The author of the present paper has been asked to discuss R. Helmholz, R. Zimmermann (eds.), Itinera Fiduciae: Trust and Treuhand in Historical Perspective (Berlin, Duncker & Humblot, 1998). He especially focuses on the possible (historical) ties between trusts and European Private Law or ius commune. The central question of his paper is whether or not the trust is a typical Anglo-American legal concept which must be placed outside the European ius-commune tradition.
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