Frederic William Maitland – Trust and Corporation

Maitland’s achievement in ‘Trust and Corporation’ is very gear; he explains with great clarity the difficult history and jurisprudence of trusts law in a radically short compass, and then investigates theories of legal personality, suggesting how the institutions of private associational law fits in...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Getzler, J
Other Authors: Allan, J
Format: Journal article
Published: TC Beirne School of Law, University of Queensland 2016
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Summary:Maitland’s achievement in ‘Trust and Corporation’ is very gear; he explains with great clarity the difficult history and jurisprudence of trusts law in a radically short compass, and then investigates theories of legal personality, suggesting how the institutions of private associational law fits into a wider scape of political and social evolution.