Full Description
The eighteenth edition of this classic work on land law has been fully updated and revised to ensure that it presents the modern law of real property - the land law of the twenty-first century - whilst setting the modern law in the context of its historical foundations.
Contents
PART I INTRODUCTION ; 1. An introduction to land law ; PART II THE MODERN LAW IN HISTORICAL CONTEXT ; 2. The common law system ; 3. Modification of the common law by equity ; 4. Settlements before 1926 ; 5. The simplification of the law: 1925, 1996 and 2002 ; PART III ESTATES AND INTERESTS IN LAND ; 6. The estate in fee simple absolute in possession ; 7. Commonhold ; 8. General characteristics and creation of leases ; 9. Covenants in leases ; 10. Termination of leases and recovery of possession by the landlord ; 11. Statutory codes for special leases ; 12. The strict settlement and the trust for sale before 1997 ; 13. The trust of land ; 14. Concurrent interests ; 15. Future interests: the rules against perpetuities and accumulations of income ; 16. Entailed interests and life interests ; 17. Determinable interests and interests upon condition subsequent ; 18. Easements and profits ; 19. Covenants ; 20. Rentcharges ; 21. Mortgages ; 22. Equities and proprietary estoppel ; 23. Licences ; PART IV THE CREATION, TRANSFER AND EXTINCTION OF ESTATES AND INTERESTS IN LAND ; 24. The contract ; 25. Formalities required for the creation and transfer of estates and interests in land ; 26. Capacity to acquire, hold and transfer estates and interests in land ; 27. Unregistered conveyancing ; 28. Registered conveyancing ; 29. Extinction of estates and interests in land
