Legal certainty in real estate transactions : a comparison of England and France / editors: Bertrand du Marais and David Marrani.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Du Marais, Bertrand, editor.

Marrani, David, editor.

Series:

Ius commune europaeum ; 147.

Ius commune europaeum ; 147

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Vendors and purchasers--England.

Vendors and purchasers.

Vendors and purchasers--France.

Commercial real estate--England.

Commercial real estate.

Commercial real estate--France.

Legal certainty--England.

Legal certainty.

Legal certainty--France.

France.

England.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (viii, 133 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Intersentia, 2016.

System Details:

text file

PDF

Summary:

This comparative research was triggered by the assessment of property registration law published in the World Bank Doing Business reports (DB). The international and interdisciplinary team aimed to assess how legal certainty was imagined and put in practice in French and English law, using commercial real estate as a case study. Not only this study identifies the economic impact of the law in both jurisdictions, it also looked at the practitioners' functions in the dealing with commercial real estate transactions. In other words, it analyses the topical position of practitioners such as the French notaires and the role of solicitors in England. Nowadays, the profession of notaires is confronted to numerous challenges. For instance, nationality requirement for its access, has been ruled by the ECJ as contrary to the freedom of establishment and art. 49 TFEU and not justified by the exercise of public authority". In this study, the authors argue that the actual nature and the quality of the work done by the practitioners should be considered as well as financial cost and delays. They also argue that a liberalisation of professions such as civil law notaires would have very little impact on the cost associated with doing business. As a matter of fact both the English and the French mechanisms are very similar in their objectives and outcome even though they handle the same transaction differently, because of the culturally different relevant angles.

Contents:

Comparing legal certainty in France and England / Bertrand du Marais and David Marrani

Introductory remarks on comparative law and interdisciplinarity / David Marrani

What is legal certainty? A theoretical essay / Régis Lanneau

Contractual certainty under English contract law / Youseph Farah

Comparing company law / Marios Koutsias

How to and why measure the efficiency of real estate transactions in France? / Camille Bourdaire-Mignot and Aurore Chaigneau

Overview of how a real estate transaction is conducted in France / Marie-France Nicolas-Maguin

Property transactions in English law : general principles / Peter Luther

Commercial leases in English law / Alan Moran

Introductory remarks on legal security : the approach of French and European law / Jean-Sylvestre Bergé

An assessment of theoretical proposals to deal with heterogeneous small samples / Philippe Frouté

Comparative law, "economic attractiveness of law" and legal certainty : some concluding remarks from a pilot project / Bertrand du Marais.

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ISBN:

9781780687285

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