LAW OF ESTOPPEL INTRODUCTION SECTION PAGE 1 Definition of estoppel
453
CHAPTER I
455
Final judgment
456
Identity of cause in issue
457
Parties
458
Privies
460
Jurisdiction
461
Judgments in rem
463
Foreign judgments
464
CHAPTER II
467
Parties and privies
468
Extent of estoppel
469
Same subjectContinued
470
Title by estoppel
471
Effect of common law warranty
473
Estoppel between grantor and grantee
474
Between first and second grantee from same grantor
475
SECTION PAGE
477
CHAPTER IV
483
Must be reliance
490
Landlord and tenant
496
Leading Illustrative Cases Table of Contents
531
TITLE OF CASE PAGE
535
LEADING ILLUSTRATIVE CASES
539
PART I
548
Tayloe
554
Jackson et al v Stevenson
564
TITLE OF CASE PAGE
572
CHAPTER IV
582
CHAPTER V
590
CHAPTER VI
597
Farmers Loan Trust Co v Grape Creek Coal Company
605
Berton
618
OTHER EQUITABLE PROPERTY RIGHTS ADMINISTRA
623
CHAPTER X
630
PART III
640
CHAPTER XIII
649
Beekman
656
CHAPTER XV
664
THE TRUSTEE HIS APPOINTMENT QUALIFICATION
710
In Re Arguellos Estate
718
CHAPTER X
729
Brown
735
Gleason
741
Index
785

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Сторінка 243 - Car. 2, c. 3, s. 7, that all declarations or creations of trusts, or confidences of any lands, tenements, or hereditaments, shall be manifested and proved by some writing, signed by the party who is by law enabled to declare such trust, or by his last will in writing, or else they shall be utterly void and of none effect...
Сторінка 256 - A deposit by one person of his own money, in his own name as trustee for another, standing alone, does not establish an irrevocable trust during the lifetime of the depositor. It is a tentative trust merely, revocable at will, until the depositor dies or completes the gift in his lifetime by some unequivocal act or declaration such as delivery of the passbook or notice to the beneficiary.
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