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Title Time-limited interests in land / edited by Cornelius Van Der Merwe and Alain-Laurent Verbeke
Published Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2012

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Description 1 online resource (xxii, 551 pages)
Series The common core of European private law ; 12
Common core of European private law ; 12.
Contents Cover; Time-Limited Interests in Land; The Common Core of European Private Law; Title; Copyright; Contents; General editors' preface; Preface; Contributors; Abbreviations; PART I: Introduction and context; 1 Setting the scene; 1. The scene; 2. Balancing the interests: a handful of common problems; 3. Time-limited interests arising by operation of law; 2 General introduction; 1. Overview; 2. The hybrid character of time-limited interests in land; 3. The approach and purpose of this study; 3.1. Background; 3.2. Drawing a geographical map of the law of Europe; 4. The genesis of the book
Summary A comprehensive comparative treatment of six instances of time-limited interests in land as encountered in fourteen European jurisdictions. The survey explores the commercial or social origins of each legal institution concerned and highlights their enforceability against third parties, their content and their role in land development. The commercial purpose of residential and agricultural leases is contrasted with the social aim of personal servitudes (and its common-law equivalent liferent) to provide sustenance for life to mostly family members making the latter an important estate planning device. Whereas the ingrained principles of leases and personal servitudes restrain the full exploitation of land, it is indicated that public authorities and private capital could combine to turn the old-fashioned time-limited institutions of hereditary building lease (superficies) and hereditary land lease (emphyteusis) into pivotal devices in alleviating the acute shortage of social housing and in promoting the fullest exploitation of pristine agricultural land
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes English
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Subject Land use -- Law and legislation -- Europe
Time (Law) -- Europe
Landlord and tenant -- Europe
Land titles -- Registration and transfer -- Europe
Servitudes -- Europe
Leases -- Europe
Usufruct -- Europe
LAW -- Administrative Law & Regulatory Practice.
Land titles -- Registration and transfer
Land use -- Law and legislation
Landlord and tenant
Leases
Servitudes
Time (Law)
Usufruct
Europe
Form Electronic book
Author Van der Merwe, C. G.
Verbeke, Alain.
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