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Edinburgh Castle, with the New Town beyond, is at the heart of the Edinburgh World Heritage Site World Heritage Sites in Scotland are locations that have been included in the UNESCO World Heritage Programme list of sites of outstanding cultural or natural importance to the common heritage of humankind. Historic Environment Scotland is responsible for 'cultural' sites as part of their wider ...
As the home of the dukes who declared independence in the 12th century, Guimarães is an important town in the history of Portugal. It served as the first capital of the country. The development of the medieval town took place around the castle and the monastic complex. Between the late 15th and 17th centuries, noble houses and civic buildings ...
Until 1868, all immovable property, also called in Scottish law "heritable property" (buildings, lands, etc.) was inherited exclusively by the eldest son and couldn't be included in a will. [127] After 1868, it could be included in a will or testament, but if a person died intestate , it was still inherited exclusively by the eldest son. [ 128 ]
Scots property law governs the rules relating to property found in the legal jurisdiction of Scotland.. In Scots law, the term 'property' does not solely describe land. Instead the term 'a person's property' is used when describing objects or 'things' (in Latin res) that an individual holds a right of owners
The terms heritable and movable of Scots law to a great extent correspond with the real and personal of English law. The main points of difference are these. (1) Leases are heritable as to the succession to the lessee, unless the destination expressly exclude heirs, but are movable as to the fisk.
A 'cadastre' or cadastral map is a topographic map of Scotland with the title boundaries of all properties registered in the Land Register. It can be seen as an "electronic megaplan for the whole of Scotland". [71] The Cadastral Map operates on the Ordnance Survey map of Scotland, which is termed the base map. [72]
The Classification of Built Heritage in Portugal corresponds to a group or independent Portuguese archeological civic, military and religious cultural properties deemed to be of sufficient historical value by the Direção-Geral do Património Cultural for protection and conservation. The precise rules for the classification and protection of ...
It is associated with the history of the invention and spread of typography. Its name refers to the greatest printer-publisher of the second half of the 16th century: Christophe Plantin (c. 1520–89). The museum contains a collection made up of the work of the most prolific printing and publishing house in Europe in the late 16th century.