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Land Law: Text, Cases, and Materials, 6th Edition

Land Law: Text, Cases, and Materials, 6th Edition

Author: Ben McFarlane; Nicholas Hopkins; Sarah Nield
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 9780198893226

Previous Edition ISBN: 9780198868521
Published In: August 2024
Format: Paperback , 1248 pages
Jurisdiction: U.K. ? Disclaimer:
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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

A. INTRODUCTION
1: What's Special about Land?
2: What is Land?
3: Human Rights and Land
B. THE CONTENT OF RIGHTS
4: Legal Estates and Legal Interests
5: Equitable Interests
6: Direct Rights
C THE ACQUISITION QUESTION
C1: The acquisition of a legal estate or interest in land
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 & 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 Priorities: The Defences Question
19: Co-Ownership and Third Parties: Applications for Sale
20: Successive Ownership
F. 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: Borrower Protection
30: Lender's Rights and Remedies

Ben McFarlane, Reader, University of Oxford, Nicholas Hopkins, Professor of Law, University of Southampton, andSarah Nield, Reader, University of Southampton

Ben McFarlane is a Reader in Property Law & Trusts at Oxford University and a Fellow of Trinity College, Oxford. His popular lectures on basic principles of land law led, in part, to his being one of the first two Oxford law tutors to win a Teaching Excellence award from the University. He has published a number of articles on land law in leading journals and is the author of The Structure of Property Law (Hart, 2008). In 2010, he was awarded the Philip Leverhulme Prize.

Nicholas Hopkins is a Professor of Law at Southampton University. He has taught land law since 1993. His research interests lie in property law, particularly informal rights in land and the interrelation between land law and other branches of law, including equity, unjust enrichment, family, housing policy and social security. He has published widely in these areas and is the author of The Informal Acquisition of Rights in Land (Sweet & Maxwell 2000).

Sarah Nield is a Reader in Law at Southampton University. She has been teaching in law for the past 17 years, having previously held posts at Hong Kong University and the University of Bristol, teaching land, equity and trusts and company law. She is also a qualified solicitor. She has authored two books on land law in Hong Kong, one of which was the first textbook on Hong Kong land law.

"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