The trust instrument must show certainty of intention to create a trust, certainty of what the subject matter of the trust is, and certainty of who the beneficiaries (or objects) are.
Disasters can increase social confidence and certainty.
Prior to Hunter, a valid trust required three certainties – certainty of intention (that the donor intended to make a trust) certainty of subject matter (that the property to make up the trust was identifiable) and certainty of object (that the beneficiaries were identifiable).
And yet on Tuesday, the ECB's failure to explain the decision beyond the issue of broken trust, and its lack of certainty on its permanence, means it will likely rumble on into the summer and beyond.
In a fascinating commentary published in the Dec. 14 issue of JAMA, Allan S. Detsky, M.D., Ph.D., contends that the No. 1 thing consumers want from the health care system is, quite simply, to be better when ill. Detsky says patients want certain qualities from their health care providers, including timeliness, kindness, hope and certainty, and a trusting relationship.
We shall illustrate, with case studies about smart grid actors, the growing need for distrust, and trust as a "certainty equivalent" [21], to manage rising degrees of contingency, uncertainty, and risk, particularly from a consumer perspective.
Especially since Sept. 11, he said, he has yearned for ways to gain a measure of certainty and trust, and says he would like to see a system of authentication for digital objects.
The trust fund "has the potential to bring fairness and certainty to an asbestos litigation system that is currently out of control," Leigh Ann Pusey, senior vice president of the American Insurance Association, said in a statement.
Yet the complex technical and normative challenges certification aims to address, and its engagement of diverse and distant actors, are more about trust than certainty.
