Textbook on Land Law, 19th Edition

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)