Property, Trusts and Succession: Third Edition

ISBN-13: 9781526500564 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 624 str.

George Gretton; Andrew Steven

Opis

This title provides full coverage of the property, trusts and succession parts of the LLB syllabus in Scotland in one convenient volume. The relevant rules of statute and common law are surveyed and frequent examples used, making this a highly practical and accessible text. Key contents include: Personal and real rights, and types of property; Ownership and how it is transferred; Land registration; Possession; Subordinate real rights, including servitudes, real burdens, leases and securities; Proper and improper liferents; Trusts: constitution, administration and termination; Testate succession; Intestate succession; Execution of documents; Human rights; Appendix on the feudal system. Whilst aimed primarily at undergraduates, this important title will also prove a useful source of reference to practitioners seeking an introduction to this area of law.

Spis treści

1 Introduction 2 Real rights 3 Ownership 4 Acquisition by voluntary transfer: the general principles 5 Acquisition by voluntary transfer: the rules for the various types of property 6 Prescription 7 Land registration 8 Acquisition by involuntary transfer 9 Original acquisition 10 Co-ownership 11 Sexual property law 12 Possession 13 Servitudes 14 Real burdens 15 Landownership 16 Tenements and developments 17 Rivers, lochs and the sea 18 Neighbour law 19 Public access rights 20 Leases 21 Rights in security 22 Liferent 23 Trusts: what they are and how they are created 24 Trusts: their life in health and in sickness 25 Trusts: variation and termination 26 Succession: general issues 27 Legal rights 28 Testate succession 29 Intestate succession 30 Destinations 31 Execution of documents 32 Human rights Appendix: The feudal system