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 Sexual 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

Promotional Information

This title provides full coverage of the property, trusts and succession parts of the LLB syllabus in Scotland in one convenient volume.

About the Author

Andrew Steven is a Senior Lecturer in Law at the University of Edinburgh. He is also a Scottish Law Commissioner. George Gretton is Lord President Reid Chair of Law at the University of Edinburgh.