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  • Formatas: Paperback / softback, 512 pages, aukštis x plotis x storis: 264x195x20 mm, weight: 1098 g, figures and photographs
  • Serija: Directions Series
  • Išleidimo metai: 28-Feb-2008
  • Leidėjas: Oxford University Press
  • ISBN-10: 019921641X
  • ISBN-13: 9780199216413
Kitos knygos pagal šią temą:
  • Formatas: Paperback / softback, 512 pages, aukštis x plotis x storis: 264x195x20 mm, weight: 1098 g, figures and photographs
  • Serija: Directions Series
  • Išleidimo metai: 28-Feb-2008
  • Leidėjas: Oxford University Press
  • ISBN-10: 019921641X
  • ISBN-13: 9780199216413
Kitos knygos pagal šią temą:
Land Law is written in an informal and lively manner with an emphasis on explaining the key topics covered on land law courses with clarity. This colour text is packed with features, diagrams, and photographs for a truly contemporary and student-centred approach.

Land Law is written in an informal and lively manner with an emphasis on explaining the key topics covered on land law courses with clarity. This color text is packed with features, diagrams, and photographs for a truly contemporary and student-centered approach. The range of features such as thinking points, example boxes, chapter summaries and end of chapter questions are designed to engage and reinforce knowledge. Photographs provide immediate and tangible illustration of concepts, rooting the discussion of topics in the context of the real world. The final chapter 'Completing the Puzzle' fosters an integrated understanding of land law by tying all topics together and demonstrating how concepts apply in practice.

The book is fully up to date and includes recent legislation and cases such as Stack v Dowden 2007

Online Resource Center:
The book is accompanied by an innovative online resource centre offering several resources to support teaching and learning. Lecturers can track student progress using an online bank of 150 multiple choice questions offering immediate answers and feedback that can be customized and loaded on to the university's VLE.
More advanced material and weblinks allow students to take their learning further and increase the depth and breadth of their knowledge.
Updates ensure students are up to date with the latest cases and developments in land law.
Diagrams and photographs are available to download and use in lectures.
Table of Cases
xxi
Table of Statutes
xxvii
Table of Statutory Instruments
xxxi
Guide to the book xxxii
Guide to the Online Resources Centre xxxiv
Part 1 Introduction
1(62)
What is Land?
3(24)
The definition of land
4(18)
Land of any tenure
5(1)
The extent of land
6(4)
Corporeal hereditaments
10(10)
Incorporeal hereditaments
20(2)
Objects lost and found in and on the land
22(5)
In the land
22(1)
On the land
23(1)
Treasure
24(1)
Summary
25(1)
Summary
26(1)
Questions
26(1)
Further reading
26(1)
The structure of land law
27(36)
The historical context
29(1)
The earliest developments: tenures and estates
30(3)
Tenures
30(2)
Estates
32(1)
Crown land
33(1)
Common law and equity
33(3)
The effect of equity on land law
34(2)
Legal and equitable estates and interests
36(5)
The doctrine of notice
37(3)
Summary
40(1)
The 1925 property legislation
41(18)
The two legal estates
43(2)
Registration
45(13)
Lifting equitable interests of the land: overreaching
58(1)
Conclusion
59(4)
Summary
60(1)
Questions
60(1)
Further reading
61(2)
Part 2 Legal estates
63(136)
The freehold estate
65(26)
The fee simple absolute in possession
66(6)
Fee simple
66(1)
Absolute
66(3)
In possession
69(2)
Summary
71(1)
The creation of a legal freehold
72(1)
Transfer of the legal freehold
72(16)
Negotiation and agreement
73(2)
Formation of the contract and exchange of contracts
75(2)
Transfer or conveyance of the legal estate
77(6)
Registration
83(5)
Electronic conveyancing (e-conveyancing)
88(3)
Summary
89(1)
Questions
89(1)
Further reading
90(1)
Registration of title
91(34)
The legislative framework
92(1)
The register
93(2)
Crown land
95(1)
First registration of title
95(13)
Cautions against first registration
96(1)
Classes of title
96(1)
The effect of registration with absolute title
96(2)
Interests protected by notice on the register
98(3)
Interests protected on the register by the entry of a restriction
101(1)
Interests that override first registration
102(6)
Registrable dispositions
108(6)
The protection of those who are registered as a result of a registrable disposition
109(3)
Interests that override registered dispositions
112(2)
Electronic conveyancing (e-conveyancing)
114(1)
Alteration of the register
114(11)
Introduction
115(1)
Who can alter the register?
115(1)
The grounds for altering the register
116(1)
Restrictions on altering the register: rectification against a proprietor in possession
116(3)
Indemnity
119(3)
Summary
122(1)
Questions
123(1)
Further reading
123(2)
Leases
125(37)
Frequently used terms
126(1)
Leases in practice some examples
126(2)
Statutory protection
128(2)
Definition of a lease
128(1)
Types of lease
129(1)
Creation of a lease
130(3)
Legal leases
131(1)
Equitable leases
132(1)
Essential characteristics of a lease
133(7)
Certain term
134(1)
Rent
135(1)
Exclusive possession
136(1)
Lodgers
137(1)
Multiple occupiers
137(2)
Business premises
139(1)
Exceptional cases
139(1)
Leasehold covenants
140(7)
The landlord's covenants
141(3)
The tenant's covenants
144(3)
Assignment and the running of covenants
147(4)
Laura and Tilly
148(1)
Laura assigns the reversion to Leo
148(1)
Tilly assigns her lease to Trevor
149(1)
assignment of the reversion
149(2)
assignment of the tenancy
151(1)
Putting it all together
151(7)
Ending a lease
158(1)
Commonhold
159(3)
Summary
160(1)
Questions
161(1)
Further reading
161(1)
Adverse possession
162(37)
Reasons for allowing adverse possession
163(2)
Arguments against allowing adverse possession
165(1)
Changes to the law
165(1)
The main statutory provisons
166(3)
Limitation Act 1980
166(2)
Land Registration Act 1925
168(1)
Land Registration Act 2002
169(1)
What does a squatter need to show to make a claim to the land?
169(11)
Discontinuance or dispossession
169(2)
Adverse possession
171(9)
Human rights
180(4)
Stopping the clock
184(2)
Successful action for possession within limitation period
184(1)
Acknowledgement of the paper owner's title by the squatter
184(1)
Payment of rent by the squatter
185(1)
The grant of a licence
185(1)
Letter threatening action
186(1)
Fraud, concealment, or mistake
186(1)
The effect of adverse possession
186(7)
Unregistered land
187(1)
Registered land
188(5)
How do I know which law applies?
193(6)
Summary
195(1)
Questions
195(1)
Further reading
196(3)
Part 3 Sole and joint owners of land
199(96)
The sole owner of land
201(20)
Who is an 'owner' of land and what can he or she do with it?
202(1)
The sole owner: three possibilities
203(5)
Sole legal and sole equitable owner
204(1)
Sole legal owner, holding the equitable title on trust for someone else
205(1)
Sole legal owner, holding for him or herself and (an)other equitable owner(s)
206(2)
Protection for equitable owners and purchasers
208(13)
Protection primarily for the purchaser: overreaching
208(2)
Protection for the equitable owner: restriction
210(1)
Protection of beneficiaries under a trust of land: overriding interests
211(7)
Overreaching tops overriding
218(1)
Summary
219(1)
Questions
219(1)
Further reading
220(1)
Joint owners of land (co-ownership)
221(23)
Types of co-ownership
222(1)
Joint tenancy
222(1)
Tenancy in common
223(1)
Legal and equitable ownership
223(1)
Joint tenancy
224(3)
Legal title
224(1)
Equitable title
225(2)
Tenancy in common
227(2)
Legal title
227(1)
Equitable title
228(1)
Which is which? Identifying a joint tenancy or a tenancy in common
229(2)
Express declaration
229(1)
General presumption
230(1)
Exceptions
230(1)
Severance
231(7)
Means of severance
232(6)
Impact on the land register
238(6)
Joint tenants
239(1)
Tenants in common
240(1)
Severance
241(1)
Summary
241(1)
Questions
242(1)
Further reading
242(2)
Trusts and the family home
244(33)
Acquiring an equitable interest
245(1)
Express trust
245(1)
Resulting and constructive trusts in context
246(3)
Family breakdowns
247(1)
Bank seeking possession
248(1)
Resulting trusts
249(7)
Introduction
249(1)
Contribution to purchase price
249(2)
Other kinds of contribution
251(2)
Rebutting the presumption
253(1)
Shares
254(2)
Constructive trusts
256(12)
Introduction
256(1)
Lloyds Bank plc v. Rosset [ 1991] AC 107
256(5)
Shares
261(7)
Other means of acquiring an equitable interest in the family home: proprietary estoppel
268(3)
Two-stage process
268(2)
Significance of the differences between constructive trusts and proprietary estoppel
270(1)
And finally, back to Mrs Burns
271(2)
Law Commission---proposals for reform
273(4)
Summary
274(1)
Questions
275(1)
Further reading
276(1)
Trusts of land
277(18)
The Trusts of Land and Appointment of Trustees Act 1996
278(1)
The need for TOLATA
278(1)
Trusts of land
279(6)
The trustees
280(2)
Rights of the beneficiaries
282(3)
Powers of the court
285(4)
Factors that the court must consider
286(3)
Bankruptcy
289(2)
The old law: pre-TOLATA
291(4)
Settled Land Act 1925
291(1)
Summary
292(1)
Questions
292(1)
Further reading
293(2)
Part 4 Rights over land
295(116)
Easements and profits
297(40)
Why are easements and profits important?
298(1)
What is an easement?
299(9)
There must be a dominant and a servient tenement
301(1)
An easement must accommodate the dominant tenement
301(1)
The dominant and servient owners must be different persons
302(1)
The right must be capable of forming the subject matter of a grant
302(1)
There must be certainty of description
303(1)
The right must be of a type generally recognized by the law as an easement
303(4)
A comparison of easements with other rights
307(1)
Common types of easement
308(4)
Rights of way
308(2)
Rights of light
310(1)
Rights of water
310(1)
Right of air
311(1)
Rights of storage
311(1)
Rights of support
311(1)
Right to fencing
311(1)
Use of facilities
312(1)
Acquisition of easements
312(19)
Grant and reservation of easements
312(1)
Express grant or reservation
313(2)
Implied grant or reservation
315(8)
Prescription
323(8)
Registration of easements
331(1)
Registered land
331(1)
Unregistered land
332(1)
Remedies for infringement of an easement
332(1)
Extinguishment of easements
332(2)
Access to Neighbouring Land Act 1992
334(1)
Profits a prendre
334(3)
Summary
335(1)
Questions
335(1)
Further reading
336(1)
Covenants in freehold land
337(44)
What is a covenant?
338(1)
Enforceability
339(3)
The original parties to the covenant
342(4)
Law of Property Act 1925, s. 56(1)
342(2)
Contracts (Rights of Third Parties) Act 1999
344(2)
The common law rules for passing of the benefit and burden of a covenant
346(5)
The passing of the benefit at common law
346(4)
The passing of the burden at common law
350(1)
The equitable rules for the passing of the benefit and the burden
351(17)
The passing of the benefit in equity
352(11)
The passing of the burden of restrictive covenants in equity
363(4)
When should the common law rules for the passing of the benefit be used and when should the equitable rules be used?
367(1)
Positive covenants
368(5)
Granting a leasehold estate
368(1)
Leasehold enfranchisement
368(1)
Commonhold
369(1)
Estate rentcharges
369(1)
Doctrine of mutual benefit and burden
369(1)
Chains of indemnity covenants
370(1)
Covenants entered into by successors in title
371(1)
The easement of fencing
372(1)
Breach of covenant
373(3)
Remedies for breach of covenant
373(3)
Modification and discharge of covenants
376(5)
Summary
379(1)
Questions
379(1)
Further reading
380(1)
Mortgages
381(30)
Terminology
382(1)
Creating a mortgage
383(1)
Legal mortgages
384(20)
Creating a legal mortgage
384(1)
Rights of the mortgagor
385(5)
Rights and remedies of the mortgagee
390(10)
Undue influence
400(4)
Equitable mortgages
404(1)
Remedies of the equitable mortgagee
405(1)
Priority of mortgages
405(6)
Registered land
405(1)
Unregistered land
406(1)
Tacking
407(1)
Summary
407(1)
Questions
408(1)
Further reading
409(2)
The bigger picture
411(42)
Completing the puzzle
413(19)
The register of title
414(2)
The property register: the description of the land
416(4)
Freehold land
416(2)
Corporeal hereditaments: the extent of the land
418(1)
Incorporeal hereditaments: the right of way
418(2)
The proprietorship register
420(2)
The charges register
422(5)
The lease
422(1)
The covenants
423(4)
The registered charge
427(1)
Interests that are not shown on the register
427(2)
Drawing it all together
429(3)
Summary
430(1)
Further reading
431(1)
Exam technique and the perils of question spotting
432(17)
Revision
433(2)
How to begin the revision process
433(1)
Look at what you already have
434(1)
Look at what you need
434(1)
Distilling your notes
435(1)
The exam
435(1)
Top exam tips
435(1)
Question spotting
435(1)
The nature of land
436(1)
The extent of land
436(1)
Whether objects form part of land
436(1)
Objects lost and found on land
437(1)
The structure of land law
437(1)
Common law and equity
437(1)
The policy of the 1925 property legislation
438(1)
Land registration
438(1)
The freehold estate
438(1)
The fee simple absolute
439(1)
Transfers of land
439(1)
Land registration
439(1)
Essays on registration
439(1)
Problem questions
440(1)
Leases
440(2)
Essential requirements of a lease
440(1)
Distinguishing between leases and licences
441(1)
Leasehold covenants
441(1)
Adverse possession
442(1)
Essay questions: critical analysis of the law
442(1)
Problem questions on adverse possession
442(1)
Co-ownership and TOLATA 1996
443(3)
The legal title
444(1)
The equitable title
444(2)
The statutory framework
446(1)
Easements and profits
446(2)
Essay questions
446(1)
Problem questions
447(1)
Covenants in freehold land
448(1)
Mortgages
449(4)
Read the question: who are you advising?
449(1)
What kind of mortgage is it?
450(1)
Look at the mortgage agreement itself and its implications for the mortgagor
450(1)
Has the mortgagor fallen behind with his or her repayments?
450(3)
Summary
451(1)
Further reading
451(2)
Glossary 453(10)
Index 463