The Edinburgh Centre for Private Law (ECPL), founded in 2009, exists to foster and develop the long tradition of private law scholarship in Edinburgh. Building on Edinburgh’s position as a major university within Europe’s main mixed jurisdiction, much of the research carried out by its members examines Scots law in a European context or fosters a dialogue between the civilian tradition and the common law.
This book examines those cases where a person is promised a future inheritance and, having acted on it, later discovers that the promise is unfulfilled. It maps and compares various form of redress available to testamentary promisees in a number of jurisdictions, and across both common law and civil law jurisdictions
