Land Law - Text, Cases, and Materials

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

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List of contents

• A. Introduction


• 1: What's special about land?


• 2: What is land?


• 3: Registration


• B. The content question


• 4: Human rights and land


• 5: Legal estates and legal interests


• 6: Equitable interests


• 7: Personal rights: licences


• C. The acquisition question


• 8: Formal methods of acquisition: contracts and deeds


• 9: Adverse possession


• 10: Proprietary estoppel


• 11: Trusts


• D. The shared home


• 12: Interests in the home: the acquisition question


• 13: Regulating co-ownership: the content question


• 14: Co-ownership and third parties: applications for sale


• E. Priority: the defences question and land registration


• 15: The priority triangle


• 16: Priorities in registered land


• 17: Co-ownership and priorities: the defences question


• 18: Reform of the Land Registration Act 2002


• F. Leases


• 19: Leases


• 20: Regulating leases and protecting occupiers


• 21: Leasehold covenants


• G. Neighbours and neighbourhoods


• 22: Easements


• 23: Freehold covenants


• 24: Flat ownership: long leases and commonhold


• H. Security rights


• 25: Security interests in land


• 26: Lender's rights and remedies


• 27: Protection of the borrower

About the author

Ben McFarlane is Professor of English Law at the University of Oxford and a Fellow of St John's College. He has published a widely on land law and is the author of The Law of Proprietary Estoppel (OUP 2nd edn, 2020) and The Structure of Property Law (Hart, 2008). He is also an author of Hayton, McFarlane and Mitchell on Equity and Trusts (15th edn, 2022) and a contributor to Snell's Equity (Sweet & Maxwell 34th edn, 2020) and Chitty on Contracts (35th edn, 2023).

Nicholas Hopkins is a Law Commissioner for England and Wales and Professor of Law at the University of Reading. Prior to his appointment as Commissioner he taught land law for over twenty years, and he has published widely on the topic. Amongst other projects, he has led the Law Commission's review of the Land Registration Act 2002 and its work on residential leasehold and commonhold. He is an academic member of the Property Bar Association, a member of the Property Litigation Association, and an Honorary Bencher of Middle Temple.

Sarah Nield is Emeritus Professor of Property Law at Southampton University. She has been teaching land law since 1982, having previously held posts at Hong Kong University and the University of Bristol and has also taught conveyancing, equity and trusts and company law. Sarah is published widely in the area of property law and is also a qualified solicitor.

Summary

Land Law: Text, Cases, and Materials combines insightful author commentary with carefully selected extracts to fully support students.

Additional text

This is a well-written, comprehensive textbook which covers a broad range of laws.

Report

Offers a range and depth not available in most other textbooks. Dr Bonnie Holligan, Senior Lecturer in Law, University of Sussex

Product details

• Authors: Nicholas Hopkins, Hopkins Nicholas, Ben Mcfarlane, Ben (Professor of English Law McFarlane, McFarlane Ben, Sarah Nield, Nield Sarah
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.08.2024
• EAN: 9780198893226
• ISBN: 978-0-19-889322-6
• No. of pages: 1168
• Series: Text, Cases, And Materials
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Law > General, dictionaries; LAW / Real Estate, United Kingdom, Great Britain, Land & real estate law, Land and real estate law / Real property law