Business Law and the Regulation of
Business, 14th Edition
by Richard A. Mann
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,Table of Contents are given below
1. Introduction to Law.
2. Business Ethics.
3. Civil Dispute Resolution.
4. Constitutional Law.
5. Administrative Law.
6. Criminal Law.
7. Intentional Torts.
8. Negligence and Strict Liability.
9. Introduction to Contracts.
10. Mutual Assent.
11. Conduct Invalidating Assent.
12. Consideration.
13. Illegal Bargains.
14. Contractual Capacity.
15. Contracts in Writing.
16. Third Parties to Contracts.
17. Performance, Breach, and Discharge.
18. Contract Remedies.
19. Introduction to Sales and Leases.
20. Performance.
21. Transfer of Title and Risk of Loss.
22. Product Liability: Warranties and Strict Liability.
23. Sales Remedies.
24. Form and Content.
25. Transfer and Holder in Due Course.
26. Liability of Parties.
27. Bank Deposits, Collections, and Funds Transfers.
28. Relationship of Principal and Agent.
29. Relationship with Third Parties.
30. Formation and Internal Relations of General Partnerships.
31. Operation and Dissolution of General Partnerships.
32. Limited Partnerships and Limited Liability Companies.
33. Nature and Formation of Corporations.
34. Financial Structure of Corporations.
35. Management Structure of Corporations.
36. Fundamental Changes of Corporations.
37. Secured Transactions and Suretyship.
38. Bankruptcy.
39. Securities Regulation.
40. Intellectual Property.
41. Employment Law.
42. Antitrust.
43. Accountants' Legal Liability.
44. Consumer Protection.
45. Environmental Law.
46. International Business Law.
47. Introduction to Property, Property Insurance, Bailments,
and Documents of Title.
48. Interests in Real Property.
49. Transfer and Control of Real Property.
50. Trusts and Wills.
,Solutions Manual organized in reverse order, with the last chapter
displayed first, to ensure that all chapters are included in this
document. (Complete Chapters included Ch50-1)
Solution and Answer Guide
Mann/Roberts, Business Law and the Regulation of Business, 14e, (c) 2025, 9780357987650; Chapter 50:
Trusts and Wills
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Answers to Ethical Dilemma ...................................................................................................................... 1
Answers to Questions and Case Problems ................................................................................................ 1
Answers to “Taking Sides” Problems ....................................................................................................... 8
ANSWERS TO ETHICAL DILEMMA
When Should Life Support Cease?
1. Under what circumstances should life-sustaining mechanisms be removed? Who should make the decision?
2. How would your answer change if Andrews were discovered to be six months pregnant?
3. If attending physicians must make the decision, should they be subject to civil or criminal liability arising out of
their actions?
Answer:
1. In the absence of a document executed by the incapacitated individual, it has been suggested that close
family members, or attending physicians should be allowed to make the decision to withhold medical
treatment. The value in preserving life and dignity in life, the role of the family, physician, and court in
making life and death decisions are among the issues raised by the sad and disturbing facts presented.
2. The potential of pregnancy illustrates that the abortion issue may be embedded in a case involving the right
to die. As noted above, the Pennsylvania law would override Lesley’s directive to die, had she expressed
such an intent. If Lesley’s infant were born with a severe defect, (i.e., potentially from medication to
alleviate Lesley’s pain) could an action be maintained for a wrongful birth by relatives? Pregnancy adds
significant constitutional and ethical questions.
3. If attending physicians are placed in a position of having to make life and death decisions, strong
procedural guidance should be provided. The question raises the issue of how society should impose
accountability for these difficult decisions.
ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS AND CASE PROBLEMS
1. State and explain whether or not a trust is created in each of the following situations:
a. A declares herself trustee of “the bulk of my securities” in trust for B.
b. A, the owner of Blackacre, purports to convey to B in trust for C “a small part” of Blackacre.
c. A deposits $100,000 in a savings bank. He declares himself trustee of the deposit in trust to pay B $50,000
out of the deposit, reserving the power to withdraw from the deposit any amounts not in excess of $50,000.
Answer:
(a) A trust is not created because the description is so indefinite that the property cannot be ascertained.
(b) No trust is created because of the indefinite description.
, (c) A trust of the deposit is created of which B is beneficiary to the extent of $50,000. It does not fail
because the trustee has reserved power to withdraw property from the trust. Restatement of the Law of
Trusts, 2d, Section 58.
2. Testator gives property to Timothy in trust for Barney’s benefit, providing that Barney cannot assign or pledge
future trust income. Barney borrows money from Linda, assigning his future income under the trust for a stated
period. Can Linda obtain any judicial relief to prevent Barney from collecting this income? Explain.
Answer: No. This is called a spendthrift trust. The beneficiary cannot anticipate the income and his
creditors occupy no better position. This is a very common provision and is perhaps one of the reasons why
the trust was created.
3. Collins was trustee for Indolent under the will of Indolent’s father. Indolent, a middle-aged doctor, gave little
concern to the management of the trust fund, contenting himself with receiving the income paid to him by the
trustee. Among the assets of the trust were 100 shares of ABC Corporation and 100 shares of XYZ Corporation.
About two years before the termination of the trust, Collins purchased the ABC stock from the trust at a fair
price and after a full explanation to Indolent. At the same time but without saying anything to Indolent, he
purchased the XYZ stock at a price higher than its current market value. At the termination of the trust, both
stocks had advanced in market value well beyond the prices paid by Collins, and Indolent demanded that
Collins either account for this advance in the value of both stocks or replace the stocks. Discuss what Indolent’s
rights are. Explain.
Answer: Collins can probably keep the ABC Corporation stock, although it was unethical of him to deal
with the trust property, but he must account for or replace the XYZ Corporation stock.
There is a distinction to be made between transactions occurring directly between a trustee and his
beneficiary , and those transactions in which the trustee deals with himself with respect to the trust estate.
The latter class of transactions are voidable by the beneficiary at his election without giving any reason or
alleging any fraud, or any advantage or inadequacy of price. But where the trustee deals directly with
beneficiary the transaction is not by itself voidable at the election of the beneficiary but only presumed to
be invalid, which presumption may be rebutted. Owens v. Owens, 196 Va. 960.
4. Joe Brown gave $350,000 to his wife, Mary, with which to buy real property. They orally agreed that title to the
real property should be taken in the name of Mary Brown but that she should hold the property in trust for Joe
Brown. There were two witnesses to the oral agreement, both of whom are still living. Mary purchased the
property on September 2, and a deed to it with Mary Brown as the grantee was delivered.
Mary died ten years later, without a will. The real property is now worth $1 million. Joe Brown is claiming the
property as the beneficiary of a trust. Mary’s children are claiming that the property belongs to Mary’s estate
and have pleaded the statute of limitations and the statute of frauds as defenses to Joe’s claim. There is no
evidence to prove whether Mary would or would not have conveyed the property to Joe during her lifetime if
she had been requested to do so. Explain what Joe’s ownership rights are to this particular real property.
Answer: Joe Brown is the owner of the real property by virtue of a resulting trust and neither the statute of
limitations nor other equitable defenses are a bar to his claim. The statute of frauds provides that resulting
trusts, trusts created by construction, implication or operation of law need not be in writing, and may be
proved by parol evidence.
Joe Brown is the beneficiary of a purchase-money resulting trust. It is the duty of the holder of the legal
title under a resulting trust to convey the property to the person who paid the purchase price wherever he
demands such conveyance. Restatement, Trusts, 2d, Sections 404, 440.
Where a husband pays the purchase price for land that is transferred at his direction to his wife, parol
evidence is admissible to show that the payor intended that the transferee should not have the beneficial
interest in the property. In this problem the intention of the parties is expressly and clearly manifested by an
oral agreement between the husband and wife, to which there are two available witnesses. Restatement,
Trusts, 2d, Section 443; Scott, Trusts, 2d ed., Section 443.
