Property law: general

Property, Trusts and Succession, Fourth Edition provides full coverage of the property, trusts and succession parts of the LLB syllabus in Scotland in one convenient volume.

Drawing on politics, religion, law, literature, and philosophy, this interdisciplinary study is a sequel to Mark Fortier's bookThe Culture of Equity in Early Modern England (Ashgate, 2006).

Intellectual Property, Cultural Property and Intangible Cultural Heritage examines various notions of property in relation to intangible cultural heritage and discusses how these ideas are employed in rights discourses by governments and indigenous and local communities around the world.

This volume unravels the underlying power relations that are masked in the present discourse of ecological sustainability and conflicts over natural resources.

This handbook brings together diverse perspectives, major topics, and multiple approaches to one of the biggest legal institutions in society: property.

This book brings together a wide range of contributors from across the common law world to identify and debate the principal moral and systemic challenges facing private law in the remaining part of the twenty-first century.

Questioning a literary history that, since Ian Watt's Rise of the Novel, has privileged the courtship plot, Kelly Hager proposes an equally powerful but overlooked narrative focusing on the failed marriage.

This collection presents an innovative series of essays about the medieval culture of Feud and Violence.

Looking at the experiences of women in early modern Portugal in the context of crime and forgiveness, this study demonstrates the extent to which judicial and quasi-judicial records can be used to examine the implications of crime in women's lives, whether as victims or culprits.

Landmark Cases in Land Law is the sixth volume in the Landmark Cases series of collected essays on leading cases (previous volumes in the series having covered Restitution, Contract, Tort, Equity and Family Law).

Crises are never the best of times and the era of the Great Western Schism (1378-1417) easily qualifies as one of the worst of times.

Collected Studies CS1071The central figure in this volume is that of Gratian, whose monumental compilation of canon law sparked off the revival of legal studies in the medieval West.

The Rating and Council Tax Pocket Book is a concise, practical guide to the legal and practical issues surrounding non-domestic rates and council tax.

Having arriving in the Province of Maine in 1641 with a brief to create both government and law for the fledgling colony, Thomas Gorges later recorded his policy as having 'steared as neere as we could to the course of Ingland'.

Unlike existing textbooks written for law students on specific subjects impacting real estate transactions, Real Estate Law: Fundamentals for The Development Process uses "e;The Development Process"e; as a framework for understanding how the U.

When compared to terrorism, drugs and violent crimes that occupy the news today art is not considered as important.

Historically, at English common law, the death penalty was mandatory for the crime of murder and other violent felonies.

Focusing on the last will and testament as a legal, literary, and cultural document, Cathrine O.

More than half of the world's population lives in cities; by 2050, it will be more than three quarters.

Die Untersuchung beschäftigt sich mit der Frage, inwieweit die rechtliche Steuerung durch privatrechtliche Instrumente geeignet ist, das energie- und klimapolitische Ziel der Endenergieeffizienzsteigerung zu unterstützen und welche rechtlichen Lösungsansätze sich anbieten, um Hindernissen auf dem Weg zur Zielerreichung adäquat begegnen zu können.

Das Lehrbuch ist zur Vorlesungsbegleitung im Pflichtfach bestimmt und behandelt dabei die in Übungen und Examensaufgaben hauptsächlich behandelten Fragenkreise des Sachenrechts.

What does it mean to own something?

This book explores the impacts of current mining licensing regimes in Africa and how they influence sustainable development principles.

Looking at the experiences of women in early modern Portugal in the context of crime and forgiveness, this study demonstrates the extent to which judicial and quasi-judicial records can be used to examine the implications of crime in women's lives, whether as victims or culprits.

This book constitutes volume two of a two volume examination of development community land issues in Southern Africa.

This was the seigneurial system of land tenure, whose legal structure was transferred alsmot unaltered from France to the New World.

This title was first published in 2002: Becoming Delinquent: British and European Youth, 1650-1950 provides a critical synthesis of the growing body of work on the history of British and European juvenile delinquency.

In recent years, the private rented sector has overtaken social housing to become the main housing provider with some of the worse housing conditions that are linked to preventable health inequalities.

This is the second edition of the leading authority on the law of proprietary estoppel, which has been cited by courts across the common law world.

Law mattered in later medieval England and Ireland.

Law schools are failing both their staff and students by requiring them to prize reason and rationality and to suppress or ignore emotions.

A Guide to Landlord and Tenant Law provides a strong foundation in commercial landlord and tenant, and housing law.

This book analyses the history of the international patent regime and the life science industries, both of which can be traced back to the late 19th century.

Landlord and Tenant Law contains summaries, exercises and workshops to help the reader to make sense of a complex area of Law.

Fisher and Fox demonstrate how ordinary people experienced the foreclosure crisis and how lenders and public institutions failed to protect them.

In einem Bauprojekt müssen zahlreiche Gewerke zeitlich und technisch perfekt aufeinander abgestimmt sein, um das Bauvorhaben termingerecht und reibungslos abzuschließen.

Real property in the form of investment, ownership and use pervades almost every aspect of daily lives and represents over 40% of Australia's wealth.

A practical and popular guide to operating a successful condominium association in Florida.

Taking up the study of legal education in distinctly biopolitical terms, this book provides a critical and political analysis of structure in the law school.

Looking especially at widows of master craftsmen in early modern Paris, this study provides analysis of the social and cultural structures that shaped widows' lives as well as their day-to-day experiences.

It is safe to say that a sizeable majority of the world's population would agree with the proposition that that property rights are important for political and social stability as well as economic growth.

An innovative textbook on housing law that integrates the disciplines of law and public policy.

In response to social housing fraud, the Government introduced the Prevention of Social Housing Fraud Act 2013, which made sub-letting and parting with possession of social lets a specific criminal offence and granted local authorities the power to prosecute those who had acted in such a manner.

Though it may not be immediately obvious why articles on topics from such distantly removed areas of western Europe - the Iberian peninsula and southern Italy - should appear in the same volume (the fourth collection by Roger Reynolds), the materials covered illustrate that they are indeed closely related, both in their differences and their similarities.

This book comprises a collection of papers given at the third biennial conference of the Centre for Property Law at the University of Reading held in March 2000,and is the first in the series 'Modern Studies in Property Law'.