Category Archives: Property
Natia Nakashidze, ‘Inheritance Law in Georgia: Acceptance of Inheritance, Heirs’ Rights, Escheat Property, Judicial Practice, and the 2026 Reform’
ABSTRACT This article examines inheritance law in Georgia, with particular emphasis on the acceptance of inheritance, heirs’ rights, intestate and testamentary succession, estate property, inheritance registration, escheat property, and the legislative reform effective from 1 July 2026. It analyses the relevant provisions of the Civil Code of Georgia, including Article 1343, together with the jurisprudence […]
Jasper Verstappen, ‘Towards an Ontology of Property Law and Digital Assets: A Comparative Analysis of German, French and English Law’
ABSTRACT Digital assets challenge property law’s ontology of things. National property laws diverge as to the types of digital assets recognised as property as well as the degree of recognition afforded. Their lack of a physical instantiation, coupled with the fact that digital assets are neither contingent upon recognition by the legal system nor upon […]
Price and Ali, ‘Broken Circles: Contract Law’s Flawed and Inconsistent Treatment of the Return of Engagement Rings Following a Pre-Marriage Breakup and a Modest Proposal for Reform’
ABSTRACT The question of what jurisprudential model should govern the question of who should be awarded an engagement ring following a failed engagement has vexed courts, wasted judicial resources, resulted in a morass of inconsistent and jurisdictionally varying results, and left parties uncertain and litigious for decades. The question has social, feminist, historical, and economic […]
Craig Wright, ‘Property in Information: A Formal Analysis of Forty-Five Works’
ABSTRACT This paper analyses forty-five works on property in information under a single method applied without variation to every author: premises are isolated in the author’s own words and rendered in a formal notation, examined singly, then reassembled into the arguments they compose and tested for validity, with every fallacy named by its standard name […]
Givati and Rigbi, ‘The Economic Consequences of Insecure Property Rights’
ABSTRACT Secure property rights support efficient allocation and investment, yet their effects in affluent urban markets remain understudied. We examine Jerusalem properties built on church-owned land under 99-year leases approaching expiration, creating substantial legal and political uncertainty. Using all residential transactions from 2004-2024, we compare nearby properties with secure and insecure rights within the same […]
‘The Biggest Shake-Up of English Family Law in Over Two Decades?’
On 5 June 2026 the government published a Consultation Document titled ‘A Fairer End to Relationships’. This consultation will close on 14 August 2026. If the proposed changes are later introduced into legislation, the practical implications for families (and family law practitioners alike) in England and Wales could be significant and will mark the biggest […]
Jing and Low, ‘So What if Digital Assets are Third Things?’
ABSTRACT Yuen v Li [2026] EWHC 532 (KB) is the first English decision to consider the legal treatment of digital assets after the passing of the Property (Digital Assets etc) Act 2025. The case shows that recognising digital assets as possible ‘third things’ does little to settle what legal consequences follow. In particular, it leaves […]
Claire-Michelle Smyth, ‘Deathbed gifts after Wills reform: digital dominion, testamentary formality and the future of Donatio Mortis Causa’
ABSTRACT This article examines the future of donatio mortis causa in light of proposed reforms to Wills law and the growth of digital wealth. It argues that statutory dispensing powers and electronic wills weaken the justification for expanding deathbed gifts. Comparative analysis of New South Wales, New Zealand and British Columbia demonstrates that testamentary informality […]
Jordana Goodman, ‘Property Rights in Liquid Gold: Recognizing Breastmilk as Property’
ABSTRACT Breastmilk is a highly valued commodity. It is produced, stored, transferred, sold, and, at times, contaminated, stolen, improperly handled, and even lost. Litigants have largely sought remedies related to breastmilk under employment, family, and health law frameworks, consistently failing to bring claims directly related to the loss of property-the milk itself. These frameworks consistently […]
Albert Tan, ‘Final, but Not Yours: Protocol Finality, Private Law and The Allocation of Digital-Asset Loss’
ABSTRACT A system for ordering transactions is not a law of ownership, and the Bitcoin protocol was never meant to be the second thing. It settles the sequence in which transactions are recorded. It does not decide who, as between rival claimants, is entitled to what has moved. The distinction is not a technicality. It […]