TY  - BOOK
AU  - Harris,Jonathan
TI  - The Hague Trusts Convention: scope, application, and preliminary issues 
SN  - 1841131105
AV  - K7222 .H37 2002
U1  - 340.959 22
PY  - 2002///
CY  - Oxford, Portland, Or.
PB  - Hart Pub.
KW  - Conflict of laws
KW  - Trusts and trustees
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (pages 497-509) and index; Table of Cases --; Table of Legislation --; Pt. 1; The Creation of Transnational Trusts: Launching the Rocket --; Introduction --; To What Extent are Matters of Capacity and Essential Validity Excluded from the Hague Trusts Convention? --; Capacity --; The Choice of Law Rule for Capacity Questions --; The Capacity of the Trustee --; The Capacity of the Beneficiary --; The Vesting of Property in the Trustee Inter Vivos --; Perpetuities and Accumulations --; The Situs of Equitable Interests and Dealings with Subsisting Equitable Interests --; Transfers of Subsisting Equitable Interests --; Sub-trusts --; Incompletely Constituted Trusts and Trusts of the Benefit of a Covenant --; Testamentary Trusts: Administration of Estates --; Testamentary Trusts: the Law Applicable to Succession --; Capacity to Create a Testamentary Trust --; Essential Validity and Testamentary Trusts --; Forced Heirship --; The Potential Impact of the Hague Convention on the Law Applicable to Succession to the Estates of Deceased Persons of 1 August 1989 --; Testamentary Powers of Appointment --; Matrimonial Property Regimes --; The Creation of Transnational Trusts in Offshore Jurisdictions --; Pt. 2; The Hague Convention on the Law Applicable to Trusts and on their Recognition --; Evolution and Application --; The Convention's Provisions --; Functions of the Convention --; Characteristics of the Trust --; Types of Trust Governed by the Conventiion --; Exclusion of Preliminary Matters; the Rocket-Launcher and the Rocket --; Non-trust Jurisdictions --; Express or Implied Choice of Law --; The Applicable Law in the Absence of Choice --; Scope of the Applicable Law --; Splitting the Applicable Law; the Administration of Trusts --; Changing the Applicable Law --; The Recognition of Trusts --; Registration of the Trust --; Right to Refuse Recognition to Trusts Objectively Connected to Non-trust States --; Freedom to Adopt more Liberal Recognition Rules --; Preservation of Mandatory Rules in Related Areas of Law --; International Mandatory Rules of the Forum --; Exclusion of Renvoi --; Public Policy --; Exclusion of Fiscal Matters --; Right to Extend Convention to other Types of Trust --; Right to Restrict Recognition to Trusts Governed by the Law of a Contracting State --; Time-frame of the Convention --; States Consisting of Several Territorial Units --; Application of Convention between Territorial Units of a State --; Relationship to other International Conventions --; Reservations to the Convention's Scope --; Accession of Member States --; Accession of Non-member States --; Application of the Convention to Selected Territorial Units of a State --; Entry into Force --; Denouncing the Convention --; Notification Process --; Conclusion --; Table of Current Ratification Status of the Convention --; App. 1; The Convention on the Law Applicable to Trusts and on Their Recognition --; App. 2; The Recognition of Trusts Act 1987 --; App. 3; The Explanatory Report to the Convention by Professor A von Overbeck --; Bibliography --; Index
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