Property Trusts and Succession

George Gretton is Lord President Reid Chair of Law at the University of Edinburgh and Andrew Steven is a Senior Lecturer in Law at the University of Edinburgh. He is also a Scottish Law Commissioner.

1 Introduction 2 Real rights 3 Ownership 4 Acquisition by voluntary transfer: the general principles 5 Acquisition by voluntary transfer: the rules for the various types of property 6 Land registration 7 Acquisition by involuntary transfer 8 Original acquisition 9 Co-ownership 10 Sexual property law 11 Possession 12 Servitudes 13 Real burdens 14 Landownership 15 Tenements and developments 16 Rivers, lochs and the sea 17 Neighbour law 18 Public access rights 19 Leases 20 Rights in security 21 Liferent 22 Trusts: what they are and how they are created 23 Trusts: their life in health and in sickness 24 Trusts: variation and termination 25 Succession: general issues 26 Legal rights 27 Testate succession 28 Intestate succession 29 Destinations 30 Execution of documents 31 Human rights