Snell's Equity

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Description
2018 marked the 150th anniversary of the original publication of Edmund Snell's The Principles of Equity. We dedicate this edition to the celebration of that milestone. English private law largely lacks the general legislation and restatements that elsewhere give the law structure and offer lawyers a point of access and overview. In our system that is the function of texts. Snell's Equity is one of the great nineteenth century treatises that brought order to English law. That initial achievement should not be underestimated given the nature of the raw material that needed to be synthesised, the complex and unnatural relationship between law and equity, and the particular difficulty of many of the topics. Snell's own involvement ended with that first edition and a succession of editors assumed responsibility for updating and revising the text down to the present 34th edition. Their achievement lay partly in tending the garden through an era of climate change. Snell's Equity was born in 1868, just a moment before the principal Judicature reforms. Successive editions stand as a developing record of profound transformations in the body of law originally developed in the Court of Chancery.
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Contents
Part I - Equity and Equities
Chapter 01 : The nature, History and Court of Equity
Chapter 02 : Equitable Property
Chapter 03 : Assignment of Choses in Action
Chapter 04 : Priorities
Part II - maxims and Doctrines
Chapter 05 : The Maxims of Equity
Chapter 06 : The Equitable doctrines
Part III - Equitable Protection
Chapter 07 : Fiduciaries
Chapter 08 : Fraud, Undue Influence and Unconscionable Transactions
Chapter 09 : Breach of Confidence
Chapter 10 : Powers-General Principles
Chapter 11 : Specific Powers: Powers of Appointment
Chapter 12 : Estoppel
Chapter 13 : Penalties and Forfeiture
Part IV - Equitable Remedies
Chapter 14 : Introduction
Chapter 15 : Rescission
Chapter 16 : Rectification
Chapter 17 : Specific performance
Chapter 18 : Injunctions
Chapter 19 : Receivers
Chapter 20 : Personal Monetary Claims
Part V - Trusts
Chapter 21 : Definition and Classification of Trusts
Chapter 22 : Private Express Trusts
Chapter 23 : Charitable Trusts
Chapter 24 : Trusts Arising to enforce an informally Expresses Intention
Chapter 25 : Resulting Trusts
Chapter 26 : Trusts arising from wrongstrusts arising from Wrongs
Chapter 27 : Appointment, Retirement and removal of trustees
Chapter 28 : Specific powers: The Administrative powers of Trustees
Chapter 29 : The Duties and Discretions of Trustees
Chapter 30 : Breach of Trust
Part VI - Administration of Assets
Chapter 31 : Collection and Realisation of Assets
Chapter 32 : Payments of Debts
Chapter 33 : Distribution of Assets
Chapter 34 : Remedies
Chapter 35 : Legacies
Part VII - Securities
Chapter 36 : The Nature and Classification of Securities
Chapter 37 : Creation and setting aside of mortgages
Chapter 38 : The rights and interest of the mortgagor
Chapter 39 : The rights and interest of the mortagee
Chapter 40 : Floating Charges
Chapter 41 : Priorities of Mortgages
Chapter 42 : Discharge of Mortgages
Chapter 43 : Pledges
Chapter 44 : Lines
Chapter 45 : Suretyship
Index
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Author Details
John McGhee QC, MA (Oxon) of Linclon's Inn, Barrister
Steven Elliott QC, BA (Hons), JD (Hons), DPhil (Oxon) of Lincoln's Inn, Barrister