Where local law absolutely forbids the assignment of an immovable, this should be recognised in Ireland.\u00a0 Equities cannot be enforced in this case in respect of the property or its proceeds. The burdens to be borne by foreign immovable property are in the absence of a contract or personal equity to be determined by the local rule.<\/p>\n
An assignment of an immovable, which gives good title under the law of where the immovable is situated, is recognised in Ireland irrespective of the domicile and the position of the parties.\u00a0 Equity in the assignment of an immovable in Ireland may be invalid unless it complies with Irish law.<\/p>\n
Where the local law where the goods are situated prescribes special formalities for validity, an assignment made without those formalities is not recognised.\u00a0 It seems likely that for an assignment to be valid in Ireland, the assignor must have the capacity to make the assignment and the assignee’s capacity to receive it according to the law of their respective domiciles.<\/p>\n
This seems to be the case wherever the assignment may be made. Where under the local law, a bona fide purchaser for the value of immovable obtains good title, this is recognised by Irish law.<\/p>\n\n
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Immovables Conflict of laws distinguish between movable and immovable property.\u00a0 Generally, immovable property is governed by the law of the place where it is situated.\u00a0 This determines such matters as the nature of the property rights and their transfer and inheritance. A distinction is made between moveable and immovable property. Moveable property generally includes any […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[153,154],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10138"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10138"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10138\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32476,"href":"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10138\/revisions\/32476"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10138"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10138"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10138"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}