Land registration in Scots law is a system of public registration of land, and associated real rights. Scotland has one of the oldest systems of land...

information recorded and the protection provided by land registration varies widely by jurisdiction. In common law countries, particularly in jurisdictions in...

leasehold) could quite easily be acquired by squatting before the Land Registration Act 2002. Since its passage such rights are dominated by precisely...

Prescription in Scots law allows the creation or extinction of personal and real rights. There are two forms of prescription: (1) positive prescription...

Scots property law governs the rules relating to property found in the legal jurisdiction of Scotland. In Scots law, the term 'property' does not solely...

Udal law generally holds sway in Shetland and Orkney, along with Scots law. Not all land in Shetland and Orkney can be described as falling under udal tenure...

deprived of all ownership in the property, at the moment of registration in the Land Register. Scots law follows the principle that traditionibus non nudis pactis...

Feu was long the most common form of land tenure in Scotland. Conveyancing in Scots law was dominated by forms which were called feudal until the Scottish...

Sasine in Scots law is the delivery of feudal property, typically land. Feudal property means immovable property, and includes everything that naturally...

Possession in Scots law occurs when an individual physically holds property with the intent to use it. Possession is traditionally viewed as a state of...

The missives of sale, in Scots property law, are a series of formal letters between the two parties, the Buyer and the Seller, containing the contract...

purchase are powers to obtain land in Scotland that were traditionally available to certain public bodies in Scots law. Scots law classifies compulsory purchase...

many elements of Scots property law are different. In England, property law encompasses four main topics: English land law, or the law of "real property"...

English had o, a difference still found in standard English two and Scots twa. The Scots and Northern English dialectal variant laird has been recorded in...

creditors and debtors. The newest form of diligence, land attachment, will be introduced into Scots law when Part 4 of the Bankruptcy and Diligence (Scotland)...

An estate in land is, in the law of England and Wales, an interest in real property that is or may become possessory. It is a type of personal property...

advertise the purchase of 'ownership' of small plot of land part of an estate. However, Scots property law only recognises a defined number of real rights,...

In common law systems, land tenure, from the French verb "tenir" means "to hold", is the legal regime in which land "owned" by an individual is possessed...

Press. p. 188. A Roman-Dutch legal term; Scots law has pactum legis commissoriæ (in pignoribus). The Jersey Law Commission, Consultation Paper: Security...

other European countries and elsewhere; in Scots law tailzie was codified in the Entail Act 1685. Most common law jurisdictions have abolished fee tails or...

The Registration Act 1617, stipulated that the instrument of sasine required registration in order to create or transfer real rights in Scots law: "HIS...

Land Registry's National Spatial Dataset to display boundary maps on-screen using a live data link to help validate property locations. In Scots law,...

Chinese property law has existed in various forms for centuries. After the Chinese Communist Revolution in 1949, most land is owned by collectivities...

through a deed or land registration) is fundamental to German private law (as well as Brazilian law, Greek law, South African law, and Scots law). Abstract title...

International Union for Land Value Taxation (The IU) Land (economics) Land monopolization and reform Land speculation Land tenure and registration Law of rent Lockean...

and the rule of law, holding that the only "true" law is their own idiosyncratic interpretation of "common law". Freemen on the land also advocate schemes...

In English law, a fee simple or fee simple absolute is an estate in land, a form of freehold ownership. A "fee" is a vested, inheritable, present possessory...

of land held in allodium, or land ownership by occupancy and defence of the land. Most property ownership in common law jurisdictions is fee simple. In...

a legal scholar and former law commissioner who holds the Chair of Scots Law at the University of Edinburgh School of Law. Kenneth Reid was educated at...

(on civil law reform); the Department for Communities and Local Government (on building regulation); HM Land Registry (on land registration). In the Irish...