Mixed Jurisdictions Compared : : Private Law in Louisiana and Scotland / / Vernon Palmer, Elspeth Reid.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Edinburgh University Press Backlist eBook-Package 2013-2000
• VerfasserIn: Palmer, Vernon,; Reid, Elspeth,
• MitwirkendeR: Chalmers, James,; Hogg, Martin A.,; Lovett, John A.,; MacQueen, Hector L.,; Macgregor, Laura J.,; Norrie, Kenneth McK.,; Paisley, Roderick R. M.,; Palmer, Vernon Valentine,; Reid, Elspeth Christie,; Reid, Kenneth G. C.,; Scalise, Ronald J.,; Snyder, David V.,; Trahan, J-R,
• Place / Publishing House: Edinburgh : : Edinburgh University Press, , [2022]; ©2009
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Series: Edinburgh Studies in Law : ESL
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (456 p.)

A comparative study of the 'mixed jurisdictions' of Scotland and LouisianaReturning 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-A...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Contents
• Preface
• List of Contributors
• List of Abbreviations
• Table of Cases
• 1 Praedial Servitudes
• 2 Title Conditions in Restraint of Trade
• 3 Servitudes: Extinction by Non-Use
• 4 Inheritance and the Surviving Spouse
• 5 Ownership of Trust Property in Scotland and Louisiana
• 6 The Legal Regulation of Adult Domestic Relationships
• 7 Impediments to Marriage in Scotland and Louisiana: An Historical-Comparative Investigation
• 8 Contracts of Intellectual Gratification – A Louisiana-Scotland Creation
• 9 The Effect of Unexpected Circumstances on Contracts in Scots and Louisiana Law
• 10 Hunting Promissory Estoppel
• 11 Unjustified Enrichment, Subsidiarity and Contract
• 12 Causation as an Element of Delict/Tort in Scots and Louisiana Law
• 13 Personality Rights: A Study in Difference
• Index