Exploring the Law of Succession

Kenneth Reid is Professor of Scots Law at the University of Edinburgh. Professor Reid is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh (2000), a Fellow of the British Academy (2008), and a Commander of the Order of the British Empire (2005). Marius de Waal is Professor of Private Law at Stellenbosch University. Reinhard Zimmermann is Director of the Max Planck Institute for Foreign Private and Private International Law, Hamburg, and Professor of Private Law, Roman Law, and Comparative Law in the University of Regensburg.

• Preface; List of Contributors; Table of Statutes; Table of Cases; A Comparative Overview; Marius J de Waal; Compulsory Heirship in Roman Law; Reinhard Zimmermann; Succession Law in Scotland: a Historical Perspective; W David H Sellar; Succession Law in South Africa: a Historical Perspective; Francois du Toit; Freedom of Testation and the Ageing Testator; J C Sonnekus; Testamentary Conditions and Public Policy; James Chalmers; Forfeiture Clauses and Events in Scots Law; Roderick R M Paisley; Revocation of Wills by Changed Circumstances; M C Schoeman-Malan; Fideicommissary Substitutions: Scots Law in Historical and Comparative Perspective; George Gretton; The Conditio si institutus sine liberis decesserit in Scots and South African Law; Alan R Barr; The New Dutch Law of Succession; Sjef van Erp; Revocability of Mutual Wills; Alexandra Braun; Succession Agreements in South African and Scots Law; Dale Hutchison.

An invaluable edition to the libraries of academics, policymakers and law reformers as well as practitioners specialising in the law of succession.