Professor George Gretton, Andrew Steven

Property, Trusts and Succession

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Produktbeschreibung

Property, Trusts and Succession, Fourth Edition 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. The Fourth Edition of this popular text takes account of significant recent developments, including the draft Moveable Transactions (Scotland) Bill and the ongoing land reform agenda. There is a new section on succession to digital assets. The key contents also includes: - Personal and real rights, and types of property - Ownership and how it is transferred - Prescription - 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 is also a useful source of reference for practitioners seeking a modern introduction to this area of law. George L Gretton is Lord President Reid Professor of Law Emeritus at the University of Edinburgh and a former Scottish Law Commissioner. Andrew J M Steven is Professor of Property Law at the University of Edinburgh and a former Scottish Law Commissioner.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
• 4 ed
• Seitenzahl: 656
• Erscheinungstermin: 25. Oktober 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 157mm x 34mm
• Gewicht: 996g
• ISBN-13: 9781526518743
• ISBN-10: 1526518740
• Artikelnr.: 60621323

Autorenporträt

George Gretton held the Lord President Reid chair of law at Edinburgh University from 1994 to his retirement in 2016, when he became an Emeritus Professor. Between 2006 and 2011 he was a member of the Scottish Law Commission. He has broad interests in law, including property, trusts and succession. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh and is a Writer to the Signet.

Inhaltsangabe

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. Relationship 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