Full 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
Contents
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
