Civil Code of Qatar

Translator: Philip Gordon, BA (Cantab);
BA, Arabic Language & Literature,
University of Cairo
Publication: August 2010
Pages: 310
Binding: Hard covers
ISBN: 978-1-907229-07-7
Price: £350/$550

Description
The Civil Code of Qatar, Law No 22 of 2004 AD/1425 AH, is the single most important legal code in the Emirate of Qatar. No publicly available, reliable translation into English currently exists. In 2010 Lexgulf, is publishing the Civil Code in an original translation of first class quality.

CONTENTS

  • General provisions
  • Application of the law regarding time & place – persons – chattels & property – the exercise of a right
  • Personal rights & obligations - the sources of obligation – contracts – components of a contract - consent – object & basis of the contract – nullity – effects of a contract – dissolution of a contract – liability for unlawful acts – enrichment without cause – liability for unlawful acts
  • The effects of obligations – the exercise of the obligations – general guarantee for creditors
  • Features which modify the effects of an obligation – the condition & term – multiplicity of objects for the obligation – multiplicity of parties to the contract
  • Transfer of the obligation – assignment of the right – assignment of the debt.
  • Termination of the obligation – performance – termination of the obligation through performance - termination of the liability without performance
  • Nominate contracts – contracts applying to ownership – sale – barter – gifts – companies – loans – conciliation
  • Contracts that apply to the benefit from articles – leasing – lending
  • Contracts that apply to work – contracting – agency (power of attorney) – deposit – receivership
  • Aleatory contracts – gambling & betting – annuities – insurance contracts
  • Guarantee – principles of guarantee – effects of a guarantee
  • Real rights – rights of ownership – grounds of acquisition of ownership – rights derived from ownership – right of usufruct, right of use, right of residence – leasehold rights – right of easement
  • Subordinate real rights – official mortgage – right of charge – possessory pledge/mortgage – priority rights

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Commercial & Civil Procedure Code of Qatar

Law No 13 of 1410 AH/1990 AD
Translator: Philip Gordon, BA (Cantab); BA,
Arabic Language & Literature,
University of Cairo
Publication: September 2010
Pages: 110
Binding: Soft covers
ISBN: 978-1-907229-08-4
Price: £250/$3700

This book presents a first class translation from Arabic into English of the Commercial & Civil Procedure Code of Qatar, undertaken by a highly qualified translator well experienced in the translation into English of Arabic legal documents.

Civil Code of the United Arab Emirates

Federal Law No 5 of 1985:
the Civil Transactions Law
Translators: J. Whelan, MA, & M.J. Hall, Ph.D.
Publication: August 2010
Pages: 270
Binding: Soft covers
ISBN: 978-1-907229-10-7
Price: £295/$450

Description
This translation into English of The Civil Code of the United Arab Emirates was undertaken by the late Dr M.J. Hall, and James Whelan, an English lawyer with Clifford Chance in Sharjah, and first published by Graham & Trotman/ Kluwer in 1987. Lexgulf Publishers is the successor publisher to Graham & Trotman in respect of this book, and is now publishing a reprinted edition of the original 1987 work.

CONTENTS

INTRODUCTION

Book 1
Personal obligations & rights – The effects of a right

Book 2 – Contracts
Contracts conferring ownership – usufructuary contracts – contracts of work – contracts of hazard – contracts of personal guarantee

Book 3 – Original rights in rem
Rights of ownership – rights deriving from ownership

Book 4 – Securities over property Pledge/mortgage by way of security – possessory pledges/mortgages – priority rights (liens)

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Commercial Code of the United Arab Emirates

Federal Law No 18 of 1993, the Law of Commercial Transactions
Translators : Dawoud El-Alami, Ph.D. & Katherine El-Alami, B.A.
Publication: August 2010
Pages: 210
Binding: Soft covers
ISBN: 978-1-907229-11-4
Price: £210/$315

CONTENTS

Part 1 - Commerce in General Terms
Commercial activity, the trader, & commercial books – Commercial house, commercial names, unlawful competition, trademarks, and commercial data

Part 2 - Commercial Obligations & Contracts
Commercial obligations – commercial sale – commercial pledges – lodgement in public depositaries – the stock exchange – commercial agency - brokerage – carriage

Part 3 - Banking Operations
Bank deposits & accounts – current accounts – bank lending – operations in respect of commercial documents – operations in respect of financial documents – rental of safe deposit boxes

Part 4 - Commercial Documents
Definition of commercial documents & their types – bills of exchange – promissory notes – cheques

Part 5 - Bankruptcy & Composition
Bankruptcy – composition to prevent bankruptcy – crimes in bankruptcy & protective composition – fines & costs

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Law of Civil Procedure of the United Arab Emirates

Federal Law No 11 of 1992, as amended by Law No 30 of 2005
Translators: Dawoud El-Alami, Ph.D., and Katherine El-Alami, B.A.
Publication: August 2010
Pages: 130
Binding: Soft covers
ISBN: 978-1-907229-09-1
Price: £220/$330

CONTENTS

Part 1: Summons before the courts –
Jurisdiction of the courts – Raising & registration of claims & assessments of value – attendance & absence of adversaries – public prosecution – procedure & organisation of the session – petitions, introduction of third parties – suspension of the dispute – unfitness of judges, rejection 7 withdrawal – rulings orders on the basis of application – orders for payments – methods of contesting rulings

Part 2: Miscellaneous procedures 7 lawsuits –
offers 7 deposits – legal action against judges & public prosecutor – arbitration

Part 3: Implementation – general provisions
– seizure – distribution of proceeds – implementation in kind

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Civil Code of Kuwait

Decree Law No 67 of 1980
Translator: Nicolas Karam, Formerly Official Translator to the Courts of Lebanon
Publication: August 2010
Pages: 248
Binding: Soft covers
ISBN: 978-1-907229-12-1 P
rice: £295/$450

Description
Business Laws of Kuwait, Volumes 1-3, by Graham & Trotman/Kluwer. Since 2008 this looseleaf is now published by Lexgulf Publishers Ltd, which is now also publishing the Civil Code of Kuwait as a separate book. Good translations into English of the Kuwaiti Civil Code are rare. The Civil Code provides the general rules of law within the Kuwaiti legal system, and replaced the Majallah, the Ottoman version of a Civil Code.

CONTENTS

GENERAL PROVISIONS

  • Personal Rights or Obligations
    Obligations in general – Origins of Obligations
  • Contracts - conclusion of a contract – the elements of a contract – form of the contract – certain forms specific to concluding contracts – unimpaired consent – defects of consent – the object – nullity – the effects of a contract – the binding force of a contract – dissolution of a contract
  • Injurious acts – responsibility for unlawful acts – liability on injury to life – beneficial acts or enrichment without lawful cause
  • The effects of obligation – compulsory enforcement – general warranty to creditors and the means to safeguard it
  • Characteristics modifying the effects of obligation – conditions & time limits
  • Transmission of Obligations – assignment of a right – transfer of debt
  • Lapse of obligations – payment /discharge – lapse of the obligation by that which is equivalent to discharge – the extinction of obligations without payment
  • Nominate contracts – contracts as regards ownership – sale
  • The obligations of the purchaser – barter – grants – composition
  • Contracts relating to usufruct of things – leases
  • Contracts concerning work & labor – craftsman's work contract – obligations of the employer

Agency

Deposit

Stakeholding

Suretyship & insurance

Rights in rem – primary rights in rem – the rights to ownership

Provisions relating to the right to ownership – causes for acquisition of ownership

Rights derived from the right of ownership

Secondary rights in rem, securities in rem
Authentic mortages – constitution of authentic mortgages – the effects of an authentic mortgage

Possessory mortgage
Constitution of possessory mortgage – effects of the possessory mortgage – extinction of a possessory mortgage – types of possessory mortgage

Privileged rights
General provisions – types of privileged rights

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