George Gretton
Scottish legal scholar
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, George Lidderdale Gretton WS FRSE is a Scottish lawyer and academic and, from May 2006 to May 2011, was a Commissioner of the Scottish Law Commission. Career Gretton had his early education at West House School and King Edward's, Birmingham. In 1972 he graduated with a 2:1 degree in Philosophy and English Literature at the University of Durham . He then read law at the University of Edinburgh. He was appointed to a lectureship in law at the university in 1981. He became Lord President Reid Professor of Law in 1994 and held the chair until his retirement in 2016 when he became Professor Emeritus. He has published widely on commercial law, property law, trusts, insolvency law, comparative law and legal history; he is a Solicitor, a Notary Public and a Writer to the Signet.
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Published Works
- The Laws of the Game (2012) (107)
- Constructive Trusts: II (1997) (38)
- Trusts Without Equity (2000) (32)
- A History of Private Law in Scotland (2000) (27)
- The Law of Property in Scotland (1996) (20)
- Sexually Transmitted Debt (1999) (10)
- Ownership and its Objects (2007) (10)
- The Protection of Property Rights (2002) (8)
- Security Rights in Movable Property in European Private Law: The case studies (2004) (8)
- Private Law and Human Rights (2008) (7)
- Reception without Integration?: Floating Charges and Mixed Systems (2003) (7)
- Registration of Company Charges (2002) (7)
- Property Trusts and Succession (2009) (4)
- Equitable Ownership in Scots Law (2001) (3)
- Principles of European Insolvency Law (2005) (3)
- Owning Rights and Things (1997) (3)
- Reform of Security over Moveable Property (2012) (3)
- The Law of Inhibition and Adjudication (1996) (3)
- Constructive Trusts (1997) (3)
- Conversations With The Bewildered (1972) (2)
- The Reform of Moveable Security Law (1999) (2)
- Ownership and Insolvency: Burnett's Trustee v Grainger (2004) (2)
- Quaedam Meditationes Caledoniae: The Property/Succession Borderland (2014) (2)
- Radical Rights and Radical Wrongs: A Study in the Law of Trusts, Securities and Insolvency (1986) (2)
- The law and the constitution in the Sudan (1968) (2)
- Fideicommissary Substitutions: Scots Law in Historical and Comparative Perspective (2007) (2)
- Financial Collateral and the Fundamentals of Secured Transactions (2006) (2)
- Constructive Trusts and Insolvency (2000) (2)
- Legal Science or Law-Lite? (2006) (1)
- SOUTHERN CROSS: CIVIL LAW AND COMMON LAW IN SOUTH AFRICA. Ed by Reinhard Zimmermann and Daniel Visser Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1996. c and 892 pp (incl index). ISBN 0 19 826087 3. £65 (1997) (1)
- Retention of Title in Romalpa Clauses (1983) (1)
- Prescription and the Foreclosure of Adjudications (1983) (1)
- Unjustified Enrichment: Proprietary issues (2002) (1)
- Exploring the Law of Succession: Fideicommissary Substitutions: Scots Law in Historical and Comparative Perspective (2007) (1)
- Security Rights in Movable Property in European Private Law: Motor cars supplied and resold (II) (2004) (1)
- The Integrity of Property Law and the Integrity of the Registers (2001) (1)
- Upsetting the Apple-Cart: Standard Securities before the Supreme Court (2011) (1)
- Good news for bankers - bad news for lawyers? (1999) (1)
- Scots Law in a Golden Age (1999) (1)
- Of Law Commissioning (2013) (1)
- Retention of Title for All Sums: A Reply (1993) (1)
- Security Rights in Movable Property in European Private Law: Bibliographies (2004) (1)
- Insolvency and Title: A Reply (1985) (1)
- Elizabeth Mertz, The Language of Law School: Learning to “Think like a Lawyer” (2007) (1)
- Security Rights in Movable Property in European Private Law: Bank loan for a wholesaler (2004) (0)
- Bank loan on the basis of a car fleet (2004) (0)
- Striking the Balance (2001) (0)
- Commercial Trusts in European Private Law: Investment duties (2005) (0)
- Commercial Trusts in European Private Law: Basic insolvency situation (2005) (0)
- COMMISE 1204: STUDIES IN THE HISTORY AND LAW OF CONTINENTAL AND INSULAR NORMANDY. Ed by Gordon Dawes St Peter Port, Guernsey: The Guernsey Bar (www.guernseybar.com), 2005. ISBN 0955039509. £30. (2008) (0)
- Security Rights in Movable Property in European Private Law: Indebted businessman sells business to brother (2004) (0)
- Jackets for resale (2004) (0)
- Scotland and the Supreme Court (2003) (0)
- Charles Sydney Le Gros, TRAITÉ DU DROIT COUTUMIER DE L’ÎLE DE JERSEY St Helier, Jersey: Jersey & Guernsey Law Review (www.jerseylaw.je/Publications/JerseyLawReview), 2007. xii + 590 pp. ISBN 9780955761102. £21. (2009) (0)
- Pye: A Scottish View (2007) (0)
- 15. Islamic Mortgages (2015) (0)
- Kaur v Singh (1998) (0)
- Sale of Heritable Property and Failure to Pay (2012) (0)
- Security Rights in Movable Property in European Private Law: Finance leasing of computers (2004) (0)
- Essays in Conveyancing and Property Law (2016) (0)
- Breach of Arrestment (1991) (0)
- Scottish Conveyancing Legislation (1998) (0)
- Software: Binding the End User (1996) (0)
- Out in front (1968) (0)
- Commercial Trusts in European Private Law: Securitisation (2005) (0)
- Conveyancing in the Electronic Age (2008) (0)
- Commercial Trusts in European Private Law: Pensions funds (2005) (0)
- Case note, Short's Trustee v. Keeper of the Registers, Scottish Civil Case Reports (1996) (0)
- Table of legislation (2004) (0)
- Scots Law in Shock (1999) (0)
- Security Rights in Movable Property in European Private Law: General editors' preface (2004) (0)
- Security over Movables in Scots Law (2010) (0)
- Sharp v. Thomson, House of Lords (Lord Brown-Wilkinson, Lord Keith of Kinkel, Lord Jauncey of Tullichettle, Lord Steyn and Lord Clyde) 27 February 1997, [1997] SLT 636 (1998) (0)
- Commercial Trusts in European Private Law: Tracing (2005) (0)
- Gerard McCormack, Secured Credit Under English and American Law (2006) (0)
- Commercial Trusts in European Private Law: Conflict of interest (2005) (0)
- A History of Private Law in Europe. By Wieacker Franz. Translated by Weir Tony. [Oxford: Clarendon Press. 1995. xvii + 509 pp. ISBN 0-19-825861-5. £55] (1996) (0)
- Security Rights in Movable Property in European Private Law: Bank loan on the basis of money claims (II) (2004) (0)
- Andrew Ferguson, Common Good Law (2007) (0)
- Lilian Edwards and Anne Griffiths, Family Law (2007) (0)
- Retention of Title for All Sums (1993) (0)
- Romalpa Clauses: The Current Position (1985) (0)
- Who Owns Partnership Property (1987) (0)
- Book Reviews (1995) (0)
- Malcolm M Combe, The Scotways Guide to the Law of Access to Land in Scotland (2019) (0)
- Security Rights in Movable Property in European Private Law: Table of legislation (2004) (0)
- Fergal F Davis, The History and Development of Special Criminal Court, 1922-2005 (2008) (0)
- Supply of material to manufacturer (II) (2004) (0)
- Peter Willoughby, MISPLACED TRUST Gostick Hall Publications, Saffron Walden: 1999. xv and 149 pp. ISBN 0 9533599 5 6 (pb). £40. (2000) (0)
- Security Rights in Movable Property in European Private Law: Preface (2004) (0)
- The deceived seller (2004) (0)
- The Quistclose Trust (2004) (0)
- William J Stewart, Reparation: Liability for Delict (2004) (0)
- Security Rights in Movable Property in European Private Law: Supply of material to manufacturer (II) (2004) (0)
- Servitudes and Uninfeft Proprietors (1997) (0)
- Missives and Deposit in Scots Law: Diachronic and Comparative Reflections about the Concept of Arrha (2015) (0)
- Electronic Banking and the Law , 2nd ed., by Anu Arora (1995) (0)
- A M Dawson (ed), Reflections on Law and History (2007) (0)
- Security Rights in Movable Property in European Private Law: Machinery supplied to be used by the buyer (2004) (0)
- Andy Wightman, THE POOR HAD NO LAWYERS: WHO OWNS SCOTLAND AND HOW THEY GOT IT Edinburgh: Birlinn (www.birlinn.co.uk ), 2010. xii + 339 pp. ISBN 9781841589077. £20. (2011) (0)
- Gordon Dawes, Laws of Guernsey; Sir Philip Bailhache (ed.), A Celebration of Autonomy 1204–2004: 800 Years of Channel Islands' Law (2008) (0)
- Insolvency and Title (1985) (0)
- RULES FOR THE TRANSFER OF MOVABLES: A CANDIDATE FOR EUROPEAN HARMONISATION OR NATIONAL REFORMS? Ed by Wolfgang Faber and Brigitta Lurger Munich: Sellier (www.sellier.de), 2008. xi + 268 pp. ISBN 9783866530607. €39. (2009) (0)
- Commercial Trusts in European Private Law: Creation and termination of the management relationship; powers of the manager (2005) (0)
- 3-D Vision is Difficult: Dissolution, Death, Divorce (2020) (0)
- Farewell to their Lordships (2005) (0)
- Trust and Patrimony (1996) (0)
- Communism and colonialism : essays (1964) (0)
- Oliver Radley-Gardner, Hugh Beale, Reinhard Zimmermann and Reiner Schulze (eds.), Fundamental Texts on European Private Law (2004) (0)
- Review of F. Wieacker History of Private Law in Europe (1996) (0)
- Commercial Trusts in European Private Law: Choice of law (2005) (0)
- Security Rights in Movable Property in European Private Law: Too many toasters (2004) (0)
- Alastair N Brown, Human Rights Act 1998 (2004) (0)
- Thomas Glyn Watkin, The Legal History of Wales (2007) (0)
- Swaps and Unjustified Enrichment (1996) (0)
- Commercial Trusts in European Private Law: Multiple debenture holders (2005) (0)
- Symposium: Reforming Intestate Succession Law (2019) (0)
- Casenote on Kaur v Singh (1997) (0)
- Commercial Trusts in European Private Law: Collective investment schemes (2005) (0)
- Andrew Burrows and Lord Rodger of Earlsferry (eds), Mapping the Law: Essays in memory of Peter Birks (2007) (0)
- Security Rights in Movable Property in European Private Law: Furniture for a new office (2004) (0)
- Martijn W Hesselink (ed), The Politics of a European Civil Code; Peter A J van den Berg, The Politics of European Codification (2008) (0)
- Commercial Trusts in European Private Law: Insolvency of investment manager (2005) (0)
- Missives by Fax or PDF (2010) (0)
- W M Gloag and R C Henderson, THE LAW OF SCOTLAND, 12th edn by Lord Coulsfield and Hector L MacQueen (general editors) Edinburgh: W Green & Son Ltd (www.wgreen.co.uk), 2007. ccxcix+1344pp. ISBN 9780414015913. £185. (2008) (0)
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