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A civil wrong or wrong is a cause of action under civil law. Types include tort, breach of contract and breach of trust. [1]Something that amounts to a civil wrong is wrongful.
The Breach of Trust, an 1869 novel by Harriette Woods Baker; Breach of Trust, a 1996 novel by Bonnie MacDougal; Breach of Trust, a 1999 novel by Michael Kasner writing as Don Pendleton, the 39th installment in the Stony Man series; Breach of Trust: How Washington Turns Outsiders Into Insiders, a 2003 book by U.S. Senator Tom Coburn
Chart of a trust. Trustees [2] have certain duties (some of which are fiduciary). These include the duty to: Carry out the expressed terms of the trust instrument. [3] Trustees are bound to act in accordance with the terms of the trusts upon which the trustee holds trust property, and commit a breach of trust by departing from the terms of the ...
It is a common belief that dishonest or knowing assistance originates from Lord Selbourne's judgment in Barnes v Addy: [1] [S]trangers are not to be made constructive trustees merely because they act as the agents of trustees in transactions, … unless those agents received and become chargeable with some part of the trust property, or unless they assist with knowledge in a dishonest and ...
In criminal law, misappropriation is the intentional, illegal use of the property or funds of another person for one's own use or other unauthorized purpose, particularly by a public official, a trustee of a trust, an executor or administrator of a deceased person's estate or by any person with a responsibility to care for and protect another's assets (a fiduciary duty).
Breach of contract is a legal cause of action and a type of civil wrong, in which a binding agreement or bargained-for exchange is not honored by one or more of the parties to the contract by non-performance or interference with the other party's performance.
JH Langbein ‘Questioning the Trust Law Duty of Loyalty’ (2005) 114 Yale Law Journal 929–990. A Hicks, ‘The Trustee Act 2000 and the Modern Meaning of Investment’ (2001) 15 (4) Trust Law International 203; DA De Mott, 'Beyond Metaphor: An Analysis of Fiduciary Obligation' (1988) 5 Duke Law Journal 879.
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.