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Authors: | Molloy, Anthony Graham, Toby |
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Affiliation: | *Anthony Molloy QC, Shortland Chambers, Auckland, Email: apmolloyqc@shortlandchambers.co.nz |
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Abstract: | Professor Maitland liked to point out that the beginnings ofthe trust are discernible in a slight but unbroken threadof cases, beginning while the Conquest is yet recent.1This forensic Methuselah retains its vitality today becausereams of contractual boilerplate cannot compete with the efficiencyof equity's default rules. These were famously expressed bythe great Chief Judge of the New York Court of Appeals—laterto become a Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States—BenjaminCardozo, in Meinhard v. Salmon, 249 NY 458, 464 (1928):Manyforms of conduct permissible in a workaday world for those actingat arm's length, are |
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