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  2. Asset-protection trust - Wikipedia

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    The spendthrift clause has three general exceptions to the protection afforded: the self-settled trusts (if the settlor of a trust is also a beneficiary of a trust), the case when a debtor is the sole beneficiary and the sole trustee of a trust, and the support payments (a court may order the trustee to satisfy a beneficiary's support ...

  3. Deed of trust (real estate) - Wikipedia

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    When the debt is fully paid, the beneficiary is required by law to promptly direct the trustee to transfer legal title to the property back to the trustor by reconveyance, thereby releasing the security for the debt. [6] Deeds of trust are the most common instrument used in the financing of real estate purchases in Alaska, Arizona, California ...

  4. Trust (law) - Wikipedia

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    Courts may generally recognize spendthrift clauses against trust beneficiaries and their creditors, but not against creditors of a settlor. [28] Wills and estate planning: Trusts frequently appear in wills (indeed, technically, the administration of every deceased's estate is a form of trust). Conventional wills typically leave assets to the ...

  5. Hypothec - Wikipedia

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    Hypothec (/ h aɪ ˈ p ɒ θ ɪ k, ˈ h aɪ p ɒ θ-/; German: Hypothek, French: hypothèque, from Lat. hypotheca, from Gk. ὑποθήκη: hypothēkē), sometimes tacit hypothec, is a term used in civil law systems (e.g. the law of most of Continental Europe) or to refer to a registered real security of a creditor over real estate, but under some jurisdictions it may additionally cover ships ...

  6. Quistclose trusts in English law - Wikipedia

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    A Quistclose trust is a method by which a creditor can hold a security interest in loans, through inserting a clause into the contract which limits the purposes for which the borrower can use the money. If the funds are used for a different purpose, a trust is created around the money for the benefit of the moneylender.

  7. Three certainties - Wikipedia

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    Certainty of subject matter: it must be clear what property is part of the trust and property, including sum of money, cannot be separated. Certainty of objects: it must be clear who the beneficiaries (objects) are. [3] Note: The 'Three certainties' rule is not novel to Knight v Knight. It was first stated in Wright v Atkyns, [4] by Earl Eldon LC.

  8. Constructive trust - Wikipedia

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    In trust law, a constructive trust is an equitable remedy imposed by a court to benefit a party that has been wrongfully deprived of its rights due to either a person obtaining or holding a legal property right which they should not possess due to unjust enrichment or interference, or due to a breach of fiduciary duty, which is intercausative with unjust enrichment and/or property interference.

  9. South African contract law - Wikipedia

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    Cancellation of the contract and certain forms of waiver of rights (e.g. waiver of an accrued right arising from a breach of contract, datio in solutum, release of the debtor, and a pactum de non-petendo) do not amount to variations. A non-variation clause is not enforced where its enforcement is against public policy or where estoppel can be ...