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:	656
Product dimensions:	6.14(w) x 9.21(h) x 1.00(d)

About the Author

George L Gretton is Lord President Reid Professor of Law Emeritus at the University of Edinburgh and a former Scottish Law Commissioner.

Andrew J M Steven is Professor of Property Law at the University of Edinburgh and a former 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 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