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Estates and Trusts

Vanderbilt University Law School

1999

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International Recognition And Adaptation Of Trusts: The Influence Of The Hague Convention, Adair Dyere Jan 1999

International Recognition And Adaptation Of Trusts: The Influence Of The Hague Convention, Adair Dyere

Vanderbilt Journal of Transnational Law

The process of bringing English-style trusts into systems that do not have a similar device is fraught with difficulties. This is especially true with respect to efforts directed towards the creation of a domestic trust law within such a system, but it is also true about the adaptation of legal institutions that is necessary in order to recognize trusts created under foreign law, in accordance with Article 11 of the Hague Trusts Convention. Thus far, it can be said that no country that did not have trusts before the Hague Trusts Convention has reacted to the Convention by adopting a …


The Civil Law Trust, Maurizio Lupoi Jan 1999

The Civil Law Trust, Maurizio Lupoi

Vanderbilt Journal of Transnational Law

It is generally held that trusts are incompatible with the basic assumptions of civil law systems. In order to discuss this statement one would have to inquire, first, what is meant by the term "trusts"; second, what assumed common characteristics of the civil law systems are being envisaged and declared to bein compatible with trusts; and third, why those characteristics should be incompatible with trusts. It is also commonly held that the Hague Convention of 1984 on the law applicable to and the recognition of trusts concerns only those trusts that are foreign to the jurisdiction in which the rules …