Exploring the Law of Succession : Studies National, Historical and Comparative /

By comparison with other areas of private law, the law of succession has been neglected by modern scholars. This volume contributes to its rehabilitation by examining key issues in succession law from a variety of perspectives: national, historical and comparative. In particular it seeks to extend t...

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Những tác giả chính: Reid, Kenneth (Tác giả), Zimmermann, Reinhard, 1952 October 10- (Tác giả, Người cộng sự), de Waal, Marius (Tác giả)
Tác giả khác: Barr, Alan R (Người cộng sự), Braun, Alexandra (Người cộng sự), Chalmers, James (Người cộng sự), Erp, Sjef van (Người cộng sự), Gretton, George L. (Người cộng sự), Hutchison, Dale (Người cộng sự), Paisley, Roderick R. M. (Người cộng sự), Schoeman-Malan, M. C. (Người cộng sự), Sellar, W. David H. (Người cộng sự), Sonnekus, J. C. (Người cộng sự), Toit, François du (Người cộng sự), Waal, Marius J. de (Người cộng sự)
Định dạng: Licensed eBooks
Ngôn ngữ:Tiếng Anh
Được phát hành: Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2022]
Loạt:Edinburgh Studies in Law : ESL
Truy cập trực tuyến:https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.3366/j.ctv2f4vfb5
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Tóm tắt:By comparison with other areas of private law, the law of succession has been neglected by modern scholars. This volume contributes to its rehabilitation by examining key issues in succession law from a variety of perspectives: national, historical and comparative. In particular it seeks to extend the techniques of legal comparison into an area of law where hitherto they have been little used. The jurisdictions most prominently featured are the mixed jurisdictions of Scotland and South Africa, but there are frequent comparative references, and special attention is given to the Netherlands as the country which has most recently re-written its succession law. The authors of the individual chapters are drawn from Scotland, South Africa, Germany, Italy and the Netherlands. Among the topics covered are freedom of testation, testamentary conditions and public policy, forfeiture clauses and events, revocation of wills by changed circumstances, revocation of mutual wills, fideicommissary substitutions, and succession agreements. The volume opens with an overview of the state of comparative law and with a consideration of compulsory heirship in Roman law.
Mô tả vật lý:1 online resource (256 p.).
số ISBN:1474471943
9781474471947