Time Limited Interests in Land
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Part of The Common Core of European Private Law
- Editors:
- Cornelius Van Der Merwe, University of Stellenbosch, South Africa
- Alain-Laurent Verbeke, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium
- Date Published: July 2012
- availability: Available
- format: Hardback
- isbn: 9781107026124
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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, it is indicated that public authorities and private capital could combine to turn the old-fashioned time-limited institutions of hereditary building lease (superficies) and hereditary land lease (emphyteusis) into pivotal devices in alleviating the acute shortage of social housing and in promoting the fullest exploitation of pristine agricultural land.
Read more- First extensive European research on the content and characteristic features of time-limited interests in land
- Highlights divergence in social policy to help readers understand how social justifications underlying different legal institutions can influence the principles ingrained in these institutions
- Underscores the important role the institutions of personal servitudes and lease can play in estate planning
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"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."
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- Date Published: July 2012
- format: Hardback
- isbn: 9781107026124
- length: 576 pages
- dimensions: 236 x 160 x 30 mm
- weight: 1.04kg
- contains: 1 table
- availability: Available
Table of Contents
Part I. Introduction:
1. Setting the scene
2. General introduction
3. Historical evolution of the maxim 'sale breaks hire'
4. The many faces of usufruct
Part II. Case Studies
Part III. Concluding Remarks.
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