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Property, Trusts and Succession
Description
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.
Table of Contents
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
Product details
| Published | 11 Aug 2017 |
|---|---|
| Format | Paperback |
| Edition | 3rd |
| Extent | 624 |
| ISBN | 9781526500564 |
| Imprint | Bloomsbury Professional |
| Dimensions | 234 x 156 mm |
| Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
