Du Toit, FRahman, Latiefa (nee Manie)Faculty of Law2013-09-272024-11-062008/03/132008/03/132013-09-272024-11-062006https://hdl.handle.net/10566/18123Magister Legum - LLMAn aspect of the South African law of trusts which has, despite the abovementioned evolution of South African trust law, not been clarified, is the ambit of a trustee's fiduciary duty. This, however, is not only the position in South Africa, but Scotland and, until recently, England as well. It is opined that the "fiduciary obligation" is a concept in search of a principle. Thus, the aim of the present research was to define this concept in terms of the South African trust law context.enFiduciary trustsSouth AfricaThesisUniversity of the Western Cape