This handbook is the first of two containing broad comparative overviews of major aspects of European private law. It is intended to compare both substantive law and private law institutions and cultures and to demonstrate the value of legal comparativism for the study of the evolution of European supranational rules as well as national ones. The specific topics covered in this volume are fundamental rights and European private law, Western property law, the contractual transfer of ownership of movable property, Western law of obligations, Western law of contract, Eastern law of contract, European consumer law, Western tort law, Eastern tort law, the law of restitution in Western Europe, proprietary security rights in Western Europe, security rights in Central and Eastern Europe, family law, and the law of successions. Annotation ©2010 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)