Talk:Trust (law) non-USA

This is the note which I placed on the page which is now Trust (Law) USA, upon moving it:

'''I think my decision to move this page deserves some justification.

'''This article may be - indeed appears to be - good in terms of content: but if it is, it is good only with regard to the USA's legal systems. Much of the content is wrong in the context of trust law more directly based on the "English model", as it applies in England and Wales, the Isle of Man, Channel Islands, Bermuda, Canada, (some of) the Caribbean, (some of) the Pacific Islands, Australia and New Zealand - as well as several civil law nations with statutory trusts laws.

'''This difficulty asserts itself from the very first sentence, where trusts are conceived as a branch of contract law.

'''I felt that any attempt to reconcile the two legal systems in one article was doomed to failure, and would only lead to understandable disputes with the existing authors. My solution is to move the existing Trusts (property) to Trust (Law) USA and to create the new page Trust (Law) non-USA (a title which might itself promote some debate) to deal with trusts in the English-model jurisdictions.

I will make the obvious amendments on Trust (disambiguation), and in the first sentence of this article.' AndyJones 19:27, 10 September 2005 (UTC)

AndyJones 20:37, 10 September 2005 (UTC)

I've proof read this page for grammar, spelling and punctuation (using British English), but not for style. It's obviously been written in an informal style intentionally, so I've left it as is. Also removed the 'copyediting' flag.

Archie the cat 16:41, 17 October 2005 (UTC)

Merge suggestion
Can we keep any discussion of the possible merge at the other talk page please, to keep things tidy? Thanks. Nuge talk 03:55, 20 April 2006 (UTC)