Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Original acquisition
- occupatio
- ownerless property
- abandoned property belongs to the Crown: Lord
Advocate v University of Aberdeen & Budge
- Must be an act of taking, and it must be “sufficient”
- Accession
- physical union
- Permanency
- Functional subordination
- Effects
- Accessory becomes part
of the principal
- Conversion
- Extinction of title to accessory
- Policy considerations
- Law will avoid breaking up
- Law will avoid rendering property useless
- Brand’s Trustees v Brand’s Trustees/
objective application of the law
- Accession of moveables to land
- Physical union
- Christie v Smith’s Executrix
- Functional subordination
- Leigh v Taylor
- Permanence
- Degree of permanence, but quasi permanence sufficient
- Moveables to moveables
- Land to land
- Must not be merely temporary
- Must be gradual
- Accession by fruits
- animals in utero
- Trees, plants, crops
- natural products
- Specificatio
- inseparable
- McDonald v Provan
- Wylie Lochhead v Mitchell
- Kinloch Damph Ltd v Nordvik Salmon Farms
- No consent
- General rules
- things of the same type are mixed
without prior agreement, and can be
separated, ownership doesn’t change.
- Where things of the same
kind are mixed without prior
agreement but cannot
practically be separated,
mixture is common property,
with ownership in proportion
to contribution
- Where mixing occurs with prior
agreement, the mixture is
common property
- Where new species of thing
is created: specification
- Commixtio and confusio
- common property- proportion to value of
the constituent materials
- materials not substantially the same- specificatio applies
- solids or fluids