The Consequences of Possession

EDINBURGH STUDIES IN LAW Series Editor: Elspeth Christie Reid Volume 11 The Consequences of Possession Edited by Eric Descheemaeker Compares the law of possession across the divide between the civilian tradition and the common law The theme of this edited volume is the consequences that the law attaches to the recognition of a possessory relationship between a person and a thing in a comparative perspective. The comparative law of property is a budding, but still extremely underdeveloped, field of study; yet its importance is self-evident in an age of Europeanisation of law and legal scholarship. Bringing together contributions of scholars from the civilian tradition (France, Germany, Italy), the common-law world (England) and mixed legal systems (Quebec, Scotland, South Africa), The Consequences of Possession focuses on the protection of possession across the divide between the two great western legal traditions. Eric Descheemaeker is Lecturer in European Private Law at the University of Edinburgh. Among his previous publications are The Division of Wrongs: A Historical Comparative Study (2009) and Iniuria and the Common Law (edited with Helen Scott, 2013). Logo reproduced by the kind permission of the Faculty of Advocates [EUP logo] www.euppublishing.com