Textbook on Land Law 19th ed

Author: Judith-Anne MacKenzie; Mary Phillips
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 9780192858832

Previous Edition ISBN: 9780198839828
Published In: September 2023
Format: Paperback , 672 pages
Jurisdiction: U.K. ? Disclaimer:
Countri(es) stated herein are used as reference only

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The only book on land law to include a running case study to illustrate how the law works in practice.

Trusted by students for over 30 years, Textbook on Land Law gives a practical and innovative edge to modern land law. Perfectly pitched for students studying land law for the first time, the running case study will galvanize interest in the topics by allowing students to visualize and engage with the topics.

Features practical examples throughout to provide students with a frame of reference to put this often abstract subject into a clear context
Combines academic detail and accuracy with a direct and engaging writing style to give lucidity to complex areas
Examines core areas covered on land and property law courses, and has been consistently relied upon and refined over seventeen editions
Includes extracts and sample legal documents to demonstrate how land law works in the real world and end-of chapter further reading references to direct additional research

New to this edition:

New self-test questions with immediate feedback at the end of every chapter to review and improve knowledge retention
Discussion of the effect of 'adverse possession' of registered land by a fraudulently registered proprietor in Nasrullah v Rashid (2018).
Examination of the role of intention in defining the lease/licence distinction in Global 100 Ltd v Laleva (2021).
Analysis of Ali v Khatib (2022) on the circumstances in which 'occupation rent' is payable by a co-owner in occupation to a co-owner who is not in occupation
Consideration of Hudson v Hathaway (2022) on the effect of changing intentions on a beneficial joint tenancy of the family home and the need for detrimental reliance where a common intention constructive trust is being recognised
Commentary on the important new Supreme Court decision on remedies in proprietary estoppel cases, Guest v Guest (2022)

Part I: Introduction
1: Estates in land
2: Interests in land
3: Land law and human rights
Part II: Acquisition of Estates in Land
4: Buying a house
5: The contract
6: Unregistered land
7: Registered land
8: Acquisition of an estate by adverse possession
Part III: Legal Estates
9: The freehold estate
10: The leasehold estate
11: Obligations of landlord and tenant
12: Enforcement of leasehold covenants
13: Remedies for breach of leasehold covenants
14: Commonhold
Part IV: Trusts and Proprietary Estoppel
15: Trusts - an introduction
16: Co-ownership
17: Trusts of land
18: Settled land act settlements
19: Perpetuities and accumulations
20: Resulting and constructive trusts
21: Proprietary estoppel
Part V: Licenses
22: Nature of a licence
23: Enforcement of a licence
Part VI: Third Party Rights
24: Mortgages and charges
25: Easements and profits a prendre
26: Covenants relating to freehold land
Part VII: In Conclusion
27: The family home
28: What is land?

Judith-Anne MacKenzie is a Barrister, formerly a member of the Government Legal Service and a former Senior Civil Servant at the Department for Transport.

Mary Phillips is a Barrister and former Dean of the Inns of Court School of Law.