Document Type
Article
Publication Date
2011
ISSN
0006-8047
Publisher
Boston University School of Law
Language
en-US
Abstract
Trust is an expectation that others will act in one’s own interest. Trust also has a specialized meaning in Anglo-American law, denoting an arrangement by which land or other property is managed by one party, a trustee, on behalf of another party, a beneficiary.1 Fiduciary duties are duties enforced by law and imposed on persons in certain relationships requiring them to act entirely in the interest of another, a beneficiary, and not in their own interest.2 This Essay is about the role that trust and fiduciary duty played in our legal system five centuries ago and more.
Recommended Citation
David J. Seipp,
Trust and Fiduciary Duty in the Early Common Law
,
in
91
Boston University Law Review
1011
(2011).
Available at:
https://scholarship.law.bu.edu/faculty_scholarship/1565
