express trust

…the law of trusts, the express trust resisted any attempt to defeat its basic division of legal from equitable title. Indeed, trusts were increasingly used as a means of holding newly important aggregations of personal property. Similarly, the increasing complexity of land-use conflicts led to an ever-growing body of local…

…created trusts, usually called “express trusts,” are used in a wide variety of contexts, most notably in family settlements and in charitable gifts. Courts may also impose trusts on people who have not consciously created them in order to remedy a legal wrong (“constructive trusts”).