Trusts

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1. Under Article 1440, what is the person who establishes a trust called?
2. Which distinction does Article 1441 make?
3. Under Article 1457, may an implied trust be proved by oral evidence?
4. An instrument clearly establishes property to be held by one person for another's benefit but never uses the technical …
5. Two unrelated persons jointly purchase property and agree that legal title will be placed in one person's name for thei…
6. A fiduciary secretly uses funds held for a beneficiary to buy land and puts the title in the fiduciary's own name. The …
7. A parent pays the purchase price of property and causes title to be conveyed to the parent's child. A litigant argues t…
8. Identify the trustor, trustee and beneficiary, and explain the basic express-versus-implied classification.
9. Distinguish the absence of mandatory technical wording for an express trust from the evidentiary rule governing an expr…
10. A person obtains property through fraud and insists that no trust can exist because the parties never intended one. Eva…
11. Does refusal by the named trustee necessarily cause an express trust to fail under Article1445?
12. Under Article1446, whose acceptance is necessary for the trust benefit?