Exploring the Law of Succession: Studies National, Historical and Comparative
Kenneth Reid and Marius de Waal
Abstract
By comparison with other areas of private law, the law of succession has been neglected by modern scholars. This book contributes to its rehabilitation by examining key issues in succession law from a variety of perspectives: national, historical and comparative. In particular it seeks to extend the techniques of legal comparison into an area of law where hitherto they have been little used. The jurisdictions most prominently featured are the mixed jurisdictions of Scotland and South Africa, but there are frequent comparative references, and special attention is given to the Netherlands as the ... More
Keywords: private law, law of succession, Scotland, South Africa, Netherlands, Germany, Italy, freedom of testation, testamentary conditions, forfeiture clauses
Bibliographic Information
| Print publication date: 2007 | Print ISBN-13: 9780748632909 |
| Published to Edinburgh Scholarship Online: March 2012 | DOI:10.3366/edinburgh/9780748632909.001.0001 |
