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The expression personal injury trust is a legal ''term of art'' found in the context of the modern English law of trusts (also applicable, where relevant, to Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland). A personal injury trust is a form of trust, a legally binding arrangement, where funds are held by persons called trustees for the benefit of another or others upon the terms of a document called a trust deed. :"A trust does not need to have a specific generic title or be one sort of trust or another at law to be a personal injury trust. It is the source of the trust fund which determines the trust's nature ... needs ... relevant circumstances and the relevant law should dictate the type of trust. But whatever legal type of trust it is, if it is funded by an award of compensation for a personal injury then it will be a personal injury trust."〔Coldrick on Personal Trusts - Fourth Edition (Ark Group 2008) Page 3〕 ==Special characteristics== A personal injury trust has several special characteristics: * It is constituted exclusively by funds derived from a payment (or payments) made in consequence of a personal injury e.g. compensation for a road traffic accident. * The person founding the trust (called the settlor) will be the injured party (that is except in limited circumstances involving an official compensatory body such as the Criminal Injuries Compensation Authority). * The person founding the trust from their payment must also be the sole beneficiary or at least one of the potential beneficiaries of the trust. These are important because it means that a trust does not need to have a generic title or label or be one particular type of trust or another at English law to be considered a personal injury trust. It is or is not a personal injury trust on account of its source and the involvement of the injured settlor. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Personal injury trust」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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