Pawlowski, Mark ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5473-5809 and Brown, James (2012) Testamentary trusts and the rule against capricious purposes: An underlying rationale? Trust Law International, 26 (3). pp. 109-119. ISSN 0962-2624

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Abstract

The article examines the tension between two competing aspects of public policy, namely, the desire to avoid dispositions which have no useful purpose and the need to preserve the testator's freedom to dispose of his property as he wishes. The writers' conclusion is that the English, Scottish, Commonwealth and American case law demonstrates an underlying rationale for the rule against capricious purposes grounded in the notion that the law will not enforce testamentary trusts for private purposes which amount to an uneconomic and extravagant deployment of resources which either manifestly impair the economic interests of the beneficiaries and/or adversely impact on the community generally.

Item Type:	Article
Uncontrolled Keywords:	trusts, capricious purposes, private purpose trusts, testamentary freedom, public policy
Subjects:	K Law > KD England and Wales
Pre-2014 Departments:	School of Humanities & Social Sciences > Department of Law & Criminology School of Humanities & Social Sciences
Related URLs:	Publisher Organisation
Last Modified:	14 Oct 2016 09:22
URI:	http://gala.gre.ac.uk/id/eprint/9122

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