This thesis examines the doctrine of positive prescription of landownership in Scots law, with particular reference to the written deed that is required in order to commence the prescriptive period. The first part of the thesis sets out the historical context in which this doctrine has developed. Due to the civilian foundations of Scots law, the thesis begins with a brief examination of the Roman law of acquisitive prescription. This examination is both historical and comparative as it emphasises the unusual nature of the Scots law doctrine of positive prescription in comparison to Roman and later civilian formulations of acquisitive prescription. The fact that the Scots law of positive prescription has an apparent antipathy to good faith is also analysed in this context. The Roman law examination is then followed by a description of the development of the Early Scots law of acquisitive prescription. This again demonstrates the difference of Scots law from both civilian acquisitive prescription and common law adverse possession. The Early Scots law material is also significant in illuminating the context in which the Scots law doctrine of positive prescription emerged. The existence of limitation based on possession alone is a feature of Early Scots law which is highlighted in this section. The second, and more extensive, part of the thesis focuses on doctrinal analysis of the written deed that is required in order to commence positive prescription in Scots law. This is in turn divided between an examination of the requirement of ex facie validity of the foundation writ and an examination of the requirement that the foundation writ must be habile to include the area in respect of which positive prescription is sought. The thesis demonstrates that the development of the doctrinal formulations of these concepts has not been free from some degree of confusion. However, it is shown that, in the case of ex facie validity, there is a solid principle of interpretation, grounded in consistent authority, which has only fallen from view in recent times. In the case of hability, the underlying principles are not so easily discerned. Nevertheless, it appears that particular principles may be present in respect of the interpretation of hability. The thesis concludes with a discussion of the current and future state of the law of positive prescription of landownership, with particular reference to the impact of land registration.

published_or_final_version / Public Administration / Master / Master of Social Sciences

This diploma thesis describes law history, present way of acqusition of imovable property and considerations about a future law adjustment of a civil law book.

The purpose with this work is to investigate how much effect the value decrease following the expropriation has on the total compensation for acquisitions on expropriation grounds and the extent of acquisitions of entire properties where value decrease may have occurred. The value decrease originates from the business, which expropriation is made for. This value decrease is compensated in the influence rule in the Expropriation Act (1972:719). The reason value decrease has an impact on the total compensation is because no surcharge is given the compensation in the influence rule. While it three years ago was instituted a surcharge of 25% in the Expropriation Act (EA) for the compensation for the property's value at the acquisition date. The strongest reason for the introduction of the surcharge was to strengthen the property rights of property owners when their properties are acquired on expropriations purposes. But the difference in surcharge means that the compensation will be inconsistent, depending on whether the value decrease has occurred or not. The arising of the difference in total compensation has emerged from studies of the EA and its propositions. Furthermore, it emerges from the Environmental Code that properties acquired in its entirety as a result of environmental damage, i.e. activities that lead to damage to other properties, will also be compensated in the influence rule and thus no surcharge will be given. To investigate how many properties that have been acquired on expropriation purposes, where damage may have occurred and is compensated through the influence rule, there has been an empirical study of Trafikverket´s property acquisitions. Furthermore, Malmberget has been included in efforts to highlight the extent of land acquisition where properties may be subject to damages under the influence rule. In the empirical study, 166 properties acquired by Trafikverket in the past three years have been studied. 44 of these have been acquired for the construction of roads or railroads, whose activities may have resulted in a value decrease on the properties acquired. 122 properties were probably acquired as a result of environmental damage. Results from the study show that the influence rule might have been used in several acquisitions made in recent years and therefore had an impact on the total compensation. As the full compensation does not get the surcharge of 25%, the compensation as mentioned earlier becomes inconsistent. This does not seem reasonable when the motive behind the proposition was to strengthen the ownership. Thus, it should be the loss of the owner right that gets compensated and therefore the compensation through the influence rule also should be given the surcharge. / Syftet med detta arbete är att undersöka hur stor inverkan företagsskada kan ha på den totala ersättningen vid förvärv på expropriationsgrunder och i vilken omfattning förvärv av hela fastigheter, där företagsskada kan ha förekommit, har skett. Företagsskada är den värdeminskning en verksamhet, vilken expropriation sker för, leder till på fastighet som ska förvärvas. Denna skada ska ersättas enligt influensregeln i expropriationslagen (1972:719). Anledning till att företagsskada har påverkan på den totala ersättningen är att det inte utgår något påslag för ersättning enligt influensregeln, medan det för tre år sedan instiftades ett påslag om 25 % i expropriationslagen (ExL) för den ersättning som ska utgå för fastighetens värde vid förvärvstillfället. Det starkaste motivet till att införa detta påslag var att stärka äganderätten för fastighetsägare när deras fastigheter förvärvas på expropriationsgrunder. Skillnaden med påslaget kan leda till att ersättningen blir inkonsekvent, beroende på om företagsskada föreligger eller inte. Att det uppkommer en skillnad i den totala ersättningen har framkommit i studier av ExL och dess propositioner. Vidare framkommer det av miljöbalken att fastigheter som förvärvas i sin helhet till följd av miljöskada, d.v.s. verksamhet som leder till skada på annan fastighet, även denna ska ersättas enligt influensregeln och inte ges något påslag. För att undersöka hur många fastigheter som har förvärvats på expropriationsgrunder, där skada som ska ersättas enligt influensregeln kan ha uppkommit, har en empirisk studie av Trafikverkets fastighetsförvärv gjorts. Vidare har även Malmberget inkluderats i arbetet för att belysa omfattning av fastighetsförvärv där fastigheter kan vara utsatta för skada enligt influensregeln. I den empiriska studien har 166 fastigheter förvärvade av Trafikverket under de tre senaste åren undersökts. 44 styckena av dessa har förvärvats för att uppföra anläggning, vars verksamhet kan ha lett till företagsskada på förvärvad fastighet. 122 styckena har troligen förvärvats till följd av miljöskada. Resultatet från studien visar att influensregeln kan ha använts vid flertalet förvärv under de senaste åren och därför haft en påverkan på den totala ersättningen. I och med att ersättningen i sin helhet inte ges påslaget om 25 % blir ersättningen som tidigare nämnt inkonsekvent. Detta känns inte skäligt då det i propositionen framgår att det är äganderätten som ska stärkas. Således bör det vid förlorande av äganderätt, till följd av förvärv på expropriationsgrunder, utgå ett påslag även för ersättning som ska bestämmas enligt influensregeln.

Acquisition of property from unauthorized person Abstract Acquisition of property from unauthorized person, the subject of the thesis, represents an original way of acquiring property rights and breakthrough to the civil law principle nemo plus iuris ad alium transfere potest quam ipse habet - no one can transfer more rights to another than they have themselves (nemo dat rule). The Civil Code allows for the right of ownership to pass to a bona fide transferee under certain conditions, even if from a person who lacked the appropriate authorization to transfer. The legislator thus takes into account, in particular, the protection of good faith as a general principle of law and the fact that, in the case of items not registered in public registers, it is not possible to establish reliably who is the owner. This thesis focuses on the acquisition of ownership rights from unauthorized person to movable property, the aim is to provide a general interpretation of the mentioned institute, to analyze the Civil Code regulation in relation to it and to compare it with foreign legislation. The thesis is divided into four parts, the first of which is devoted to the interpretation of the basic knowledge of civil law doctrine in relation to the subject, the inclusion of the institute in the system of property rights as a...