Property, Trusts and Succession

by George Gretton, Andrew Steven

Overview

This text provides full coverage of the property, trusts and succession parts of the LLB syllabus in Scottish universities 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.

The fifth edition is revised throughout. It covers key recent case law and major legislation developments. These include the Moveable Transactions (Scotland) Act 2023 and the Trusts and Succession (Scotland) Act 2024.

As well as thorough coverage of these important new pieces of legislation the fifth edition also includes a new chapter on public law and landownership, which considers issues such as planning, licensing and environmental law restrictions.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781526527448
Publisher:	Bloomsbury Academic
Publication date:	10/03/2024
Edition description:	5th ed.
Pages:	728
Product dimensions:	6.25(w) x 9.20(h) x 1.55(d)

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.

Andrew Steven is Professor of Property Law at the University of Edinburgh. From 2011 to 2019 he was a Scottish Law Commissioner.

Table 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 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