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Title

Mixed legal systems in comparative perspective : property and obligations in Scotland and South Africa / [edited by] Reinhard Zimmermann, Daniel Visser and Kenneth Reid.

Publication

Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2004.

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Additional Authors

• Zimmermann, Reinhard, 1952 October 10-
• Visser, D. P.
• Reid, Kenneth (Kenneth G. C.)

Description

lxxxi, 871 pages; 24 cm

Summary

"This volume sets out to compare the effects of historical development by assessing whether shared experience has led to shared law. Key topics from the law of property and obligations are examined, collaboratively and comparatively, by teams of leading experts from both jurisdictions. The individual chapters reveal an intricate pattern of similarity and difference, enabling courts and legal writers in Scotland and South Africa to learn from the experience of a kindred jurisdiction. They also, in a number of areas, reveal an emerging and distinctive jurisprudence of mixed systems, and thus suggest viable answers to some of the great questions which must be answered on the path towards a European private law."--Jacket.

Subject

• Property > Scotland
• Obligations (Law) > Scotland
• Property > South Africa
• Obligations (Law) > South Africa
• Civil law
• Comparative law
• Civil law > Scotland
• Civil law > South Africa
• Obligations (Law)
• Property
• Eigentum
• Schuldrecht
• Vertragsrecht
• Rechtsvergleich
• Burgerlijk recht
• Common law
• Sachenrecht > Schottland
• Obligationenrecht > Schottland
• Obligationenrecht > Südafrika (Republik)
• Sachenrecht > Südafrika (Republik)
• Scotland
• South Africa
• Schottland
• Südafrika Kontinent
• Südafrika

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Cases and statutes / Kenneth Reid and Daniel Visser -- 1. 'Double cross' : comparing Scots and South African law / Reinhard Zimmermann -- 2. Formation of contract / Martin Hogg and Gerhard Lubbe -- 3. Interpretation of contract / Laura Macgregor and Carole Lewis -- 4. Good faith in contract law / Fritz Brand and Douglas Brodie -- 5. Defects of consent / Jacques du Plessis and William W. McBryde -- 6. Illegal contracts / Hector MacQueen and Alfred Cockrell -- 7. Breach of contract / Eric Clive and Dale Hutchison -- 8. Contracts for the benefit of third parties / Philip Sutherland and David Johnston -- 9. Agency / A.D.M. Forte and J.P. van Niekerk -- 10. Sale / Robin Evans-Jones and Alastair Smith -- 11. Lease / Charl Hugo and Philip Simpson -- 12. Suretyship and cautionary obligations / Sandra Eden and J.T. Pretorius -- 13. Unauthorized management of affairs (negotiorum gestio) / Niall R. Whitty and Deon van Zyl -- 14. Unjustified enrichment / Niall R. Whitty and Daniel Visser -- 15. Unjustified enrichment and failed contracts / Saul Miller -- 16. Enrichment by act of the party enriched / John Blackie and Ian Farlam -- 17. Negligence / Anton Fagan -- 18. Impairment of reputation, dignity and privacy / Jonathan Burchell and Kenneth McK. Norrie -- 19. Nuisance / Francois du Bois and Elspeth Reid -- 20. Strict liability / Elspeth Reid and Max Loubser -- 21. Property law : some themes and some variations / Kenneth Reid and C.G. van der Merwe -- 22. Acquisition of ownership / D.L. Carey Miller and Anne Pope -- 23. Co-ownership / Duard Kleyn and Scott Wortley -- 24. Servitudes and real burdens / W.M. Gordon and M.J. de Waal -- 25. Rights in security / Gerrit Pienaar and Andrew J.M. Steven -- 26. Assignation/cession / Petrus Nienaber and George Gretton -- 27. Trusts / M.J. de Waal and R.R.M. Paisley.

ISBN

• 0199271003
• 9780199271009

LCCN

2005275416

OCLC

• ocm59711803
• 59711803
• SCSB-8874111

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library