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Wills and Trusts

Wills and Trusts provides a comprehensive commentary on all the main aspects of Wills and Trusts, together with the full text of all the relevant legislation.

Publication Language: English
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R1,960.00
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ISBN/ISSN: 060WILLSTRSYS

Product description

Wills and Trusts provides a comprehensive commentary on all the main aspects of Wills and Trusts, together with the full text of all the relevant legislation.

The emphasis is on practical advice for a range of circumstances in this dynamic field of law. The work covers all relevant areas, including the drafting and interpretation of wills, as well as the formation, administration and taxation of trusts. A wide selection of comprehensive precedents and checklists has been included as well as comprehensive indexes to both titles and cumulative tables of statutes and cases cited in the commentaries.

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Table of contents

Part A - Wills

Introduction to wills

Revocation

Interpretation of wills

The meanings of words and phrases

Drafting of wills

Part B - Trusts

Legal origin and historical development

Classification and definition

Legal nature of and parties to a trust

Formation of a trust

Administration of the trust

Variation, revocation and termination of a trust

Taxation of trusts

Ancillary

Specimen documents

Masters of the High Court

Calculation of Estate Duty

Statutes

Wills Act 7 of 1953

Income Tax Act 58 of 1962 (extracts)

Trust Property Control Act 57 of 1988