Mixed jurisdictions compared : private law in Louisiana and Scotland /

Returning to a theme featured in some of the earlier volumes in the Edinburgh Studies in Law series, this volume offers an in-depth study of 'mixed jurisdictions' - legal systems which combine elements of the Anglo-American Common Law and the European Civil Law traditions. This new collect...

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Other Authors: Palmer, Vernon V., Reid, Elspeth (Elspeth Christie)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, 2009
Series:Edinburgh studies in law ; v. 6.
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Local Note:ProQuest Ebook Central
Table of Contents:
  • Praedial servitudes / Kenneth G.C. Reid
  • Title conditions in restraint of trade / John A. Lovett
  • Servitudes : extinction by non-use / Roderick R.M. Paisley
  • Inheritance and the surviving spouse / Ronald J. Scalise Jr.
  • Ownership of trust property in Scotland and Louisiana / James Chalmers
  • The legal regulation of adult domestic relationships / Kenneth McK Norrie
  • Impediments to marriage in Scotland and Louisiana : an historical-comparative investigation / J.-R. Trahan
  • Contracts of intellectual gratification : a Louisiana-Scotland creation / Vernon Valentine Palmer
  • The effect of unexpected circumstances on contracts on Scots and Louisiana law / Laura J. Macgregor
  • Hunting promissory estoppel / David V. Snyder
  • Unjustified enrichment, subsidiarity and contract / Hector L. MacQueen
  • Causation as an element of delict/tort in Scots and Louisiana law / Martin A. Hogg
  • Personality rights : a study in difference / Elspeth Christie Reid.