영국판례를 통한 수상가옥의 법적 성질

Abstract

In this study, we purpose to clarify the legal status of floating pension currently spreading in regions of costal area of Korea. However, there clearly exist some issues in legal status of floating pensions in respect that, obviously due to its uncleared legal characteristic, various legally generated matters could arise. Nonetheless, relevant discussion detailed about the issue itself is quite insufficient. Legal application and proceeding for its licensing and permission matters will considerably change depending on our main aspect -whether floating pension could be considered as a ship or just a building structure, or neither of them. This leads the same problem to be directly connected with the matter of whether floating pension could be generally perceived as an object of public notification for ownership. Whilst relevant domestic case laws are virtually nil, we present an evaluation on legal status of floating pension mainly based on approaches to precedents of U.K courts dealing with house boat cases, of which main features (such as structure or functions) are fairly similar with that of domestic floating pension. Firstly, the study will go through a thematic examination whether floating pension could be categorized as a ship. To further identify the topic, we present possible legal issues of floating pension viewed in various legal perspectives according to relevant precedents. The findings came up from the research will be applied to evaluation of, whether floating pension could fall into the category as ship itself, or be categorized as chattel/real property. Possible implication for domestic legal system precedents of U.K courts stated in paper can have will also be suggested in conclusion.