Conveyancing / Tenancy / Land

Textbook on Land Law 20th ed

By Aruna Nair
Coming Soon Oxford University Press Available July 2026

Specifications

ISBN-13
9780197902691
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Publication
July 2026
Format
Paperback
Jurisdiction
U.K. ? Countri(es) for reference only

Details

Brings land law to life with 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 those 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 them.

  • 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:

  • Fully revised Chapter 13 covers the UK Government's proposal to compel the use of commonhold going forward
  • New Chapter 16 combines the effect of a trust of land and trusts controlling future enjoyment of land

Table of Contents

Part I: Introduction
1:Estates in Land
2:Interests in Land

Part II: The Freehold Estate
3:Buying a house
4:The contract
5:Unregistered land
6:Registered land
7:Acquisition of an estate by adverse possession

Part III: Legal estates
8:The freehold estate
9:The leasehold estate
10:Obligations of landlord and tenant
11:Enforcement of leasehold covenants
12:Remedies of breach of leasehold covenants
13:Commonhold

Part IV: Trusts
14:Express and implied trusts
15:Trusts of land
16:Settlements of land
17:Co-ownership
18:Trusts of the family home
19:Proprietary estoppel

Part V: Licences and Rights to the Family Home
20:Licences and their enforcement
21:Special rights in relation to the family home

Part VI: Rights in Land
22:Mortgages and charges
23:Priorities in relation to mortgages and charges
24:Easements and profits à prendre
25:Freehold covenants

Part VII: In Conclusion
26:What is land?
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