French Property and Inheritance Law: Principles and PracticeThis work offers practical guidance to lawyers and other professionals advising clients on property transactions and related matters in France including buying and selling land, ownership of flats and leases, and the establishment of companies to own land. |
Contents
Compromis de vente | 4 |
Promesse de vente | 5 |
Immovable property in French | 13 |
La copropriété | 15 |
The sale of land | 25 |
The sale price | 39 |
Promesse de vente | 51 |
Completion | 59 |
Land and its taxation | 209 |
Capacity | 223 |
Inheritance | 233 |
Domicile and residence | 241 |
The English trust | 247 |
Intestate succession | 255 |
La réserve | 261 |
Avoiding the réserve | 267 |
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Property owning companies | 83 |
The Société Civile dAttribution | 95 |
Pluripropriété | 97 |
Sales en viager | 105 |
Sales by auction | 111 |
Charges on property | 119 |
La copropriété | 129 |
Joint ownership of land | 147 |
Residential leases | 159 |
Business leases | 173 |
Powers of attorney | 185 |
The régime matrimonial | 195 |
Union libre | 201 |
The surviving spouse | 273 |
Wills | 285 |
Donationpartage and donation de biens à venir | 295 |
The exécuteur testamentaire | 301 |
The beneficiarys election | 305 |
Saisine | 313 |
Legacies | 317 |
Administration of an estate | 323 |
Gifts inter vivos | 331 |
Inheritance and gifts tax | 339 |
AppendixPrecedents | 353 |
Glossary | 421 |
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Common terms and phrases
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