Property

Water management plays an increasingly critical role in national and international policy agendas. Growing scarcity, overuse, and pollution, combined with burgeoning demand, have made socio-political and economic conflicts almost unavoidable. Proposals...

Nearly all communities are exclusive in some way. When race or wealth is the basis of exclusion, the homogeneity of a neighborhood, workplace, or congregation is controversial. In other instances, as with an artist's colony or a French language book...

Property: Values and Institutions, by Hanoch Dagan, offers an original understanding of property, different from the dominant voices in the field, yet loyal to the practice of property. It rejects the misleading dominant binarism in which property is...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789041194800Author Una WoodsFormat PaperbackPage Count 194Imprint Kluwer Law InternationalPublisher Kluwer Law International

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781946556318Author Ramakrishna BFormat PaperbackPage Count 138Imprint Notion PressPublisher Notion PressWeight(grams) 336g

In the past fifteen years, most countries of Central and Eastern Europe and the Commonwealth of Independent States have shifted from predominantly collective to more individualized agriculture. These years also have witnessed the largest fall in...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798885570213Author Sterling EducationFormat PaperbackPage Count 196Imprint Sterling EducationPublisher Sterling EducationWeight(grams) 349g

This book introduces readers to the concept of territory as it applies to law while demonstrating the particular work that territory does in organizing property relations. Territories can be found in all societies and at all scales, although they take...

This handbook brings together diverse perspectives, major topics, and multiple approaches to one of the biggest legal institutions in society: property. Property touches on many fundamental human questions. It involves decisions about power, economy,...

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The practical and artistic creations of native peoples permeate everyday life in settler nations, from the design elements on our clothing to the plot-lines of books we read to our children. Rarely, however, do native communities benefit materially from...

Economics is a matter of choice and growth, of interaction and exchange among individuals. Because property rights define the rules of these interactions and the objects of exchange, it is vital to fully understand the institutions and implications of...

Leading scholars in the field of law and economics contribute their original theoretical and empirical research to this major Handbook. Each chapter analyzes the basic architecture and important features of the institutions of property law from an...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780595011551Author John P LudingtonFormat PaperbackPage Count 220Imprint Writers Club PressPublisher Writers Club PressWeight(grams) 358g

In Kvinder, familie og formue (Women, Family and Fortune), the author examines the financial circumstances among married couples and the rules of in-heritage between parents and children from the Middle Ages and onward through to the 20th century. A...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781607418009Author Timothy R AllertoneFormat HardbackPage Count 254Imprint Nova Science Publishers IncPublisher Nova Science Publishers IncWeight(grams) 710g

Globalization is an extraordinary phenomenon affecting virtually everything in our lives. And it is imperative that we understand the operation of economic power in a globalized world if we are to address the most challenging issues our world is facing...

The fourth edition of Housing Policy in the United States refreshes its classic, foundational coverage of the field with new data, analysis, and comparative focus. This landmark volume offers a broad overview that synthesizes a wide range of material to...

On June 23, 2005, the Supreme Court ruled that the city of New London, Connecticut, could condemn fifteen residential properties in the Fort Trumbull area and transfer them to a new private owner. The use of eminent domain to take private property for...

How has it come about that indigenous cultures, body parts, and sequences of musical notes are considered property? How has the movement from collective to privatized systems affected notions of property? At what point in transaction chains do native...

Why are we still arguing over the Parthenon Marbles? This book offers a fresh take on the history of those famous pieces of ancient sculpture removed from the Acropolis in Athens by Lord Elgin’s men in the early 19th century. It explains how they became...

What, exactly, is private property? Or, to ask the question another way, what rights to intrude does the public have in what is generally accepted as private property? The answer, perhaps surprisingly to some, is that the public has not only a...

First published in 2003. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.Book InformationISBN 9780728204072Author Barry Denyer-GreenFormat HardbackPage Count 148Imprint Estates Gazette LtdPublisher Taylor & Francis...

First published in 2002. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.Book InformationISBN 9780728203761Author Barry Denyer-GreenFormat HardbackPage Count 134Imprint Estates Gazette LtdPublisher Taylor & Francis...

First published in 2005. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.Book InformationISBN 9780728204713Author Barry Denyer-GreenFormat HardbackPage Count 136Imprint Estates Gazette LtdPublisher Taylor & Francis...

This volume is an indispensable reference for property law practitioners and students researching and advising on all aspects of landlord & tenant law, valuation, conveyancing, leasehold enfranchisement and compensation. It summarises and reports the...

This book provides a thorough analysis of the evolution of land property rights and transfer mechanism during the transition of the Chinese society from being a traditional self-sustaining agricultural society to a modern commercialized agricultural...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783161497902Author Birke HackerFormat PaperbackPage Count 408Imprint Mohr SiebeckPublisher Mohr SiebeckWeight(grams) 634g

This open access book presents a legal geography of property rights in land through the lenses of landscape and critical spatial justice. It seeks to reassert the importance of landscape and place in property as an alternative to abstract concepts of...

Property Rights: From Magna Carta to the Fourteenth Amendment breaks new ground in our understanding of the genesis of property rights in the United States. According to the standard interpretation, echoed by as lofty an authority as Supreme Court...

First published in 2005. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.Book InformationISBN 9780728204706Author Barry Denyer-GreenFormat HardbackPage Count 148Imprint Estates Gazette LtdPublisher Taylor & Francis...

This book introduces readers to the concept of territory as it applies to law while demonstrating the particular work that territory does in organizing property relations. Territories can be found in all societies and at all scales, although they take...

The 1805 New York foxhunting case Pierson v. Post has long been used in American property law classrooms to introduce law students to the concept of first possession by asking how one establishes possession of a wild animal. In this book, Angela...

Multi-owned properties make up an ever-increasing proportion of commercial, tourist and residential development, in both urban and rural landscapes around the world. This book critically analyses the legal, social and economic complexities of strata or...

First Published in 2003. This edition of the Standards has been the second to be issued for public consultation taking into account many of the comments submitted to it by individuals, companies and professional bodies. Users of the book should use the...

How American colonists laid the foundations of American capitalism with an economy built on creditEven before the United States became a country, laws prioritizing access to credit set colonial America apart from the rest of the world. Credit Nation...

Economic development and mass urbanization have unleashed unprecedented levels of land disputes in East Asia. In China and Vietnam especially, courts and other legal institutions struggle to find lasting solutions. It is against this background of legal...

Key provisions of the Land Registration Act 2002 provide the legal framework for electronic conveyancing. This book will explain the legislative framework and the current proposals - including the key issues of security and authorisation - and will...

Few topics have had a more profound impact on the study of Roman law in Britain than the lex Aquilia, a Roman statute enacted c.287/286 BCE to reform the Roman law on wrongful damage to property. This volume investigates this peculiarly British fixation...

One of the quintessential goals of the American Dream is to own land and a home, a place to raise one's family and prove one's prosperity. Particularly for immigrant families, home ownership is a way to assimilate into American culture and community...