Land Law

Land Law: text, cases, and materials has been designed to provide students with everything they need to approach their land law course with confidence. Ready to be used as a stand-alone resource on all land law courses the authors combine stimulating commentary and well-chosen materials to present the subject in an interesting and dynamic way. Covering all core aspects of land law including legal estates, legal interests, equitable interests, interests in the home, leases, easements, covenants and security interests in land, the book provides students with the detailed knowledge and analytical tools required to understand and engage fully with the current topical debates surrounding the subject. The book is accompanied by an Online Resource Centre offering detailed updates to the law following publication, useful weblinks, multiple choice questions with answers and feedback, and guidance on answering end-of-chapter questions. An excellent text book for students. The material is well organised, clearly setting out the essential principles of land law, whilst inviting students to engage with critical debate. Professor Susan Bright, Faculty of Law, University of Oxford Comprehensive, stimulating and lucid. This is a first class land law resource. Amy Goymour, Faculty of Law, University of Cambridge A model free standing text book because it contains all the necessary elements that both teacher and student need to respectively disseminate and understand a challenging subject. Michael John-Hopkins, School of Law, Aberystwyth University

A. INTRODUCTION ; 1. What's special about land? ; 2. What is land? ; 3. Human rights and land ; B. THE CONTENT QUESTION ; 4. Legal estates and legal interests ; 5. Equitable interests ; 6. Direct rights ; C1. THE ACQUISITION QUESTION ; 7. Formal methods of acquisition: contracts, deeds and registration ; 8. Informal methods of acquisition: adverse possession ; C2. THE ACQUISITION OF AN EQUITABLE INTEREST IN LAND ; 9. The doctrine of anticipation: Walsh v Lonsdale ; 10. Proprietary estoppel ; 11. Trusts: The acquisition question ; D. PRIORITY AND THE DEFENCES QUESTION ; 12. The priority triangle ; 13. Unregistered land and priorities ; 14. Registered land and priorities ; 15. Evaluating the Land Registration Act 2002 ; E. THE SHARED HOME ; 16. Interests in the home: the acquisition question ; 17. Regulating co-ownership: the content question ; 18. Co-ownership and third parties: applications for sale ; 19. Co-ownership and priorities: the defences question ; 20. Successive ownership ; F. LICENCES AND LEASES ; 21. Licences ; 22. Leases ; 23. Regulating leases and protecting occupiers ; 24. Leasehold covenants ; G: NEIGHBOURS AND NEIGHBOURHOODS ; 25. Easements ; 26. Freehold covenants ; 27. Flat ownership: long leases and commonhold ; H: SECURITY RIGHTS ; 28. Security interests in land ; 29. Protection of the borrower ; 30. Lender's rights and remedies