ABSTRACT Relatively little has been written about the detailed workings of the court of chancery after the restoration. Even less is known about the doctrines of the chancery in the eighteenth century. Yet social historians of this period have relied on legal sources to generate a narrative which suggests that the landed classes were instrumental in determining the content of the rules governing family settlements. This article seeks to situate that narrative in the adjudicative context. Through a close textual analysis of the case law, supplemented by archival material, the article argues that, whilst successive chancellors did give voice to the underlying intentions of the settlor (and thus to the estate preservative policies of their class), the settlor’s intention was not the sole prescribing law when construing family settlements.

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大法官信托的构建和执行，c。1660–1750

摘要 关于大法官法院在修复后的详细运作情况，鲜有报道。对 18 世纪的大法官教义知之甚少。然而，这一时期的社会历史学家依靠法律来源来产生一种叙述，表明土地阶级在确定管理家庭定居点的规则内容方面发挥了重要作用。本文试图将这种叙述置于裁决语境中。通过对判例法的仔细文本分析，并辅以档案材料，文章认为，虽然历任财政大臣确实表达了委托人的潜在意图（因此也表达了他们阶级的遗产保护政策），但委托人的意图是在解释家庭定居点时，不是唯一的规定法律。