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Property, Trusts and Succession provides full coverage of the property, trusts and succession parts of the LLB syllabus in Scottish universities within 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 fully revised
Fifth Edition includes:
- Coverage of the Moveable Transactions (Scotland) Act 2023 and its implications for the laws of assignation and rights in security
- Consideration of the Trusts and Succession (Scotland) Act 2024, the most significant trusts legislation for over a century
- A new chapter on public law and landownership which covers issues such as planning, licensing and environmental law restrictions
While aimed primarily at undergraduates, this important title is also a useful source of reference to practitioners seeking an introduction to this area of the law.
This title is included in Bloomsbury Professional's Scottish Law Service and Scottish Law Student Service.
List of 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. 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 law and landownership
20. Public access rights
21. Leases
22. Rights in security
23. Liferent
24. Trusts: what they are and how they are created
25. Trusts: their life in health and in sickness
26. Trusts: variation and termination
27. Succession: general issues
28. Legal rights
29. Testate succession
30. Intestate succession
31. Destinations
32. Execution of documents
33. Human rights
Appendix on the feudal system
About the author
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.
Summary
Property, Trusts and Succession provides full coverage of the property, trusts and succession parts of the LLB syllabus in Scottish universities within 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 fully revised Fifth Edition includes:
- Coverage of the Moveable Transactions (Scotland) Act 2023 and its implications for the laws of assignation and rights in security
- Consideration of the Trusts and Succession (Scotland) Act 2024, the most significant trusts legislation for over a century
- A new chapter on public law and landownership which covers issues such as planning, licensing and environmental law restrictions
While aimed primarily at undergraduates, this important title is also a useful source of reference to practitioners seeking an introduction to this area of the law.
This title is included in Bloomsbury Professional's Scottish Law Service and Scottish Law Student Service.
