Full Description
Substantial case detail, choice extracts, and sophisticated analysis.
Land Law: Text, Cases, and Materials combines insightful author commentary with carefully selected extracts to fully support students.
Key features:
· Combines insightful author commentary with carefully selected extracts to provide a thought-provoking and contextualized account of the subject
· Helps students to understand how rules work in isolation as well as how they interlink due to the authors' unique approach to land law, enabling students to think critically and with a high level of analysis
· Provides detailed discussion of key land law cases, drawing together extracts from leading judgments, responses to controversial decisions, and the authors' own opinion to create a well-rounded account
· Takes a thorough, detailed, and critical approach, providing a framework to support students throughout their course
· Begins each chapter with a discussion of 'central issues,' providing an at-a-glance account of the key debates and principles shaping each area of law
· Includes self-test questions with guidance on how to approach them alongside further research notes in each chapter to support independent study
New to this edition:
· A full, comprehensive update to cases and other new developments
· New cases considered in this edition include decisions of the Supreme Court, such as R (on the application of SC) v SS for Work and Pensions, Wolverhampton CC v London Gypsies and Travellers (both Chapter 4), Guest v Guest (Chapter 10), and Byers v Saudi National Bank (Chapter 17); and of the Court of Appeal, such as Pennistone Holdings v Rock Ferry Waterfront Trust (Chapter 5), Hudson v Hathway (Chapters 8 and 10), White v Amirtharaja (Chapter 9), and Faiz v Burnley CC (Chapter 21)
· The chapter on proprietary estoppel has been restructured in the light of the Supreme Court's decision in Guest v Guest
· New academic writing, regulatory changes, and proposed new legislation (for example in relation to flat ownership) are all featured
· Diagrams have been reviewed to ensure clarity and consistency
The sixth edition is available for students and institutions to purchase in a variety of formats: the e-book and Law Trove offer a mobile experience and convenient access, along with self-test questions, guidance for answering end-of-chapter questions, further research notes, functionality tools, navigation features and links that offer extra learning support. For more information about e-books, please visit www.oxfordtextbooks.co.uk/ebooks.
Contents
A. Introduction
1: What's special about land?
2: What is land?
3: Registration
B. The content question
4: Human rights and land
5: Legal estates and legal interests
6: Equitable interests
7: Personal rights: licences
C. The acquisition question
8: Formal methods of acquisition: contracts and deeds
9: Adverse possession
10: Proprietary estoppel
11: Trusts
D. The shared home
12: Interests in the home: the acquisition question
13: Regulating co-ownership: the content question
14: Co-ownership and third parties: applications for sale
E. Priority: the defences question and land registration
15: The priority triangle
16: Priorities in registered land
17: Co-ownership and priorities: the defences question
18: Reform of the Land Registration Act 2002
F. Leases
19: Leases
20: Regulating leases and protecting occupiers
21: Leasehold covenants
G. Neighbours and neighbourhoods
22: Easements
23: Freehold covenants
24: Flat ownership: long leases and commonhold
H. Security rights
25: Security interests in land
26: Lender's rights and remedies
27: Protection of the borrower
