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Record Nr.

UNINA9910813147603321

Autore

Palmer Vernon

Titolo

Mixed jurisdictions compared : private law in Louisiana and Scotland / / edited by Vernon Valentine Palmer and Elspeth Christie Reid [[electronic resource]]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Edinburgh : , : Edinburgh University Press, , 2009

ISBN

0-7486-5144-6

0-7486-4212-9

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xxxvii, 424 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)

Collana

Edinburgh studies in law ; ; v. 6

Disciplina

346.411

Soggetti

Civil law - Scotland

Civil law - Louisiana

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 02 Oct 2015).

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

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.

Sommario/riassunto

A comparative study of the 'mixed jurisdictions' of Scotland and Louisiana.