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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 new fourth edition includes coverage of:
Coronavirus: The epidemic has led to new legislation for property transactions, for instance the closure of the Land Register to paper deeds. Many of these 2020 changes are likely to prove permanent.

New cases: Significant decisions since the 3rd edition include Renyana-Stahl Anstalt 2018 SC 406 (access to land), Ali v Serco Ltd 2020 SC 182 (eviction) Ardnamurchan Estates Ltd v MacGregor 2020 SLT (Sh Ct) 49 (prescriptive title to land) and Scottish Woodlands Ltd v Majekodunmi 2020 Hous LR 23 (upkeep of common areas).

Impending legislation: The combination of Brexit and Coronavirus has slowed down the progress of most legislative initiatives. Since the 3rd edition a number of such initiatives have joined the queue, most of which can be expected to be enacted within the foreseeable future, and accordingly an edition of the book appearing in 2021 should alert readers to them. Examples include (i) the Moveable Transactions Bill (major changes to the law of moveable property), (ii) Register of Overseas Entities Bill (with changes to the Land Registration legislation, (iii) the draft Register of Persons Holding a Controlled Interest in Land) (Scotland) Regulations (registration of beneficial ownership of land); (iv) reform of the law of real burdens (Scottish Law Commission's 2019 Report on Section 53 of the Title Conditions (Scotland) Act 2003).

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Property, Trusts and Succession, Fourth Edition, provides full coverage of the property, trusts and succession parts of the LLB syllabus in Scottish universities in one convenient volume.
Dedication ii
Preface v
Table of Statutes
xxix
Table of Statutory Instruments and Codes
xliii
Table of European and International Materials
xlv
Table of cases
xlvii
List of Abbreviations
lxvii
Glossary lxxi
1 Introduction
What is property law?
1(1)
Historical and comparative
2(1)
The sources of property law: statute law and common law
3(1)
Reform
4(1)
Europe
5(1)
Patrimony and the patrimonial rights
5(1)
Private law and public law
6(1)
General
6(1)
Location within private law
7(1)
Real rights and personal rights
7(2)
Personal rights
7(1)
Real rights
8(1)
Comparison
8(1)
Intellectual property
9(1)
Digital assets: cryptocurrency
9(1)
Corporeal and incorporeal
9(1)
Heritable and moveable
10(1)
Combining the categories
10(1)
Three terms: `property', `land' and `goods'
11(1)
Transfer of rights, constitution of rights, extinction of rights
12(1)
A chart of patrimonial rights
13(1)
Literature
13(2)
2 Real rights
The principal real right and the subordinate real rights
15(1)
Ownership: the principal real right
15(1)
Subordinate real rights
16(1)
Encumbered ownership is still ownership
16(1)
Real rights and insolvency
17(1)
Which are the subordinate real rights? The numerus clausus
18(1)
Multiple real rights in the same thing
19(1)
Separate tenements
20(1)
Private property, public property, common good, crown estate, regalia
21(1)
The `unbridgeable division'? Real obligations, `offside goals' etc
22(1)
`Interest'
23(1)
`Beneficial interest', and `beneficial ownership'
23(1)
Some English terms: `freehold', etc
24(1)
Literature
24(1)
3 Ownership
What is the right of ownership?
25(1)
Bundle of rights?
26(1)
Unlimited?
26(1)
Ownership of what?
27(1)
Animals and unowned things
27(1)
Bona vacantia -- ultimus haeres -- `treasure trove'
28(1)
Acquisition: original/derivative
29(1)
Acquisition: voluntary/involuntary
30(1)
Evidence of ownership
30(1)
`The title deeds'
30(1)
Varying statutory definitions
31(1)
Literature
31(3)
4 Acquisition by voluntary transfer: the general principles
Introduction
34(1)
Some terminology
34(1)
Capacity and consent
35(1)
Transferability
36(1)
The specificity principle
37(1)
Contract and conveyance
38(1)
The publicity principle: the need for an external act
39(1)
Transfer is instantaneous
40(1)
The sharp v thomson saga
41(2)
Facts
41(1)
The approach of the courts
41(1)
Burnett's Tr v Grainger
42(1)
Payment And Transfer: The Structure Of Insolvency Risk
43(1)
Warrandice
44(1)
Void, Voidable And Absolutely Good
44(4)
General
44(1)
Void titles: why?
45(1)
Voidable titles: why?
45(1)
Voidable titles and voidable contracts
46(1)
Reduction and other remedies
47(1)
Transfer: nature of granter's title
48(2)
Transfer where granter's title absolutely good
48(1)
Transfer where granter's title voidable
48(1)
Transfer where granter's title void: the nemo plus principle
49(1)
Prior tempore, potior jure
50(1)
To what is the grantee's right subject?
50(1)
`Offside goals'
51(2)
Accretion of title
53(1)
Deeds by unregistered holders
54(1)
Risk
54(1)
Judicial rectification
55(1)
Donation
55(1)
Literature
56(2)
5 Acquisition by voluntary transfer: the rules for the various types of property
Immoveable property
58(6)
Introduction
58(1)
Contract
58(1)
Inhibition, sequestration and the Register of Inhibitions
59(1)
Disposition, settlement and registration
60(1)
Warrandice
61(2)
Gap risk: letters of obligation and advance notices
63(1)
Subordinate real rights in land
63(1)
Corporeal moveable property
64(8)
Introduction
64(1)
Goods
64(1)
Registered moveables: cars, aircraft, ships
65(1)
Transfer: SOGA 1979, s 17
66(1)
Transfer: SOGA 1979, the default rules
66(1)
The seller's lien
67(1)
Retention of title
67(1)
SOGA 1979, ss 20A and 20B: sale of quasi-specific goods
68(1)
The nemo plus principle
69(1)
Warrandice
70(1)
Should good faith buyers be protected?
70(1)
The exceptions to nemo plus
70(2)
Incorporeal moveable property: personal rights
72(5)
Introduction
72(1)
Transferability
72(1)
Transfer by debtor?
73(1)
Assignation: how
73(1)
Effect
74(1)
Warrandice
75(2)
Incorporeal moveable property: non-standard cases
77(1)
(i) Negotiable instruments
77(1)
(ii) Life assurance policies
77(1)
(iii) Financial instruments
77(1)
(iv) Intellectual property
77(1)
Reform?
78(1)
Literature
78(1)
6 Prescription
General
79(1)
Negative prescription
80(1)
Negative prescription: personal rights
80(1)
Negative prescription: subordinate real rights
81(1)
Negative prescription: the real right of ownership
81(1)
Positive prescription
81(5)
Positive prescription: introduction
81(1)
Prescriptive acquisition of ownership of land: the basic Idea
82(1)
Effect of positive prescription
82(1)
The foundation deed
83(1)
The Keeper's role
83(1)
Good faith?
84(1)
Possession must be without `interruption'
84(1)
Possession must be `founded on' the foundation deed
84(1)
What sort of possession?
85(1)
Positive prescription: Sasine Register and Land Register compared
85(1)
Positive prescription: subordinate real rights
86(1)
Corporeal moveables
86(1)
Compensation
86(1)
Literature
87(3)
7 Land registration
Introduction
90(3)
Medical overview of the chapter
90(1)
Registration: an introduction
90(2)
The incentive to register
92(1)
Public access and the title glasshouse
92(1)
The sasine register: 1617 and all that
93(2)
The land register Introduction
95(3)
Switching properties from the old register to the new: (i) the system until 2014
96(1)
Switching properties from the old register to the new: (ii) the new system
97(1)
The anatomy of the Land Register
98(8)
The four parts of the Land Register
98(1)
First part of the Land Register: the Cadastral Map
99(1)
Second part of the Land Register: the Title Sheet Record
100(2)
Shared plot title sheets
102(1)
Title sheets: some further details
102(1)
2012 Act gives only the framework
102(1)
Public law entries?
103(1)
`Overriding interests?'
103(1)
The title sheet's limitations
104(1)
Third part of the Land Register: the Archive Record
104(1)
Fourth part of the Land Register: the application record
105(1)
The physiology of the Land Register
106(6)
Registrable deeds
106(1)
Registration: further requirements
107(1)
Date when an application takes effect
108(1)
The queue, and the `as at the date of application' principle
108(1)
Electronic conveyancing
109(1)
Advance notices
109(3)
The pathology (and therapeutics) of the Land Register
112(10)
Inaccuracy and rectification
112(1)
Rectification: evidence and procedure
113(1)
Keeper's warranty
114(1)
Duty of care owed to the Keeper
115(1)
Protection of good faith grantees: the money or the mud
116(2)
Effect of registration and the Midas touch
118(1)
Caveats
119(1)
Challengeable deeds: (A) reduction
119(1)
Challengeable deeds: (B) judicial rectification
120(1)
Actual and bijural inaccuracies and the transition from LR(S)A 1979
121(1)
Transparency
122(1)
Literature
123(8)
8 Acquisition by involuntary transfer
Introduction
131(1)
Compulsory purchase
132(2)
General
132(1)
Compulsory purchase order
133(1)
Conveyancing procedures
133(1)
Schedule conveyances
133(1)
General vesting declarations
134(1)
Miscellaneous compulsory purchase rights
134(1)
Sale by a secured creditor
134(1)
Diligence
134(1)
General
135(1)
Seize diligences
135(1)
Insolvency
135(1)
Sequestration
135(1)
Corporate insolvency
136(1)
Death
136(1)
Forfeiture as a criminal penalty
137(1)
Special statutory rules
137(1)
Literature
137(2)
9 Original acquisition
Introduction
139(1)
Previously unowned corporeal moveables: occupancy
140(1)
Property which has already been owned
141(8)
Accession
141(5)
Commixtion and confusion
146(1)
Specification
146(2)
Money and bills of exchange
148(1)
Positive prescription
148(1)
Registration in the Land Register under LR(S)A 1979
148(1)
Literature
149(2)
10 Co-ownership
Introduction
151(1)
Common ownership
152(5)
General
152(1)
Possession and use
153(1)
Repairs and alterations
154(1)
Death and insolvency
154(1)
Juridical acts
154(1)
Ending it all
155(2)
Timeshares
157(1)
Joint ownership
157(1)
Literature
158(1)
11 Relationship property law
Introduction
159(1)
Marriage
160(4)
The basic principle: separation of patrimonies
160(1)
Family Law (Scotland) Act 1985, ss 25 and 26
161(1)
Matrimonial Homes (Family Protection) (Scotland) Act 1981
161(2)
End of the marriage: (a) death
163(1)
End of the marriage: (b) divorce
163(1)
Civil partnership
164
Cohabitation
156(10)
Literature
166(2)
12 Possession
General
168(1)
Definition
168(1)
Fact or right
168(1)
Possession and ownership compared
168(1)
The importance of possession
169(1)
Requirements for possession
169(3)
General
169(1)
Act of body
170(2)
Act of mind
172(1)
Transfer of possession
172(1)
General
172(1)
Transfer of natural possession: actual delivery
172(1)
Transfer of civil possession: constructive delivery
172(1)
Transfer of possession by means of a key
173(1)
The right to possession
173(1)
Possession as of right or without right
173(1)
Presumptions
173(1)
Possession in good faith
174(1)
Possessory remedies
174(2)
Spuilzie
174(1)
Compensation
175(1)
Other remedies
175(1)
Literature
176(2)
13 Servitudes
Essentials
178(8)
Definition
178(1)
Two properties
179(1)
A right to enter or make limited use of the burdened property
180(1)
Praedial benefit
181(1)
Repugnancy with ownership
181(1)
Known to the law
182(3)
Breaking the fixed list: new expressly created servitudes
185(1)
Rural and urban servitudes
186(1)
Creation
186(6)
Express grant
186(1)
Express reservation
187(1)
Implied grant
187(1)
Implied reservation
188(1)
Implied servitudes and landlocked land
188(1)
Positive prescription
189(1)
Special statutory provisions
190(1)
Acquiescence
190(1)
Checking for servitudes
191(1)
Rights of the benefited proprietor
192(1)
General
192(1)
Ancillary rights
192(1)
Obligations of the benefited proprietor
193(4)
Express servitude conditions
193(1)
To exercise the servitude civiliter
194(1)
To exercise the servitude for the benefit of the benefited property only
194(1)
Not to increase unwarrantably the burden on the burdened property
195(1)
Rights of the burdened proprietor
196(1)
Obligations of the burdened proprietor
196(1)
Extinction
197(2)
Consensual
197(1)
Acquiescence
197(1)
Negative prescription
197(1)
Abandonment
198(1)
Destruction
198(1)
Confusion
198(1)
Compulsory purchase
198(1)
Application to the Lands Tribunal
199(1)
Rights which are similar to servitudes
199(1)
Public rights of way
199(1)
Statutory rights
199(1)
Literature
200(2)
14 Real burdens
Essentials
202(7)
Definition
202(1)
Background
203(1)
Title Conditions (Scotland) Act 2003
203(1)
Praedial real burdens and personal real burdens
204(1)
Subdivisions and common schemes
204(1)
Affirmative and negative real burdens
205(1)
The praedial requirement
206(1)
Restrictions on content
207(1)
Pre-emptions and other options
207(2)
Creation
209(1)
A deed which is dual-registered
209(1)
The term `real burden'
209(1)
The `four corners of the deed' rule
209(1)
Duration
210(1)
The benefited property
210(6)
The common law background
210(1)
Real burdens created since 28 November 2004
211(1)
Real burdens created before 28 November 2004: seven rules
211(5)
Enforcement
216(3)
General
216(1)
Title to enforce
216(1)
Interest to enforce
216(1)
Liability
217(1)
Remedies
218(1)
Interpretation
218(1)
Division
219(1)
Burdened property
219(1)
Benefited property
219(1)
Feudal abolition
220(1)
Personal real burdens
220(3)
General
220(1)
Conservation burdens
220(1)
Climate change burdens
221(1)
Economic development burdens
221(1)
Health care burdens
221(1)
Maritime burdens
222(1)
Rural housing burdens
222(1)
Manager burdens
222(1)
Personal pre-emption burdens
222(1)
Personal redemption burdens
223(1)
Extinction
223(5)
Express discharge
223(2)
`Sunset rule'
225(1)
By breach
225(2)
Lands Tribunal
227(1)
Compulsory purchase
227(1)
Confusion
228(1)
Literature
228(2)
15 Landownership
Introduction
230(1)
Horizontal boundaries
230(1)
Land Register
230(1)
Sasine Register
230(1)
Sasine Register to Land Register
231(1)
Vertical boundaries
231(1)
From the heavens to the centre of the earth
231(1)
The exception of separate tenements
232(1)
Parts and pertinents
232(2)
General
232(1)
Corporeal pertinents
233(1)
Incorporeal pertinents
233(1)
Separate tenements
234(2)
General
234(1)
Conventional separate tenements
234(1)
Legal separate tenements
235(1)
No accession across the boundaries
235(1)
Land reform
236(3)
General
236(1)
Land Reform (Scotland) Act 2003
236(1)
Land Reform Review Group
236(1)
Community Empowerment (Scotland) Act 2015 (CE(S)A 2015)
237(1)
Land Reform (Scotland) Act 2016 (LR(S)A 2016)
238(1)
Literature
239(3)
16 Tenements and developments
Tenements: general
242(1)
The Tenements (Scotland) Act 2004: a default code
242(1)
Definitions
242(1)
Default rules of tenement ownership
243(2)
General
243(1)
Boundaries
243(1)
Pertinents
244(1)
Default rules of tenement management
245(5)
The Tenement Management Scheme
245(1)
Scheme property
245(1)
Scheme decisions
246(2)
Scheme costs
248(1)
Emergency work
249(1)
Mandatory rules for insurance and maintenance in tenements
250(1)
Common interest
250(1)
Insurance
251(1)
Tenement access and installation rights
251(1)
Demolition
252(1)
Statutory notices
252(1)
Default rules of management and maintenance for other developments
253(1)
Development management scheme
253(1)
Reform
254(1)
Literature
254(1)
17 Rivers, lochs and the sea
General
255(1)
Water
255(1)
Alveus
256(1)
Tidal waters
256(1)
Definition
256(1)
Alveus
256(1)
Foreshore
257(1)
Public rights
257(1)
Non-tidal waters: rivers
257(2)
Alveus
257(1)
Rights of riparian proprietors
257(1)
Obligations on riparian proprietors: common interest
258(1)
Other obligations on riparian proprietors
258(1)
Non-tidal waters: lochs
259(1)
Alveus
259(1)
Rights of riparian proprietors
259(1)
Obligations of riparian proprietors
259(1)
Literature
260(2)
18 Neighbour law
Introduction
262(1)
Boundary fences and walls
262(3)
Construction
262(1)
Ownership
263(1)
Maintenance
264(1)
Alterations
264(1)
Encroachment
265(3)
General
265(1)
Defences: consent and acquiescence
266(1)
Other defences
266(1)
Judicial remedies
267(1)
Self-help
267(1)
Support
268(1)
Land to land
268(1)
Coal specialities
268(1)
Buildings to buildings
269(1)
Servitude of support
269(1)
Nuisance
269(2)
General
269(1)
Examples
270(1)
Assessment of nuisance
270(1)
Defences
271(1)
Remedies
271(1)
Aemulatio vicini (spiteful acts)
271(1)
General
271(1)
Use of a neighbour's property
272(1)
General
272(1)
Drainage
272(1)
Access for repairs
272(1)
Literature
273(3)
19 Public access rights
Introduction
276(1)
Land Reform (Scotland) Act 2003
276(4)
The right to roam
276(1)
Content of the access rights
276(1)
Excluded land
277(2)
Responsible conduct
279(1)
Duty of care of landowners
279(1)
The role of NatureScot
280(1)
The role of local authorities
280(1)
Public rights of way
280(5)
General
280(1)
A burdened property
281(1)
Two public places
281(1)
Access only
282(1)
Creation
282(1)
Exercise
283(1)
Extinction
284(1)
Public roads
284(1)
Rights over water and the foreshore
285(2)
General
285(1)
Tidal waters
286(1)
Foreshore
286(1)
Non-tidal waters
287(1)
Trespass
287(3)
Introduction
287(1)
Defences
287(1)
Criminal liability
288(1)
Civil remedies
288(1)
Self-help
289(1)
Straying animals
289(1)
Literature
290(2)
20 Leases
Introduction
292(1)
Terminology
293(1)
The four cardinal elements
293(2)
(a) Parties
293(1)
(b) Property
294(1)
(c) Rent
294(1)
(d) Duration
294(1)
Constitution
295(5)
Leases and other rights of use
295(1)
Lease as a real right?
296(1)
Formalities
297(1)
Short leases: possession under the Leases Act 1449
297(1)
Long leases: registration
298(1)
`Offside goals' and leases
298(1)
Personal and real conditions
299(1)
Leases and standard securities
299(1)
Rights and obligations of the parties
300(2)
(a) Possession
300(1)
(b) Plenishing
300(1)
(c) Rent
301(1)
(d) Purposes of let
301(1)
(e) State of property
301(1)
Remedies available to both parties
302(2)
(a) Specific implement and interdict
302(1)
(b) Damages
303(1)
(c) Action for payment
303(1)
(d) Rescission
303(1)
(e) Retention
303(1)
Remedies available only to the landlord
304(2)
(a) Landlord's hypothec
304(1)
(b) Irritancy
304(1)
(c) Action for recovery of heritable property
305(1)
Transfer
306(2)
Alienation by landlord
306(1)
Alienation by tenant
306(1)
Subletting
307(1)
Succession
307(1)
Termination
308(3)
Termination at ish
308(1)
Tacit relocation
309(1)
Termination before the ish
310(1)
Types of lease
311(7)
Commercial leases
311(1)
Residential leases
312(3)
Agricultural leases: general
315(1)
Agricultural holdings
315(1)
Crofts
316(1)
Cottars
317(1)
Small landholders
317(1)
Statutory small tenants
318(1)
Literature
318(5)
21 Rights in security
General principles
323(9)
The purpose of security
323(1)
Definition
324(1)
Benefits of security
324(1)
Personal security and real security
324(1)
A subordinate real right
325(1)
Making a security real
325(1)
Registration of securities granted by companies
325(1)
True securities and functional securities
326(2)
Secured debt: restricted and unrestricted securities
328(1)
Accessory nature of security
328(1)
Third-party security
329(1)
Transfer of securities
329(1)
Transfer of the encumbered property
330(1)
Ranking
330(1)
Enforcement
331(1)
Extinction
331(1)
Types of security
332(1)
Voluntary securities
333(10)
General
333(1)
Pledge
333(1)
Floating charge
334(2)
Aircraft and ship mortgages
336(1)
Securities over special types of incorporeal moveable property
336(1)
Standard securities
337(6)
Involuntary securities
343(4)
Categories
343(1)
Lien
344(1)
Landlord's hypothec
345(1)
Solicitor's hypothec
346(1)
Charging orders
346(1)
Future reform
347(1)
Literature
348(1)
22 Liferent
Introduction
349(1)
Why are liferents used?
350(1)
Creation
350(1)
Who can be a liferenter?
351(1)
The legal nature of liferent
351(1)
Subordinate real right -- or temporary ownership?
351(1)
Personal servitudes
351(1)
What sort of property?
351(1)
Possession and upkeep
352(1)
Death and renunciation
352(1)
Insolvency
352(1)
Juridical acts
353(1)
Proper liferent and improper liferent
353(1)
Liferents and destinations
354(1)
Statutory restrictions on liferents
355(1)
Literature
355(3)
23 Trusts: what they are and how they are created
Introduction
358(1)
Overview
358(1)
Sources, and comparative law
358(1)
What is a trust? The basics
359(3)
What is a trust?
359(1)
Real subrogation
360(1)
Definitions of `trust'
361(1)
Trusts that are not trusts and trustees who are not trustees
361(1)
Are trusts part of property law, the law of obligations or the law of persons?
362(1)
What are trusts used for?
362(1)
Different types of trust
362(7)
Ways of classifying
362(1)
Inter vivos trusts and mortis causa trusts
363(1)
Public trusts and private trusts
363(1)
Family trusts and commercial trusts
363(1)
Private trusts: examples
363(3)
Discretionary trusts
366(1)
Taxation and tax-based classifications
367(1)
Liferent trusts (improper liferents)
367
Charities
268(101)
Birth
369(4)
How trusts are created
369(2)
Births: usual and unusual
371(2)
Trustees and beneficiaries
373(2)
Who may be a trustee?
373(1)
Who may be a beneficiary?
374(1)
The three parties: role-sharing
374(1)
Appointment of trustees
374(1)
Ex officio trustees
375(1)
What is a trust? Further discussion
375(4)
The special patrimony
375(2)
Varying theories of the trust
377(1)
The nature of the beneficiary's right
377(1)
The insolvency effect
378(1)
Trusts and the publicity principle
378(1)
Vesting
379(2)
Introduction
379(1)
A footnote on the word `vesting'
380(1)
International private law
381(1)
Literature
381(3)
24 Trusts: their life in health and in sickness
Trustees: general
384(3)
Must the trustees act gratuitously?
348(36)
Cessation of office: (1) death, (2) resignation and (3) removal by the court
384(1)
Lapsed trusts
385(1)
Deciding and doing
385(1)
Consultation
386(1)
Protectors
386(1)
Execution of documents
386(1)
Trust purposes
387(2)
General
387(1)
Failure
387(2)
The rule against perpetuities
389(1)
Powers
389(1)
General
389(1)
Sale by trustees
390(1)
Duties
390(5)
Investment duties
390(2)
The rule against accumulation
392(1)
Accounting duties and information duties
393(1)
Fiduciary duties of trustees
393(2)
Breach of trust
395(3)
Types
395(1)
Some consequences of breach of trust
395(1)
Paying/conveying to the wrong person
396(1)
Judicial relief
397(1)
Immunity clauses
397(1)
Prescription
398(1)
Running for cover
398(1)
Liability of trustees to third parties
398(1)
Insolvency
399(1)
Four cases
399(1)
Literature
400(1)
25 Trusts: variation and termination
Introduction
401(1)
Variation and early termination of private trusts
402(2)
The rule in Miller's Trs v Miller
402(1)
Alimentary trusts
403(1)
Variation of private trusts by the court
404(1)
Termination of a private trust by failure of purposes: resulting trusts
404(1)
Variation and early termination of public trusts
404(2)
Variation of public trusts
404(1)
Variation of non-charitable public trusts
404(1)
Variation (`reorganisation') of charitable trusts
405(1)
Cy pres
405(1)
Literature
406(2)
26 Succession: general issues
Introduction
408(5)
Location of succession within private law
408(1)
Succession law and trust law
408(1)
Sources of the law: past and future
408(1)
Different approaches to succession
409(1)
Moral claims
409(2)
Death
411(1)
The body
412(1)
Who may inherit? The living and the dead
413(2)
General
413(1)
Common calamity
414(1)
Who may inherit? Some particular types of person
415(3)
General
415(1)
Children out of wedlock
415(1)
Adopted children
415(1)
Stepchildren
416(1)
Posthumous children etc
416(1)
Cohabitants
416(1)
Spouses and civil partners: current, former and separated
417(1)
Juristic persons and trusts
417(1)
The unworthy heir
417(1)
No obligation to accept
418(1)
The estate
418(5)
Active and passive transmissibility
418(1)
Heritable and moveable
419(1)
Digital assets
419(2)
Incidence of debts
421(1)
Executory contracts to buy or sell: `conversion'
422(1)
Executry
423(3)
Introduction
423(1)
Executors
423(1)
Confirmation
424(1)
The executor's position
424(1)
Insolvency
425(1)
Personal liability of the executor?
425(1)
The six-months rule
425(1)
Personal liability of others?
426(1)
International private law
426(1)
Religious law
427(1)
Literature
427(2)
27 Legal rights
Introduction
429(3)
General
429(1)
Jus relictae, jus relicti and legitim
430(1)
The dead's part
431(1)
Applicability
431(1)
Legal rights are a claim for money
432(1)
Priority
432(1)
Renunciation
433(1)
Approbate and reprobate
434(1)
Four misconceptions about legal rights
435(1)
Some more examples
436(1)
Representation in legitim: per stirpes and per capita division
436(1)
Representation: when does it apply?
437(1)
Collatio inter liberos
437(2)
Circumventing legal rights
439(1)
Some comparative law: England, France, Germany
439(1)
Literature
440(2)
28 Testate succession
Testaments
442(9)
Introduction
442(2)
Testamentary capacity
444(1)
Execution
444(1)
Codicils, adoption and execution on the testator's behalf
445(1)
Concluded testamentary intent
446(1)
Where is the testament?
447(1)
Proving the tenor
447(1)
How long does a testament last?
448(1)
Revocation, express and implied
448(2)
Reduction
450(1)
Solicitor's duty of care to potential legatees?
451(1)
Will substitutes
451(1)
Substantive testate succession
451(7)
Introduction
451(1)
Types of legacy
452(1)
Conditions in legacies
453(1)
Invalid legacies
453(1)
Abatement
454(1)
Ademption
455(1)
Legatum rei alienae
456(1)
Death of legatee: lapse of legacies
456(1)
Express destinations-over
456(1)
Implied destinations-over: (i) accretion
457(1)
Implied destinations-over: (ii) legatee's offspring
457(1)
Vesting
458(4)
Interpretation of testaments
458(3)
Rectification of testaments
461(1)
Literature
462(1)
29 Intestate succession
Introduction
463(1)
Policy?
464(1)
Five stages
464(6)
Stage 1 Prior rights
465(3)
Stage 2 Relict's right
468(1)
Stage 3 Cohabitant's right
468(1)
Stage 4 Legitim
469(1)
Stage 5 Free estate
469(1)
Ultimus haeres
470(1)
Artificial intestacy
471(1)
Partial intestacy
471(1)
Evaluation
472(1)
Literature
472(1)
30 Destinations
Introduction
473(1)
Destinations-over: the basics
474(1)
Special destinations
474(4)
The basics
474(1)
Effect
474(1)
Survivorship
475(1)
Evacuation
475(2)
Practical significance of special destinations
477(1)
Special destinations: transferring to the substitute
477(1)
Special destinations and insolvency
478(1)
Special destinations, joint property and liferents
478(1)
Back to destinations-over
478(1)
Jus and spes
479(1)
Tailzies (entails)
479(1)
Non-destinations: bank accounts
479(1)
Literature
480(2)
31 Execution of documents
The need for writing
482(5)
Requirements of Writing (Scotland) Act 1995
482(1)
The six categories where writing is required
483(2)
Failure to use writing
485(1)
Reasons for requiring writing
486(1)
The role of notaries
486(1)
The Books of Council and Session
487(1)
Traditional documents: formal validity
487(3)
Formal validity: the one requirement
487(1)
Meaning of `subscription'
487(1)
Execution on behalf of someone else
488(1)
Methods of signing
488(2)
Traditional documents: probativity
490(6)
Definition
490(1)
Probative versus improbative
490(1)
Achieving probativity
490(1)
Probativity by attestation
491(1)
Probativity is all about appearance
492(1)
Special rule for wills
493(1)
Probativity by other methods: juristic persons
493(1)
Three presumptions
494(1)
The benefits of probativity
495(1)
Converting improbative documents into probative documents
495(1)
Adding to traditional documents
496(1)
Incorporation of earlier documents
496(1)
Annexations
496(1)
Alterations
497(1)
Electronic documents
497(2)
Validity
497(1)
Probativity
497(2)
Alterations, annexations, authentication and execution by or on behalf of individuals with a disability
499(1)
Execution in counterpart
499(1)
Delivery of documents
500(1)
Literature
501(2)
32 Human rights
Introduction
503(1)
Incorporation of echr into domestic law
504(3)
General
504(1)
Impact on legislation
505(1)
Horizontal and vertical effect
506(1)
Article one protocol one
507(4)
The text
507(1)
Possessions or property
507(1)
An interference and its nature
508(1)
Legal certainty
509(1)
Legitimate objective
509(1)
Proportionality: fair balance
510(1)
Article eight
511(1)
Other echr articles
512(1)
Assessment
513(1)
Further human rights considerations
513(1)
Literature
514(1)
Appendix: The feudal system
Full circle
515(1)
History of feudalism: a one-minute summary
516(1)
The feudal chain
517(1)
The types of tenure
518(2)
General
518(1)
(1) Wardholding
518(1)
(2) Mortification
518(1)
(3) Burgage tenure
518(1)
(4) Blench
518(1)
(5) Feufarm
519(1)
Dominium directum, dominium utile, dominium eminens
520(1)
Casualties and irritancies
520(1)
A me and de me
521(1)
Real burdens
521(1)
`The feudal system of land tenure is abolished'
521(1)
Postscript (1) ultra-long leases
522(1)
Postscript (2) `Feudalism' is a polysemic term
522(1)
Literature
522(111)
Index 633
George Gretton is Lord President Reid Professor of Law Emeritus at the University of Edinburgh and a former Scottish Law Commissioner and Andrew Steven is a Senior Lecturer in Law at the University of Edinburgh and a former Scottish Law Commissioner