Richard Hyland

Gifts (eBook, ePUB)

A Study in Comparative Law

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Gifts: A Study in Comparative Law is the first broad-based study of the law governing the giving and revocation of gifts ever attempted. By observing the social and customary norms of gift-giving within internal and external legal parameters, Professor Richard Hyland observes with both legal and civil clarity the ways in which different civil and common law jurisdictions confront common issues.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: OUP eBook
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. Juni 2009
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780190451158
• Artikelnr.: 42727395

Autorenporträt

Richard Hyland is Distinguished Professor of Law at Rutgers University School of Law and an internationally recognized scholar of comparative law. He's received his M.F.A. in fiction from Columbia University, a Diplôme d'Études Approfondies (LL.M.) from the University of Paris 2, was a Fulbright Scholar at the Universities of Rome and Messina in Italy. He received his J.D. at the Boalt Hall Law School in the University of California, Berkley and his A.B. at Harvard College. Prof. Hyland's honors and services include the Council on Foreign Relations, the International Academy of Comparative Law, and the American Law Institute.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments
Chapter 1 The Context of Gift Law
A. Notions of the Gift
B. Approaches to Gift giving
Chapter 2 A Flexible Methodology for Comparative Law
A. A Critique of Functionalism
B. A Common Sense Approach to the Law of Gifts
Chapter 3 The Legal Concept of the Gift
A. Gratuitousness
B. The Subjective Factors: Agreement and Donative Intent
C. An Inter Vivos Transfer
D. The Gift Object
Chapter 4 Gift Capacity
A. The Capacity of the Donor
B. The Capacity of the Donee
Chapter 5 The Gift Promise
A. Introduction
B. Circumstances Permitting Enforcement
C. Gift Promise Formalities and the Executed Gift
D. Defenses and Other Limitations
Chapter 6 Making the Gift
A. The Disposition
B. Acceptance
C. Perfection
Chapter 7 Revocation
A. The Principle of Irrevocability
B. Circumstances Permitting Revocation
Chapter 8 The Place of the Gift in the Private Law
A. Gift as Contract
B. Other Legal Characterizations
C. Beyond the Reach of the Law
Index