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18 Edinburgh L. Rev. 1 (2014)

handle is hein.journals/edinlr18 and id is 1 raw text is: The Edinburgh Law Review 18.1 (2014): 1-28
Edinburgh University Press
DOI: 10.3366/elr.2014.0185
@ Edinburgh Law Review Trust and the Contributors
www.euppublishing.com/elr
Enforcing the Liferenter's
Obligation to Repair
Phillip Hellwege*
A. INTRODUCTION
B. THE ROMAN LAW
(1) The obligation to repair
(2) The obligation to repair and the cautio usufructuaria
(3) The obligation to repair in absence of the cautio usufructuaria
C. THE DEVELOPMENT IN THE CONTINENTAL IUS COMMUNE
(1) The duty to repair and the cautio usufructuaria
(2) Right to dispense with cautio usufructuaria
(3) An obediential or a conventional approach?
D. THE DEVELOPMENT IN SCOTLAND
(1) The statutory law
(2) The institutional writers
(3) The case law
E. THE AFTERMATH OF STRONACH'S EXECUTORS V
ROBERTSON
A. INTRODUCTION
A liferenter has the right to use the fiar's property. Furthermore, he has the right
to possession. Only after termination of the liferent can the fiar take up possession
and use the property himself. In the meantime, the fiar will want the liferenter
to maintain the property, for example, to carry out repairs. In 2002 the Court of
Chair of Private Law, Commercial Law and Legal History, University of Augsburg. This article is
based on the authors Habilitationsvortrag at the University of Regensburg on 22 July 2009. It was
first published as Die Erhaltung der Nieibrauchssache: Ra6misches Recht, gemeines Recht und
schottisches Recht (2011) 79 Tijdschrift voor Rechtsgeschiedenis 81. My thanks go to George Gretton
for his helpful comments on an earlier draft of the English version of this article. All remaining errors
are of course mine.

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