Full Description
The only book on land law to include a running case study to illustrate how the law works in practice.
Trusted by students for over 30 years, Textbook on Land Law gives a practical and innovative edge to modern land law. Perfectly pitched for students studying land law for the first time, the running case study will galvanize interest in the topics by allowing students to visualize and engage with the topics.
- Features practical examples throughout to provide students with a frame of reference to put this often abstract subject into a clear context
- Combines academic detail and accuracy with a direct and engaging writing style to give lucidity to complex areas
- Examines core areas covered on land and property law courses, and has been consistently relied upon and refined over seventeen editions
- Includes extracts and sample legal documents to demonstrate how land law works in the real world and end-of chapter further reading references to direct additional research
New to this edition:
- New self-test questions with immediate feedback at the end of every chapter to review and improve knowledge retention
- Discussion of the effect of 'adverse possession' of registered land by a fraudulently registered proprietor in Nasrullah v Rashid (2018).
- Examination of the role of intention in defining the lease/licence distinction in Global 100 Ltd v Laleva (2021).
- Analysis of Ali v Khatib (2022) on the circumstances in which 'occupation rent' is payable by a co-owner in occupation to a co-owner who is not in occupation
- Consideration of Hudson v Hathaway (2022) on the effect of changing intentions on a beneficial joint tenancy of the family home and the need for detrimental reliance where a common intention constructive trust is being recognised
- Commentary on the important new Supreme Court decision on remedies in proprietary estoppel cases, Guest v Guest (2022).
Digital formats and resources
The 19th edition is available for students and institutions to purchase in a variety of formats, and is supported by online resources.
- The e-book offers a mobile experience and convenient access along with functionality tools, navigation features and links that offer extra learning support: www.oxfordtextbooks.co.uk/ebooks
- This textbook is also accompanied by online resources including self-test questions with instant feedback and guidance on approaching land law problems.
Contents
Part I: Introduction
1: Estates in Land
2: Interests in Land
Part II: The Freehold Estate
3: Buying a house
4: The contract
5: Unregistered land
6: Registered land
7: Acquisition of an estate by adverse possession
Part III: Legal estates
8: The freehold estate
9: The leasehold estate
10: Obligations of landlord and tenant
11: Enforcement of leasehold covenants
12: Remedies of breach of leasehold covenants
Part IV: Trusts
13: Express and implied trusts
14: Trusts of land
15: Settled Land Act settlements
16: The rule against perpetuities
17: Co-ownership
18: Trusts of the family home
19: Proprietary estoppel
Part V: Licences and Rights to the Family Home
20: Licences and their enforcement
21: Special rights in relation to the family home
Part VI: Rights in Land
22: Mortgages and charges
23: Priorities in relation to mortgages and charges
24: Easements and profits à prendre
25: Freehold covenants
Part VII: In Conclusion
26: What is land?
