TY  - CHAP
ID  - pittir37716
UR  - http://d-scholarship-dev.library.pitt.edu/37716/
A1  - Oh, Peter B.
Y1  - 2015///
N2  - The business trust arguably is the most prominent and yet enigmatic organizational form used today. The problem is that no one knows exactly how prevalent business trusts are, much less why they are the preferred vehicle for a broad and diverse range of transactions. This chapter sheds some light on the business trust by examining its early history at common law, its subsequent mutation into modern statutory and contractarian forms, as well as some of its most common functions. The more closely we scrutinize the business trust, the more apparent it becomes that the pertinent question about business trusts is not why they exist, but rather why they are not used to an even greater extent than what we suspect.
PB  - Edward Elgar Publishing
KW  - Alternative Entities
KW  -  Business Trusts
KW  -  Statutory Business Trusts
SN  - 978 1 78347 439 4
TI  - Business trusts
SP  - 268
AV  - public
EP  - 279
T2  - Research Handbook on Partnerships, LLCs and Alternative Forms of Business Organizations
ER  -