Essays in Conveyancing and Property Law in Honour of Professor Robert Rennie.
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Intro -- Contents -- Contributors -- Preface -- Note -- 1. Robert Rennie - A Career Retrospective -- 2. "Tell Me Don't Show Me" and the Fall and Rise of the Conveyancer -- 3. A Puzzling Case about Possession -- 4. "It's in the Post": Distance Contracting in Scotland 1681-1855 -- 5. Assignations of All Sums Securities -- 6. Property Law, Fiduciary Obligations and the Constructive Trust -- 7. The Offside Goals Rule and Fraud on Creditors -- 8. A New Era in Conveyancing: Advance Notices and the Land Registration etc. (Scotland) Act 2012 -- 9. Bona Fide Acquisition: New in Scottish Land Law? -- 10. Res Merae Facultatis: Through a Glass Darkly -- 11. The Use of Praedial Servitudes to Benefit Land outside the Dominant Tenement -- 12. Enforcing Repairing Obligations by Specific Implement -- 13. Two Questions in the Law of Leases -- 14. Conveyancing: A Bright Digital Future? -- 15. Islamic Mortgages -- 16. Completion of the Land Register: The Scottish Approach -- 17. Primary Clients, Secondary Clients, Surrogate Clients and Non-Clients - the Expanding Duty of Care of Scottish Solicitors -- 18. The Court and the Conveyancing Expert -- 19. The Role of the Expert Witness in Professional Negligence Litigation -- 20. Robert Rennie: A Bibliography -- Index.