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The Private Trustee In Victorian England
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Book Synopsis The Private Trustee in Victorian England by : Chantal Stebbings
Download or read book The Private Trustee in Victorian England written by Chantal Stebbings and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A study of the legal responses to the duties carried out by nineteenth-century trustees.
Book Synopsis The Origins of Modern Financial Crime by : Sarah Wilson
Download or read book The Origins of Modern Financial Crime written by Sarah Wilson and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-06-05 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The recent global financial crisis has been characterised as a turning point in the way we respond to financial crime. Focusing on this change and ‘crime in the commercial sphere’, this text considers the legal and economic dimensions of financial crime and its significance in societal consciousness in twenty-first century Britain. Considering how strongly criminal enforcement specifically features in identifying the post-crisis years as a ‘turning point’, it argues that nineteenth-century encounters with financial crime were transformative for contemporary British societal perceptions of ‘crime’ and its perpetrators, and have lasting resonance for legal responses and societal reactions today. The analysis in this text focuses primarily on how Victorian society perceived and responded to crime and its perpetrators, with its reactions to financial crime specifically couched within this. It is proposed that examining how financial misconduct became recognised as crime during Victorian times makes this an important contribution to nineteenth-century history. Beyond this, the analysis underlines that a historical perspective is essential for comprehending current issues raised by the ‘fight’ against financial crime, represented and analysed in law and criminology as matters of enormous intellectual and practical significance, even helping to illuminate the benefits and potential pitfalls which can be encountered in current moves for extending the reach of criminal liability for financial misconduct. Sarah Wilson’s text on this highly topical issue will be essential reading for criminologists, legal scholars and historians alike. It will also be of great interest to the general reader. The Origins of Modern Financial Crime was short-listed for the Wadsworth Prize 2015.
Book Synopsis Deserted Wives and Economic Divorce in 19th-Century England and Wales by : Jennifer Aston
Download or read book Deserted Wives and Economic Divorce in 19th-Century England and Wales written by Jennifer Aston and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2024-11-14 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book considers Section 21 of the Divorce and Matrimonial Causes Act 1857 and its significant impact on previously invisible married women in the 19th century. Tens of thousands of women used this little-known section of the Act to apply for orders from local magistrates' courts to reclaim their rights of testation, inheritance, property ownership, and (dependent on local franchise qualifications) ability to vote. By examining the orders that were made and considering the women who applied for them, the book challenges the mistaken belief that Victorian England and Wales were nations of married, cohabiting couples. The detailed statistical analysis and rich case studies presented here provide a totally new perspective on the legal status and experiences of married women in England and Wales. Although many thousands of orders were granted between 1858 and 1900, their details remain unknown and unexamined, primarily because census records did not consistently record dissolved marriages and there is no central index of applications made. Using sources including court records, parliamentary papers, newspaper reports, census returns, probate records and trade directories, this book reconstructs the successful – and unsuccessful – experiences of women applying to magistrates' courts and the Court for Divorce and Matrimonial Causes to protect their assets across regions and decades.
Book Synopsis Law, Literature, and the Transmission of Culture in England, 1837–1925 by : Cathrine O. Frank
Download or read book Law, Literature, and the Transmission of Culture in England, 1837–1925 written by Cathrine O. Frank and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-12-05 with total page 546 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Focusing on the last will and testament as a legal, literary, and cultural document, Cathrine O. Frank examines fiction of the Victorian and Edwardian eras alongside actual wills, legal manuals relating to their creation, case law regarding their administration, and contemporary accounts of curious wills in periodicals. Her study begins with the Wills Act of 1837 and poses two basic questions: What picture of Victorian culture and personal subjectivity emerges from competing legal and literary narratives about the will, and how does the shift from realist to modernist representations of the will accentuate a growing divergence between law and literature? Frank’s examination of works by Emily Brontë, George Eliot, Charles Dickens, Wilkie Collins, Anthony Trollope, Samuel Butler, Arnold Bennett, John Galsworthy, and E.M. Forster reveals the shared rhetorical and cultural significance of the will in law and literature while also highlighting the competition between these discourses to structure a social order that emphasized self-determinism yet viewed individuals in relationship to the broader community. Her study contributes to our knowledge of the cultural significance of Victorian wills and creates intellectual bridges between the Victorian and Edwardian periods that will interest scholars from a variety of disciplines who are concerned with the laws, literature, and history of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
Book Synopsis Capitalism Before Corporations by : ANDREAS. TELEVANTOS
Download or read book Capitalism Before Corporations written by ANDREAS. TELEVANTOS and published by . This book was released on 2021-01-27 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book examines the extent to which English law facilitated trade before it was possible to create corporations for purely private business purposes. It looks at the extent to which the common law recognised the associational rights of business persons, and its relation with contemporary moral and economic thinking.
Book Synopsis Defences in Equity by : Paul S Davies
Download or read book Defences in Equity written by Paul S Davies and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2018-05-03 with total page 391 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is the fourth in a series of essay collections on defences in private law. It addresses defences to liability arising in equity. The essays range from those adopting a mainly doctrinal perspective to others that explore the law from a more philosophical perspective. Some essays concentrate on specific defences, while others are concerned with the links between defences, or with how defences relate to the structure of the law of equity generally. One aim of the book is to shed light on equitable doctrines by analysing them through the lens of defences. The essays offer original contributions to this complex, important but neglected field of scholarly investigation. The contributors – judges, practitioners and academics – are all distinguished jurists. The essays are addressed to all of the major common law jurisdictions.
Download or read book Boardroom Scandal written by James Taylor and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2013-04-25 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Should businessmen who commit fraud go to prison? This question has been asked repeatedly since 2008. It was also raised in nineteenth-century Britain when the spread of corporate capitalism created enormous new opportunities for dishonesty. Historians have presented Victorian Britain as a haven for white-collar criminals, beneficiaries of a prejudiced criminal justice system which only dealt harshly with offences by the poor. Boardroom Scandal challenges these beliefs. Based on an unparalleled sample of legal cases - many examined here for the first time - James Taylor presents a radical new interpretation of the relationship between capitalism and the law. Initially, there were no criminal sanctions against publishing false prospectuses, concealing losses in balance sheets, and even misappropriating company money. But parliament became convinced of the need to criminalize these practices to protect the culture of stock market investment on which mid-Victorian prosperity increasingly rested. Persuading judges to play along was harder, with many invoking the principle of caveat emptor to exonerate defendants. But by the end of the century, successful prosecutions of company executives were commonplace. These trials performed multiple functions: they stabilized confidence in times of crisis; they dramatized the class blindness of the law; and they were increasingly seen as essential as faith in a self-regulating economy ebbed. The criminalization of fraud, therefore, has far-reaching implications for our understanding of nineteenth-century Britain. It also has relevance today in light of the on-going economic crisis and the issues it raises regarding business ethics and the role of the state.
Book Synopsis The Commercial Uses of Trusts by : Ruiqiao Zhang
Download or read book The Commercial Uses of Trusts written by Ruiqiao Zhang and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2024-10-31 with total page 173 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides a systematic and critical analysis of the role trusts play in modern commercial markets. Commercial trusts are complex and ever-evolving, and a reassessment of the traditional legal norms relating to them is much needed in order to provide new doctrinal insights. The book does just that: focusing on trusts in the UK, while drawing on developments in European jurisdictions and in China. It presents a thought-provoking assessment and a unified understanding of commercial trusts.
Book Synopsis Legal Foundations of Tribunals in Nineteenth Century England by : Chantal Stebbings
Download or read book Legal Foundations of Tribunals in Nineteenth Century England written by Chantal Stebbings and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2007-01-18 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nineteenth-century governments faced considerable challenges from the rapid, novel and profound changes in social and economic conditions resulting from the industrial revolution. In the context of an increasingly sophisticated and complex government, from the 1830s the specialist and largely lay statutory tribunal was conceived and adopted as the principal method of both implementing the new regulatory legislation and resolving disputes. The tribunal's legal nature and procedures, and its place in the machinery of justice, were debated and refined throughout the Victorian period. In examining this process, this 2007 book explains the interaction between legal constraints, social and economic demand and political expediency that gave rise to this form of dispute resolution. It reveals the imagination and creativity of the legislators who drew on diverse legal institutions and values to create the new tribunals, and shows how the modern difficulties of legal classification were largely the result of the institution's nineteenth-century development.
Book Synopsis New Perspectives on Property Law by : Alastair Hudson
Download or read book New Perspectives on Property Law written by Alastair Hudson and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2012-10-02 with total page 474 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The essays in this collection consider the fundamental concepts of property and obligations in law. Ideas of property and of obligations are central, organising concepts within law but are nevertheless liable to fragmentation and esoteric development when applied in particular contexts.
Book Synopsis Pensions, Contracts and Trusts: Legal Issues on Decision Making by : David Pollard
Download or read book Pensions, Contracts and Trusts: Legal Issues on Decision Making written by David Pollard and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2020-05-10 with total page 641 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a topical area for the courts, which have moved to imply various limitations or tests on decision makers powers and when they can be challenged. This is made more difficult for lay users and lawyers alike in that implied restrictions are (by definition) not apparent from the words of the relevant contract itself. These limits are applied by the courts not just to fiduciaries (such as trustees or directors), but also to non-fiduciaries (eg banks and employers). Recent case law includes: · Pitt v Holt (SC) – trustee decisions (2013) · Braganza (SC) – contractual discretions (2015) · Eclairs (SC) – directors powers: proper purposes (2015) · IBM UK Holdings v Dalgleish (CA) – employer powers under pension plans (2017) · British Airways (CA)– pension plan – proper purposes (2018) The book reviews the relevant doctrines of: · Interpretation rules · Proper purposes; · Due consideration of relevant factors · Full perversity (no reasonable decision maker)
Book Synopsis Women and Their Money 1700-1950 by : Anne Laurence
Download or read book Women and Their Money 1700-1950 written by Anne Laurence and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2008-11-20 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book, the first of its kind, will be of interest across several disciplines including economics, economic history, business history, British history and women/gender history The fact that the essays reach beyond Britain and include work on Germany, Australia, Italy, Canada, Sweden and the West Indies will stimulate interest throughout (and even beyond) the English speaking world There is a growing interest in the study of women’s economic activity, which reflects the recognition that economics and economic/business history are not gender neutral subjects
Book Synopsis Equity and Administration by : P. G. Turner
Download or read book Equity and Administration written by P. G. Turner and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2016-05-26 with total page 601 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Each generation of lawyers in common law systems faces an important question: what is the nature of equity as developed in English law and inherited by other common law jurisdictions? While some traditional explanations of equity remain useful - including the understanding of equity as a system that qualifies the legal rights people ordinarily have under judge-made law and under legislation - other common explanations are unhelpful or misleading. This volume considers a distinct and little noticed view of equity. By examining the ways in which courts of equity have addressed a range of practical problems regarding the administration of deliberately created schemes for the management of others' affairs, modern equity can be seen to have a strongly facilitative character. The extent and limits on this characterisation of equity are explored in chapters covering equity's attitude to administration in various public and private settings in common law systems.
Book Synopsis Trusts and Modern Wealth Management by : Richard C. Nolan
Download or read book Trusts and Modern Wealth Management written by Richard C. Nolan and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2018-05-31 with total page 609 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Trust law has grown and developed over recent years through the continued ingenuity of practitioners and the provision of innovative new trust laws by offshore jurisdictions. The wealth managed through the medium of trust law has also changed in recent years, as increasingly it has come from the newly rich of Asia. This brings distinctive issues to the fore: the role of settlors, family members and trusted advisors in trust administration; the position of trustees in relation to instructions coming from such persons; and an increased desire for confidentiality in trust administration and the settlement of trust disputes. This collection focuses on trusts which are deliberately created to manage wealth and the concomitant issues such trusts raise in other areas of law. Essays from leading members of the judiciary, practitioners and academics explore these developments and their implications for the users of trust law and for society in general.
Book Synopsis Encyclopedia of Business Ethics and Society by : Robert W. Kolb
Download or read book Encyclopedia of Business Ethics and Society written by Robert W. Kolb and published by SAGE. This book was released on 2008 with total page 2593 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This encyclopedia spans the relationships among business, ethics and society, with an emphasis on business ethics and the role of business in society.
Book Synopsis Making Legal History by : Anthony Musson
Download or read book Making Legal History written by Anthony Musson and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2012-01-26 with total page 331 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first book to address the way that the broad and inclusive subject of legal history is researched and written.
Download or read book Trusts Law written by Graham Moffat and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2005-09-29 with total page 1110 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With its unique contextual emphasis and authoritative commentary, Trusts Law: Text and Materials is a book that no serious undergraduate on trust law courses can afford to be without. The book is divided into four main parts: trusts and the preservation of family wealth; trusts and family breakdown; trusts and commerce; and trusts and non-profit activity. Within each of these parts, leading cases, statutes, and historical and research materials are placed alongside the narrative of the author's text to give emphasis both to general theories of trust concepts and to the practical operation of trusts. Attention is also given to important themes such as the developing relationship between trusts law and other areas of private law such as the Law of Restitution. This new edition takes account of all relevant judicial and legislative developments since the third edition, and expands discussion of key themes in current developments of the law.
