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The Transformation Of Trusts As A Legal Category, 1800-1914, Gregory Alexander
The Transformation Of Trusts As A Legal Category, 1800-1914, Gregory Alexander
Gregory S Alexander
Sometimes we are least aware of that which most affects us. So it seems with respect to legal categories. Lawyers do not take legal categories very seriously today. But they should. Legal categories are central to legal reasoning; indeed it is almost impossible to imagine legal reasoning without the use of categories. Categorical thinking affects every area of law. The purpose of this article is to illuminate, through a case-study, the contingent and ideological character of legal categories. It focuses on the development of trusts into and then as a discrete legal category during the period between the beginning of …
The Dead Hand And The Law Of Trusts In The Nineteenth Century, Gregory Alexander
The Dead Hand And The Law Of Trusts In The Nineteenth Century, Gregory Alexander
Gregory S Alexander
This article discusses a basic paradox at the core of liberal property law. Individual freedom to dispose of consolidated bundles of rights cannot simultaneously be allowed and fully maintained. If the donor of a property interest tries to restrict the donee's freedom to dispose of that interest, the legal system, in deciding whether to enforce or void that restriction, must resolve whose freedom it will protect, that of the donor or that of the donee. Although post-realist American property lawyers acknowledge this conflict, at least nominally, it did not emerge in legal consciousness in so starkly visible a form until …