Borkowski's Law of Succession

Borkowski's Law of Succession
Author: Brian Sloan
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 435
Release: 2017
Genre: Law
ISBN: 0198757921

Presented and written in a friendly and engaging style, Dr Brian Sloan's revised edition is perfectly pitched for today's undergraduate students. Considerable attention is given to the area's rich and evolving case-law, illustrating the relevance of the law to modern life; the central issues and academic debates surrounding inheritance are discussed fully. New to this edition are an introductory chapter covering the demographic and policy context of succession, extensive further reading lists, and diagrams of key concepts, all presented in a clear, modernized design to aid understanding and ease navigation.

Borkowski's Law of Succession

Borkowski's Law of Succession
Author: Brian Sloan
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Total Pages: 478
Release: 2020-06-04
Genre: Inheritance and succession
ISBN: 019885028X

Compact yet comprehensive, Sloan's revised edition of Borkowski's classic text continues to bring the universally relevant law of succession to life in a style and format perfectly pitched for modern undergraduate students.

Deathbed Gifts

Deathbed Gifts
Author: Andrew Borkowski
Publisher: Blackstone Press
Total Pages: 181
Release: 1999
Genre: Gifts causa mortis
ISBN: 9781854319388

This book is the first extensive treatment of deathbed gifts in English law to be published. Such gifts are sometimes made by donors who, when facing impending death, transfer their property conditionally on death. It is a fascinating area of the law containing rules which have their originsin Roman Law, and which have continued to be been developed in modern law combining aspects of the laws of succession, trusts and personal property.Deathbed Gifts provides a detailed exposition and analysis of the current rules. It also traces the origins of the law and examines its continued development by the courts. The subject is represented by a rich case law including recent Court of Appeal decisions; a comprehensive summary of the caselaw is included.

Textbook on Roman Law

Textbook on Roman Law
Author: Andrew Borkowski
Publisher:
Total Pages: 420
Release: 1997
Genre: Law
ISBN: 9781854316424

Roman law constitutes one of the most important and enduring legacies from the ancient world to the modern. It has helped to shape many of the legal systems of today, and continues to provide an invaluable introduction to the study of legal concepts. The book provides students with an exposition of Roman civil law and procedure, setting the law in the context of the history of Rome and keeping the use of Latin phrases to a minimum. A major feature of the book is the use of texts from the ultimate source of Roman law, the "Digest of Justinian". The texts serve to illustrate the law and to make it more vivid for the reader. Emphasis is placed on the influence of Roman law on the modern world and more extensive reference to the fruits of Roman law scholarship.

A Book of Set Theory

A Book of Set Theory
Author: Charles C Pinter
Publisher: Courier Corporation
Total Pages: 259
Release: 2014-07-23
Genre: Mathematics
ISBN: 0486497089

"This accessible approach to set theory for upper-level undergraduates poses rigorous but simple arguments. Each definition is accompanied by commentary that motivates and explains new concepts. A historical introduction is followed by discussions of classes and sets, functions, natural and cardinal numbers, the arithmetic of ordinal numbers, and related topics. 1971 edition with new material by the author"--

Law and Life of Rome

Law and Life of Rome
Author: John Anthony Crook
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Total Pages: 356
Release: 1967
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780801492730

It is about Roman law in its social context, an attempt to strengthen the bridge between two spheres of discourse about ancient Rome by using the institutions of the law to enlarge understanding of the society and bringing the evidence of the social and economic facts to bear on the rules of law.

A Companion to Justinian's Institutes

A Companion to Justinian's Institutes
Author: Ernest Metzger
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Total Pages: 308
Release: 1998
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780801485848

The Corpus Iuris Civilis, a distillation of the entire body of Roman law, was directed by the Emperor Justinian and published in a.d. 533. The Institutes, the briefest of the four works that make up the Corpus, is considered to be the cradle of Roman law and remains the best and clearest introduction to the subject. A Companion to Justinian's "Institutes" will assist the modern-day reader of the Institutes, and is specifically intended to accompany the translation by Peter Birks and Grant McLeod, published by Cornell in 1987. The book offers an intelligent and lucid guide to the legal concepts in the Institutes. The essays follow its structure and take up its principal subjects--for example, slavery, marriage, property, and capital and noncapital crimes--and give a thorough account of the law relating to each of them. Throughout, the authors explain technical Latin vocabulary and legal terms.

Complete Equity and Trusts

Complete Equity and Trusts
Author: Richard Clements
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 591
Release: 2018
Genre: Law
ISBN: 0198787545

Complete Equity & Trusts is supported by clear author commentary, choice extracts, and useful learning features. The explanations and examples in this textbook have been crafted to help students hone their understanding of trusts law. The Complete titles are ambitious in their scope; they've been carefully developed with teachers to offer law students more than just a presentation of the key concepts. Instead they offer a complete package. Only by building on the foundations of the subject, by showing how the law works, demonstrating its application through extracts from cases and judgments, and by giving students the tools and the confidence to think critically about the law will they gain a complete understanding. This book is accompanied by free online resources, which feature resources for students and lecturers including the following: - Guidence for answering end-of-chapter questions in the book - Self-test question with instant feedback - A flashcard glossary of key terms - Updates on legislation and case law

Textbook on Succession

Textbook on Succession
Author: Andrew Borkowski
Publisher:
Total Pages: 418
Release: 1997
Genre: Law
ISBN:

When someone dies, their property is distributed in accordance with their will or the rules of intestacy - the cornerstones of the law of succession. The interplay between the wishes of testators and the expectations of family and friends makes for a subject of human interest. This book provides students with an exposition of succession, dispelling the notion of this as a dry subject. Substantial discussion is devoted to central issues such as the limits of testamentary freedom and the rights for spouses and children on intestacy. Considerable attention is given to the rich case law with its panorama of the foibles and failings of many an eccentric testator. The text covers all the major areas of this subject, including the administrations of estates, and is suggested reading for all students studying wills, intestacy andsuccession on law degree or vocational courses. Andrew Borkowski is the author of "Textbook on Roman Law.'

The Oxford Handbook of the New Private Law

The Oxford Handbook of the New Private Law
Author: Andrew S. Gold
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Total Pages: 640
Release: 2020-11-06
Genre: Law
ISBN: 0190919663

"This book discusses developments in scholarship dedicated to reinvigorating the study of the broad domain of private law. This field, which embraces the traditional common law subjects-property, contracts, and torts-as well as adjacent, more statutory areas, such as intellectual property and commercial law, also includes important subjects that have been neglected in the United States but are beginning to make a comeback. The book particularly focuses on the New Private Law, an approach that aims to bring a new outlook to the study of private law by moving beyond reductively instrumentalist policy evaluation and narrow, rule-by-rule, doctrine-by-doctrine analysis, so as to consider and capture how private law's various features fit and work together, as well as the normative underpinnings of these larger structures. This movement is resuscitating the notion of private law itself in United States and has brought an interdisciplinary perspective to the more traditional, doctrinal approach prevalent in Commonwealth countries. The book embraces a broad range of perspectives to private law-including philosophical, economic, historical, and psychological- yet it offers a unifying theme of seriousness about the structure and content of private law."--