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Origin of Uses and Trusts in Law by Lawrence is a document available to read on EtoBox.
The document discusses the origin of trusts and uses in English common law. It argues that they arose not from Roman fideicommissum or Germanic Salmannus as some scholars have theorized, but rather from Islamic waqfs that English crusaders observed. Waqfs were a form of trust under Islamic law that allowed property to be dedicated to religious/charitable purposes or to benefit families/individuals in perpetuity. This provided a model for English landowners to circumvent burdens of feudal land ownership thro
- Author
- Lawrence
- Language
- EN