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Complete Land Law: Text Cases and Materials, 5th Edition

Complete Land Law: Text Cases and Materials, 5th Edition

Author: Roger Sexton
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 9780198793250
Published In: August 2017
Format: Paperback , 832 pages
Jurisdiction: U.K. ? Disclaimer:
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Combining clear author commentary with essential extracts from legislation and cases, Complete Land Law offers a comprehensive yet student-focused guide to the subject. A wide range of extracts are included, providing convenient and reliable access to all the materials you will need throughout your course.

Chapter summaries and review questions help test your knowledge as you move through the topics, while thinking points and essay questions develop your critical awareness of key land law issues and provide essential preparation for exams. Both experienced lecturers, the authors address areas of difficulty with clarity. Examples and diagrams are included throughout the text to illustrate difficult but fundamental concepts and case law and provide an overview of complex processes. These scenarios demonstrate how abstract land law concepts apply in practice, helping to complete your understanding and develop your own problem-solving skills ready for exams.

Complete Land Law is also accompanied by an Online Resource Centre which includes: * outline answers to the questions in the book, allowing you to check your understanding ahead of exams and assessment * an interactive glossary to demystify land law jargon and support revision * further reading and weblinks to support independent research and essay preparation * updates from the authors to keep you up-to-date with new cases and developments in land law
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