Rules for the transfer of movables : a candidate for European harmonisation or national reform? / edited by Wolfgang Faber, Brigitta Lurger.

Contributions to an international conference held in Salzburg, Germany on Feb. 15-16, 2007.

Includes bibliographical references.

Introduction to the project 'Transfer of movables' : organisational framework, basic issues and goals / Brigitta Lurger -- Consensual versus delivery systems in European private law--consensus about tradition? / Vincent Sagaert -- Private autonomy in property law : can the parties 'design' their transfer? / Kai Kullerkupp -- An abstract or a causal system / Steven Bartels -- How Swedish lawyers think about 'ownership' and 'transfer of ownership'--are we just peculiar or actually ahead? / Claes Martinson -- Scepticism about the functional approach from a unitary perspective / Wolfgang Faber -- The relationship between transfer rules and rules on creditors' avoidance of debtor's transactions / Carloine Cauffman -- How to draft new rules on the bona fide acquisition of movables for Europe? : some remarks on method and content / Arthur F. Salomons -- Good faith acquisition--why at all? / José Caramelo-Gomes -- Fiduciary transfer and ownership / Selma de Groot -- Obligatory and proprietary rights : where to draw the dividing line--if at all? / Eleanor Cashin Ritaine -- The german property law and its principles--some lessons for a European property law / Jens Thomas Füller -- Intellectual property rights : 'property' or 'right'? : the application of the transfer rules to intellectual property / Mary-Rose McGuire -- Unification in the field of property law from the perspective of European law / José Caramelo-Gomes -- Transfer of ownership in recent reform projects : Estonia / Kai Kullerkupp -- Protection and transfer of possession / Luboš Tichý.

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HauptbeschreibungComparative research in the area of property law is gaining importance. Against the background of the current discussion of developing model rules, aimed at facilitating European private law harmonisation, and of ongoing law reform projects in a number of EU Member States, this volume addresses key issues in the field of the transfer of corporeal movable property. Authors from various European countries discuss classical issues of property law, such as the dichotomies of "consensual" versus "delivery" and "causal" versus "abstract" transfer systems, good faith acquisition and t.

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