Article on Social Control of Wealth in Antebellum New York

William P. LaPiana recently published an Article entitled, Social Control of Wealth in Antebellum New York, 42 ACTEC Law Journal 279 (2017). Provided below is an abstract of the Article:

The trust provisions of the Revised Statutes of 1830 were a radical transformation of the law of trusts as it htne existed in the Anglo-American legal world. The Revised Statutes as a whole and the story of their adoption has not received a thorough treatment in many decades, and this paper certainly is not an attempt to fill that gap. Rather, it illustrates the radical nature of the trust provisions of the Revised Statutes by examining the first case to apply them to a will contest. Some background, however, is still necessary.