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Time Limited Interests in Land
Cornelius Merwe
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Description for Time Limited Interests in Land
hardcover. Highlights the pivotal role time-limited interests can play in estate planning and the development of social housing and pristine land. Editor(s): Van der Merwe, Cornelius; Verbeke, Alain-Laurent. Series: The Common Core of European Private Law. Num Pages: 576 pages, 1 table. BIC Classification: 1D; LNSH. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 228 x 152 x 30. Weight in Grams: 1040.
A comprehensive comparative treatment of six instances of time-limited interests in land as encountered in fourteen European jurisdictions. The survey explores the commercial or social origins of each legal institution concerned and highlights their enforceability against third parties, their content and their role in land development. The commercial purpose of residential and agricultural leases is contrasted with the social aim of personal servitudes (and its common-law equivalent liferent) to provide sustenance for life to mostly family members making the latter an important estate planning device. Whereas the ingrained principles of leases and personal servitudes restrain the full exploitation of land, ... Read more
A comprehensive comparative treatment of six instances of time-limited interests in land as encountered in fourteen European jurisdictions. The survey explores the commercial or social origins of each legal institution concerned and highlights their enforceability against third parties, their content and their role in land development. The commercial purpose of residential and agricultural leases is contrasted with the social aim of personal servitudes (and its common-law equivalent liferent) to provide sustenance for life to mostly family members making the latter an important estate planning device. Whereas the ingrained principles of leases and personal servitudes restrain the full exploitation of land, ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Number of pages
576
Condition
New
Series
The Common Core of European Private Law
Number of Pages
576
Place of Publication
Cambridge, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781107026124
SKU
V9781107026124
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About Cornelius Merwe
Cornelius Van Der Merwe read law at Bloemfontein and Oxford and obtained a LLD from the University of South Africa. He held chairs in Private Law at the Universities of South Africa and Stellenbosch, in Civil Law at the University of Aberdeen and is presently a Senior Research Fellow at the University of Stellenbosch. He is the main author of ... Read more
Reviews for Time Limited Interests in Land
'The general editors and the contributors are to be commended for undertaking such a bold piece of work that can justifiably claim to be a go-to reference for the comparative study of time-limited interests in land, striking a balance between historical, domestic and comparative scholarship in a pragmatic manner.' Malcolm M. Combe, Zeitschrift fur Europaisches Privatrecht