Property Law

Code:

D401

Acronym:

DCOIS

Keywords
Classification	Keyword
OFICIAL	Legal Sciences

Instance: 2003/2004 - 2S

Active?	Yes
Course/CS Responsible:	Law

Objectives

• To give students a basic knowledge of the subject;


• To develop in the students an ability to put this knowledge into practice;


• To increase a critical attitude in the students with respect to the content and normative solutions.

Program

INTRODUCTION - On the rights of things in general

CHAPTER I – NOTION DE DIREITO DAS COISAS
1- Notion of the rights of things: the paradigm of dominium plenum. The major forms of ordering ownership.
2- Distinction between rights of things, rights of credit and rights of the person.
CHAPTER II – THE AIM OF THE RIGHTS OF THINGS
1- Legal notion of thing.
2- Classification of things

PART I - Provisional domain system

CHAPTER III – POSSESSION
1- Notion of possession. The major problems of possession.
2- Systems of ownership. The position of the Portuguese system.
3- Causal possession and formal possession. Possession and mere holding. Capacity to possess.
4- Rights and objects in terms of which they can be possessed.
5- Characteristics of possession.
6- Forms of acquiring possession.
7- Joint possession.
8- Effects of possession.

PART II - The definitive domain system

CHAPTER IV – Constitutional principles of the rights of things
1-Principles linked to the internal side of the law of property.
2-Principles linked to the external side of the law of property.

CHAPTER V – Characteristics of the rights of things
1-Characteristics linked to the internal side of the law of property.
2-Characteristics linked to the external side of the law of property.

CHAPTER VI – On rights in rem in particular
1- Right in rem in enjoyment
1.1- Property right. Forms of acquisition. Characteristics. Defence of property.Joint and shared ownership. Horizontal property.
1.2- Right of usufruct and right to use and of abode.
1.3- Building lease.
1.4- Praedial servitude.
1.5- Right in rem of periodic abode.
2-Rights in rem of guarantee
3-Rights in rem of acquisition

Main Bibliography

CARVALHO FERNANDES, João - Lições de Direitos Reais, Lisbon, 1997.

CARVALHO, Orlando de - Direito das Coisas, Coimbra, 1977.

CARVALHO, Orlando de - «Introdução à posse», Revista de Legislação e de Jurisprudência, year 122 and ff.

CARVALHO, Orlando de - «Terceiros para efeitos de registo», Boletim da Faculdade de Direito da Universidade de Coimbra, Vol. LXX, 1994, page. 97 f.

GONZÁLEZ, Lorenzo - Direitos Reais (Introdução), Lisbon, 1997.

LIMA, Pires de; VARELA, J. Antunes (com a colaboração de Henrique Mesquita) - Código Civil Anotado, Vol. III, Coimbra, 1984.

MENEZES CORDEIRO, António - A posse: perspectivas dogmáticas actuais, Coimbra, 1997.

MENEZES CORDEIRO, António - Direitos Reais, Lisbon, 1993.

MESQUITA, Henrique - Direitos Reais, Coimbra, 1967.

MESQUITA, Henrique - Obrigações reais e ónus reais, Coimbra, 1990.

MOUTEIRO GUERREIRO - Noções de Direito Registral (Predial e Comercial), Coimbra, 1994.

OLIVEIRA ASCENSÃO, José - Direito Civil – Reais, Coimbra, 1993.

PENHA GONÇALVES - Curso de Direitos Reais, Lisbon, 1997.

RODRIGUES, Manuel - A posse, 3rd edition, Coimbra, 1981.