Autorentext

Dr Aruna Nair is a Fellow and Tutor in Law at Hertford College, Oxford, where she teaches the law of trusts and land law. She is also an Associate Professor at the Faculty of Law at the University of Oxford, where she lectures on aspects of the law on land registration and trustee duties. She was previously a lecturer at King's College London and, before that, a research assistant with the Property, Family and Trusts team at the Law Commission for England and Wales.

Klappentext

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.

Inhalt

• 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?