Exploring the Law of Succession : : Studies National, Historical and Comparative / / Reinhard Zimmermann, Kenneth Reid, Marius de Waal.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Edinburgh University Press Backlist eBook-Package 2013-2000
• VerfasserIn: Reid, Kenneth,; Zimmermann, Reinhard,; de Waal, Marius,
• MitwirkendeR: Barr, Alan R,; Braun, Alexandra,; Chalmers, James,; Erp, Sjef van,; Gretton, George L.,; Hutchison, Dale,; Paisley, Roderick R. M.,; Schoeman-Malan, M. C.,; Sellar, W. David H.,; Sonnekus, J. C.,; Toit, François du,; Waal, Marius J. de,; Zimmermann, Reinhard,
• Place / Publishing House: Edinburgh : : Edinburgh University Press, , [2022]; ©2007
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Series: Edinburgh Studies in Law : ESL
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (256 p.)

By comparison with other areas of private law, the law of succession has been neglected by modern scholars. This volume 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 country which has most recently re-written its succession law. The authors of the individual chapters are drawn from Scotland, South Africa, Germany, Italy and the Netherlands. Among the topics covered are freedom of testation, testamentary conditions and public policy, forfeiture clauses and events, revocation of wills by changed circumstances, revocation of mutual wills, fideicommissary substitutions, and succession agreements. The volume opens with an overview of the state of comparative law and with a consideration of compulsory heirship in Roman law.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- List of Contributors -- List of Abbreviations -- Table of Cases -- 1 A Comparative Overview -- 2 Compulsory Heirship in Roman Law -- 3 Succession Law in Scotland – a Historical Perspective -- 4 Succession Law in South Africa – a Historical Perspective -- 5 Freedom of Testation and the Ageing Testator -- 6 Testamentary Conditions and Public Policy -- 7 Forfeiture Clauses and Events in Scots Law -- 8 Revocation of Wills by Changed Circumstances -- 9 Fideicommissary Substitutions: Scots Law in Historical and Comparative Perspective -- 10 The conditio si institutus sine liberis decesserit in Scots and South African law -- 11 The New Dutch Law of Succession -- 12 Revocability of Mutual Wills -- 13 Succession Agreements in South African and Scots Law -- Index