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{{ | {{a|trust|}}Under {{tag|English law}} there is a distinction between [[legal ownership]] and [[beneficial ownership]]. The legal owner is the person in whose name [[Title transfer|title]] to the asset is formally registered. The beneficial owner is the person (and in most cases, it’s the same person) who has the effective benefit of the asset: not just its economic risks and rewards, but the effective right to deal with it absolutely. | ||
This might seem an artificial, somewhat fatuous distinction — certainly, continental lawyers think so: there’s no concept of that separation at all in the [[civil law]] tradition<ref>But just try asking them to explain therefore what the hell they think a [[fiduciary]] is.</ref> — but it is this very distinction on which the idea of a {{t|trust}} is founded. The [[Trustee]] legally owns the trust property, but it does not form part of the trustee’s [[insolvency estate]]. | This might seem an artificial, somewhat fatuous distinction — certainly, continental lawyers think so: there’s no concept of that separation at all in the [[civil law]] tradition<ref>But just try asking them to explain therefore what the hell they think a [[fiduciary]] is.</ref> — but it is this very distinction on which the idea of a {{t|trust}} is founded. The [[Trustee]] legally owns the trust property, but it does not form part of the trustee’s [[insolvency estate]]. | ||