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This is a new edition of our well-established Property text in the renowned Clarendon Law Series. It is completely revised and updated to incorporate all recent legislative changes and provides a clear and critical account of the basic principles of the law of property. It provides both a succinct and thoughtful overview of the subject for those coming to it for the first time (e.g. as pre-course reading) and also pulls together themes and raises thought-provokinginsights and synergies for those reading it after they have completed both property heads.
List of contents
- Part I: Introduction
- Part 2: Property in General
- 3: The Acquisitions of Property Interests
- 4: The Protection of Property Interests
- Part 3: Common-Law Techniques
- 6: Ownership and its Fragmentation
- 7: Land Legislation for England and Wales 1925-2001
- Part 4: Standard Patterns
- 9: Security
- 10: Real Property: Servitudes
- 11: Succession
- Part 5: Property as Wealth
- 13: The Control of Endowment
- 14: Conclusion
About the author
The late F H Lawson was a former Professor of Comparative Law at the University of Oxford.
Bernard Rudden is a Fellow of Brasenose College at the University of Oxford and is a former Professor of Comparative Law (now retired).
Summary
This edition provides an account of the basic principles of the law of property sketching out the main patterns of the subject without giving undue prominence to the exceptions and historical inconsistencies. It cites few statutes and no cases, concentrating on the underlying themes of the subject.
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A good text dealing with basic Principles of property.
A Cronin
