Property Law

Code:

D401

Acronym:

DCOIS

Keywords
Classification	Keyword
OFICIAL	Legal Sciences

Instance: 2004/2005 - 1S

Active?	Yes
Course/CS Responsible:	Law

Cycles of Study/Courses

Acronym	No. of Students	Study Plan	Curricular Years	Credits UCN	Credits ECTS	Contact hours	Total Time
D	156	Official Study Plan - LD	4	-	7	-

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

Orlando de Carvalho,Direito das Coisas, Coimbra, 1977. Introdução à posse, RLJ, ano 122º e sgts.
Teoria Geral da Relação Jurídica, Sumários desenvolvidos

P. Lima/A. Varela./H. Mesquita, Código Civil Anotado, vol. III. Carvalho Fernandes, Lições de Direitos Reais, Lisboa, 1997. Menezes Cordeiro, Direitos Reais, Lisboa, 1993.
Oliveira Ascensão, Direito Civil- Reais, Coimbra, 1993.
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.

Teaching methods and learning activities

Theoretical classes: Exposition of the contents of the discipline Practical classes: The students have to solve practical exercises

Evaluation Type

Evaluation with final exam

Eligibility for exams

The marks the student must get have to be equal or higher than 10, in a scale of [0,20] in one of the following hypotheses:

a)Written final examination;
b)Oral final examination (if the student obtained in a) a mark between 7 and 9.

Calculation formula of final grade

Are the marks obtained in the examinations referred in “Frequency Attaining”

Examinations or Special Assignments

None

Special assessment (TE, DA, ...)

General Law and rules enforced in FDUP.

Classification improvement

Is obtained by doing a written or an oral examination