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{{a|cass|}}How one goes about holding assets in safekeeping differs according to your jurisdiction and yea, even the legal tradition from which your system of laws sprang.
{{a|cass|}}How one goes about holding assets in [[safekeeping]] differs according to your [[jurisdiction]] and yea, even the legal tradition from which your basic system of law sprang.
 
On the one hand, there are those (er, ... ''us'') crazy Commonwealth folk, all still to some degree tethered to the emotional apron strings of mother {{tag|England}}<ref>Yes, {{tag|America}}, that includes you, however much you might deny it. ''And'' you, {{tag|Australia}}.</ref> with their [[common law]] and its bonkers notions of [[precedent]], the [[Courts of chancery|separation of legal and beneficial interests]]
 
On the other, those tiresomely sensible continentals with their romanesque belief in order, straight roads, principled-based rule-making and the primacy of legislation that hasn’t just been made up on the hoof by some guy in a horse-hair wig. Curiously they have arrived at very different models of custody of freely transferable securities.


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*[[Courts of chancery]]
*[[Doctrine of precedent]]
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