Succession LawBasics
3rd Edition
Published on 24. July 2012
Book
Paperback/Softback
140 pages
978-0-414-01860-0 (ISBN)
Description
Succession LawBasics 3rd Edition provides students with an insightful guide to the Scots law of succession, trusts and executry, including coverage of wills, survivorship and legal rights. The second edition has an extended section on executry practice. An excellent piece of background reading, the work is presented in a clear and comprehensible fashion and represents an ideal foundation on which the reader can build a greater understanding of the subjects.
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Edition
3rd edition
Language
English
Place of publication
Edinburgh
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Sweet & Maxwell Ltd
Target group
Professional and scholarly
ISBN-13
978-0-414-01860-0 (9780414018600)
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Schweitzer Classification
Persons
Alex Gibb teaches contract law at Aberdeen College.
Content
Foreword by Alasdair B. Gordon, author of the 2nd Edition
1. Introduction
2. Survivorship
3. Legal Rights
4. Intestate Succession
5. Essential and Formal Validity
6. Common Testamentary Provisions
7. Residuary and Substitutionary Provisions
8. Vesting and Accreditation
9. Alterations and Additions
10. Will Substitutes
11. Interpretation of Wills
12. The Executor's Role and Duties
13. Trusts
1. Introduction
2. Survivorship
3. Legal Rights
4. Intestate Succession
5. Essential and Formal Validity
6. Common Testamentary Provisions
7. Residuary and Substitutionary Provisions
8. Vesting and Accreditation
9. Alterations and Additions
10. Will Substitutes
11. Interpretation of Wills
12. The Executor's Role and Duties
13. Trusts