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DROI2216-3

Law of property (aspects of public law and private law)


Duration :75h Th
Credits/ECTS :
2nd "licence" in law9
Holder(s) :Pascale Lecocq, Michel Pâques
Course contents : Civil law aspects.

After a study of various classifications or things and rights, especially the one into chattels and real property, the notions of possession and detention will be addressed. Indeed, possession constitutes the basis of several “original ways” of acquiring property that must be studied, in particular acquisitive prescriptionand the mechanism of article 2279 of the civil Code.
Land registration stemming from the statute of 1851 will then retain our attention, before we address the vast topic of property (its characteristics, the problems of proof and the rei vindicatio) and mainly immovable property (in particular the matters of accession, demarcation and close). Next, co-ownership and joint-ownership will be examined, as well as the theories of abuse of right and neighborhood troubles.
Finally , we study the main real rights : usufruct (as well as the real rights of “use” and “inhabit”) and easements, essentially easements created by man.

Public Law Aspects
Legislative acts allowing interference with property rights for many a general interest were announced by the Code civil itself (art. 544, 552) but are now numerous and sophisticated. Protection of the res communes, partly scheduled by the same Code (art. 714), allows major interference with several rights and freedoms, not only with property rights. Town and country planning, housing, energy supply, sustainable development, conservation of a sound environment (soils, waste, water, hazardous plants, nature, …) are organised by legislative acts adopted at every normative level (International, EU, national, regional level). Those acts are numerous and changing. Mandatory steps for individuals as interdictions, authorisations, positive obligations to facere, are common place but other means are also used as voluntary or incentive action.

Scope of the course
-sovereignty and property
-the environment and the law
-basic tools and principles of law and order and administrative law aiming at environmental conservation or protecting other general interests and encroaching on property rights
-rules governing the division of powers of the EU, the federal State, and the regions in property regulation and environmental matters
-normative action, planning
-administrative action : sites designation, authorisation, notification,…
-participation and impact assessment
-how to combine the many tools
-deprivation, limitation and compensation
-State real estate law
Course objective : Civil law aspects.

The aim is to teach students the basic principles of real estate, mainly through the study of property and “main real rights”.

Public Law Aspects
To have a thorough knowledge of the methods of the administrative law and policy on property regulation, town and country planning, on environmental protection and other matters interfering with property rights. The most important case law and decrees are read. Deep knowledge of the fast changing positive law is not the first target. But the student will get the ability to analyse laws and other sources of law and to solve complex problems.
Prerequisites : Other courses that must be passed:
Introduction to law
Obligations
Constitutional Law
Administrative Law
Workshops : The student has to prepare the lessons.
Organization : First semester.
Ex cathedra and self study; case law comment preparation
Written notes : Partim civil law : code civil and other legal dispositions are necessary. Detailled plan.

Learning tools Partim Aspects de droit public

Legal materials
-The Constitution, the most important laws on environmental protection and town and country planning( Ad hoc “Codes” are not mandatory but are useful )
-Handbook written by Prof. Michel Pâques, Droit public des biens, de l’urbanisme et de l’environnement, vol. 1 and 2, Editions de l’Université de Liège, latest edition.
-Case book, Droit public des biens, de l’urbanisme et de l’environnement, by Prof Michel Pâques, Editions de l’Université de Liège, latest edition.
Assessment : Oral exam. Time of preparation.

Only one grade for the two partim.
Contacts : Civil law service : Law of property, Evidence, B31
prof. : P. LECOCQ, office, I.23, tél. : 04/3663095,
email : Pascale.Lecocq@ulg.ac.be

Assistants : Bernard VANBRABANT (mi-temps), office I.22, tél. : 04/3663096,
email: B.VanBrabant@ulg.ac.be
Sophie BOUFFLETTE (mi-temps),office I.22, tél. : 04/3663096,
email : S.Boufflette@ulg.ac.be
Marie DESMARE (mi-temps),office R.9, tél. : 04/3663001,
email : marie.desmare@ulg.ac.be

Public Law service :
Prof. Dr. Michel Pâques
Service de droit public et administratif, Box 55
Building B31, Room I (7-9), Phone. +32 4 366 30 31.
Sylviane Leprince, Sabrina Charneux et Laurence Renoy, Assistant, Building B31, Room R14,
Phone +32 4 366 30 30; +32 4 366 34 83.
E-mail Sylviane.Leprince@ulg.ac.be sabrina.charneux@ulg.ac.be Michel.Paques@ulg.ac.be
Secretary : Mlle Vanesse, Phone +32 4 366 31 57; Adeline.Vanesse@ulg.ac.be

Secretaryship : N. BLEVE, office I.77, tél. : 04/3663190
mailbox at the university : box 16




ULg : Students and Studies Administration - Academic Affairs
Contact : Monique Marcourt, direction A.E.E.
Date of data : 27/02/2006
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