Land Law

Complete Land Law: Text, Cases, & Materials offers a student-centred approach to the land law syllabus. Clear and concise explanation of general legal principles is combined with fully integrated extracts from the leading cases and a wide range of academic materials. The extracts have been carefully selected to ensure that they are detailed enough to illustrate the point of law under consideration, but succinct enough not to disrupt the flow of the text or to intimidate the student new to the study of land law. The book has been carefully structured with the needs of the student firmly in mind. Each chapter begins by highlighting the learning objectives and uses numerous features including 'think' boxes, definition boxes and figures and diagrams to ensure that the student is guided through the principles of the law in a clear and uncomplicated way. Complete Land Law is written in a practical and accessible style designed to engage the reader from the outset and the attractive and contemporary two-colour page design will make it easy for students to use the text as well as serving to highlight the features that will aid their learning experience. This innovative text will engage the reader in an active approach to learning and to stimulate reflection about the role of land law in practice. Online Resource Centre The accompanying Online Resource Centre offers tools to reinforce students' learning: - Regular updates - Web links - Guidelines to answering the end of chapter assessment questions - Flashcard glossary of key terms Lecturers will find the following resources useful: - Powerpoint slides - Test bank

ISBN 0199596816   Pages 848 ISBN13 9780199596812 (What's this?)   Weight (grammes) 1552 Publisher Oxford University Press   Published in Oxford Imprint Oxford University Press   Previous ISBN 9780199558544 Format Paperback   Height (mm) 246 Publication date 07 Jul 2011   Width (mm) 190 DEWEY 346.42043   Spine width (mm) 45 DEWEY edition DC22   Academic level Tertiary education

PART 1 INTRODUCTION: ESTATES AND INTERESTS IN LAND; 1. Introduction to the Types of Property Rights in Land; 2. Tenures and Estates; 3. Creation of Legal and Equitable Rights in Land; PART 2 UNREGISTERED LAND; 4. Protection of Legal and Equitable Property Rights before 1925; 5. The Impact of the 1925 Legislation; 6. Status of Equitable Interests after 1925; PART 3 REGISTERED LAND; 7. Registration of Title - The Basic Principles; 8. Minor Interests and Overriding Interests; PART 4 ACQUISITION OF INTERESTS IN LAND (I); 9. Trusts of Land; 10. Co-ownership of Land - The Basic Principles; 11. Co-ownership - The Resolution of Disputes; PART 5 ACQUISITION OF INTERESTS IN LAND (II); 12. Licences and Proprietary Estoppel; PART 6 LEASES; 13. Leases - The Basic Requirements; 14. Obligations in Leases; 15. The Running of Covenants in a Lease; 16. Termination of Leases; PART 7 INFORMAL ACQUISITION OF LEGAL ESTATES; 17. Adverse Possession and the Limitation Acts; PART 8 PROTECTION FOR THE PURCHASER OF REGISTERED LAND; 18. Rectification of the Register of Title; PART 9 EASEMENTS; 19. The Essential Characteristics of Easements; 20. Creation of Express and Implied Grant of Easements; 21. Prescription for Easements (and Profits); PART 10 FREEHOLD COVENANTS: RESTRICTIVE AND POSITIVE COVENANTS; 22. Freehold Covenants; 23. Escaping from Restrictive Covenants; PART 11 MORTGAGES; 24. The Creation of Mortgages; 25. The Remedies of Mortgagees; 26. The Operation of Mortgages; 27. Priority of Mortgages

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