Property and publication of rights: the complete course

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Analyze a property problem by identifying the property, the right, its holder, its acquisition and its effects against third persons.

The syllabus

From the course Property & Publication of Rights
1. Classification of Property in Québec Civil Law
  Distinguish things, property and rights before selecting a legal regime.
  Up next14 minStep 1
2. Classification of Immovables in Québec Civil Law
  Apply the categories of immovables to land, structures and connected property.
  14 minStep 2
3. Classification of Movables in Québec Civil Law
  Classify corporeal and incorporeal movables and identify special treatment.
  15 minStep 3
4. Patrimony and Real Rights in Québec Civil Law
  Connect patrimony, real rights and personal rights without conflating them.
  14 minStep 4
5. Public and Private Property in Québec
  Identify who holds property and whether its public destination changes the analysis.
  14 minStep 5
6. Possession and detention: facts, proof and legal effects
  Distinguish possession from detention and assess the qualities of possession.
  14 minStep 6
7. Ownership: powers, extent and legal limits
  Determine the powers and extent of ownership before considering its limits.
  15 minStep 7
8. Ownership Limits: Abuse of Rights and Neighbourhood Disturbances
  Separate abuse of rights from liability for abnormal neighbourhood disturbances.
  14 minStep 8
9. Water, Trees and Common Fences in Quebec Property Law
  Apply neighbouring-owner rules to water, trees, boundaries and shared works.
  14 minStep 9
10. Access, Views, and Passage Between Neighbouring Properties
  Analyze access, openings and passage by identifying the right and its conditions.
  17 minStep 10
11. Undivided Co-ownership: Shares, Decisions and Exit
  Connect each co-owner’s share to use, administration, alienation and partition.
  15 minStep 11
12. Divided Co-ownership: Title, Collective Decisions and Building Care
  Read the declaration, identify the organs and allocate co-ownership responsibilities.
  17 minStep 12
13. Superficies: Separate Ownership of Buildings and Land
  Distinguish separate ownership of constructions from rights over another person’s land.
  14 minStep 13
14. Usufruct and Use: Enjoyment, Expenses and Restitution
  Allocate enjoyment, preservation duties and restitution between the holders of rights.
  16 minStep 14
15. Servitudes: Title, Permitted Use, and Extinction
  Identify the dominant and servient lands and test creation, exercise and extinction.
  15 minStep 15
16. Emphyteusis: Development, Financing, and Return of the Immovable
  Assess the improvement undertaking, duration and powers of the emphyteuta.
  15 minStep 16
17. Acquisition by Occupation in Quebec Civil Law
  Determine whether property may be acquired by occupation and distinguish found property.
  14 minStep 17
18. Acquisition by Accession: Improvements, Land and Movables
  Identify the principal property and apply the consequences of natural or artificial accession.
  15 minStep 18
19. Acquisitive Prescription: Possession, Time and Judicial Recognition
  Connect useful possession, time, judicial recognition and competing titles.
  15 minStep 19
20. Trusts: Creating and Administering a Separate Patrimony
  Identify the trust patrimony, its purpose and the powers and duties of its participants.
  16 minStep 20
21. Foundations: Devoting Property to a Lasting Social Purpose
  Distinguish the foundation’s purpose, property and legal form.
  16 minStep 21
22. Administration of Another's Property
  Determine the administrator’s powers, duties, liability and accounting obligations.
  16 minStep 22
23. Publication of Rights in Québec Civil Law
  Separate validity, publication, opposability and rank when examining competing rights.
  18 minStep 23

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