Have you ever asked how other legal systems deal with complex issues in the ownership of land and movable property? This instalment completes volume VI, Property and Trust, of the International Encyclopedia of Comparative Law. It surveys current international issues in these areas of law. It identifies the main models of ownership in the world today and compares them in depth, point for point. The chapter concerning immovable property explores the emergence of modern legal systems from feudalism and the achievement of other reforms. It explains what the main systems of land ownership have in common and where they depart from each other. The chapters of this instalment cut through the difficult terminology typically found in these fields but do not over-simplify topics, inviting you to experience the intellectual context of how different modern legal systems regulate ownership of and transactions with movable and immovable property.
