
Property Trusts and Succession
Bloomsbury Professional (Publisher)
2nd Edition
Published on 31. August 2013
Book
Paperback/Softback
608 pages
978-1-78043-223-6 (ISBN)
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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. Previous edition ISBN: 9781845921538
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Edition
2nd Revised edition
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Edition type
Revised edition
Illustrations
illustrations, forms
Dimensions
Height: 234 mm
Width: 156 mm
Weight
895 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-78043-223-6 (9781780432236)
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George Gretton | Andrew Steven
Property, Trusts and Succession
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08/2017
3rd Edition
Bloomsbury Professional
€80.66
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Andrew J. M. Steven | Andrew Steven | Scott Wortley
Property Trusts and Succession
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01/2009
Tottel Publishing
€75.71
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Persons
George Gretton is Lord President Reid Chair of Law at the University of Edinburgh and Andrew Steven is a Senior Lecturer in Law at the University of Edinburgh. He is also a Scottish Law Commissioner.
Content
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 Land registration 7 Acquisition by involuntary transfer 8 Original acquisition 9 Co-ownership 10 Sexual property law 11 Possession 12 Servitudes 13 Real burdens 14 Landownership 15 Tenements and developments 16 Rivers, lochs and the sea 17 Neighbour law 18 Public access rights 19 Leases 20 Rights in security 21 Liferent 22 Trusts: what they are and how they are created 23 Trusts: their life in health and in sickness 24 Trusts: variation and termination 25 Succession: general issues 26 Legal rights 27 Testate succession 28 Intestate succession 29 Destinations 30 Execution of documents 31 Human rights