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Author / Creator:MacKenzie, Judith-Anne.
Edition:10th ed.
Imprint:Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2004.
Description:xxxii, 603 p. ; 25 cm.
Language:English
Subject:
Real property -- England.
Real property -- Wales.
Land tenure -- Law and legislation -- England.
Land tenure -- Law and legislation -- Wales.
Land tenure -- Law and legislation.
Real property.
England.
Wales.
Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/5669904
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Other authors / contributors:Phillips, Mary, 1937-
ISBN:0199261628
Notes:Previous ed.: 2002.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of Contents:
  • Preface
  • Table of cases
  • Table of statutes
  • Table of statutory instruments
  • Part I. Introduction
  • 1. Estates and interests in land
  • 1.1. Introduction
  • 1.2. Estate in fee simple absolute in possession (`freehold estate')
  • 1.3. Term of years absolute (`leasehold estate')
  • 1.4. Interests in land
  • 1.5. Legal interests
  • 1.6. Equitable interests
  • 1.7. Legal interests and equitable interests compared
  • 1.8. A multiplicity of rights
  • 1.9. Classification of property
  • 1.10. Human Rights Act 1998
  • Part II. Acquisition of estates in land
  • 2. Buying a house
  • 2.1. The properties
  • 2.2. Two systems of title
  • 2.3. Outline of the conveyancing process
  • 3. The contract
  • 3.1. Introduction
  • 3.2. Contracts made on or after 27 September 1989
  • 3.3. Contracts made before 27 September 1989
  • 3.4. Part performance after the 1989 Act
  • 3.5. The next stage: electronic contracts
  • 3.6. Effect of the contract: passing of the equitable interest
  • 3.7. Remedies for breach of contract
  • 3.8. Application to 3 Trant Way
  • 4. Unregistered land
  • 4.1. Introduction: 3 Trant Way
  • 4.2. Ownership of the estate
  • 4.3. Checking for encumbrances
  • 4.4. Land charges
  • 4.5. Legal or equitable interests which are not land charges
  • 4.6. Summary of searches to be made in relation to unregistered land
  • 4.7. The conveyance
  • 4.8. Application for first registration
  • 5. Registered land
  • 5.1. Introduction
  • 5.2. Need for reform
  • 5.3. What can be registered?
  • 5.4. First registration
  • 5.5. Registering title for the first time
  • 5.6. Dealings with a registered estate
  • 5.7. Buying a house with registered title
  • 5.8. Interests protected by entries on the register
  • 5.9. Interests that override a registered disposition
  • 5.10. Interests of persons in actual occupation
  • 5.11. Discovering encumbrances: searches and enquiries
  • 5.12. Alteration of the register and indemnity
  • 5.13. Transfer and completion by registration
  • 5.14. Electronic conveyancing
  • 5.15. Purchasers of other interests
  • 6. Acquisition of an estate by adverse possession
  • 6.1. Introduction
  • 6.2. Establishing adverse possession
  • 6.3. Adverse possession of unregistered land
  • 6.4. Adverse possession of registered land under LRA 1925
  • 6.5. Need for reform of rules relating to registered land
  • 6.6. Adverse possession of registered land under LRA 2002
  • 6.7. Adverse possession and HRA 1998
  • Part III. Legal estates
  • 7. The freehold estate
  • 7.1. Introduction
  • 7.2. Fee simple
  • 7.3. Absolute
  • 7.4. In possession
  • 7.5. Intervention of public policy
  • 8. The leasehold estate
  • 8.1. Introduction
  • 8.2. Basic requirements for a lease
  • 8.3. Creation of leases
  • 8.4. Disposition of leases and reversions
  • 8.5. Determining a lease
  • 8.6. Determination by discharge of contract
  • 8.7. Determination by joint tenants
  • 8.8. `Contractualisation' of leases
  • 8.9. Effect on subtenant of determination of head lease
  • 8.10. Some more types of lease
  • 9. Obligations of landlord and tenant
  • 9.1. Introduction
  • 9.2. Express covenants
  • 9.3. Implied and usual covenants
  • 9.4. Enforcement of covenants
  • 9.5. Position of original Parties after transfer of lease and/or reversion
  • 9.6. Position of new landlord and/or tenant after transfer of lease and/or reversion
  • 9.7. Enforcement of covenants in the Trant Way tenancies
  • 9.8. Effect on a subtenant of covenants in the head lease
  • 10. Remedies for breach of leasehold covenants
  • 10.1. General contractual remedies
  • 10.2. Tenant's remedies against a defaulting landlord
  • 10.3. Landlord's remedies against a defaulting tenant
  • 11. Commonhold
  • 11.1. Introduction
  • 11.2. The commonhold scheme
  • 11.3. Creating commonhold
  • 11.4. Managing a commonhold property
  • 11.5. Nature of a unit holder's interest
  • 11.6. Ending commonhold
  • 11.7. Evaluation
  • Part IV. Trusts and proprietary estoppel
  • 12. Trusts: an introduction
  • 12.1. Nature and creation of trusts
  • 12.2. Circumstances in which land may be held on trust
  • 12.3. A short historical background
  • 12.4. Law Commission proposals for reform
  • 12.5. Trusts of Land and Appointment of Trustees Act 1996
  • 13. Co-ownership
  • 13.1. Background
  • 13.2. Introduction
  • 13.3. Two types of co-ownership
  • 13.4. Imposition of statutory trusts
  • 13.5. Severance of a joint tenancy
  • 13.6. Relationship between co-owners
  • 13.7. Ending co-ownership
  • 13.8. Some practical advice
  • 14. Trusts of land
  • 14.1. Introduction
  • 14.2. Creating a settlement of 20 Trant Way
  • 14.3. How many trustees are needed and who appoints them?
  • 14.4. What do trustees do?
  • 14.5. Are there any controls over the exercise of trustees' powers?
  • 14.6. Can beneficiaries be involved in the management of the property?
  • 14.7. Do beneficiaries have a right to occupy the trust property?
  • 14.8. How are disputes about the trust property resolved?
  • 14.9. Are purchasers willing to buy trust property?
  • 14.10. Trusts of land replace new Settled Land Act settlements
  • 14.11. Comparison of old and new law
  • 15. Settled Land Act settlements
  • 15.1. Introduction
  • 15.2. Types of settlement
  • 15.3. Tenant for life
  • 15.4. Trustees
  • 15.5. Creating a settlement
  • 15.6. Powers of a tenant for life
  • 15.7. Giving notice and obtaining consent
  • 15.8. A tenant for life is trustee of his powers
  • 15.9. Defective dispositions
  • 15.10. Role of trustees of settlements
  • 15.11. End of a settlement
  • 16. Perpetuities and accumulations
  • 16.1. Future interests
  • 16.2. The basic rules
  • 16.3. Legislative modifications
  • 16.4. Breadth of application of rules
  • 16.5. Accumulations
  • 16.6. Reforms
  • 17. Resulting and constructive trusts
  • 17.1. Introduction
  • 17.2. Resulting trusts
  • 17.3. Constructive trusts
  • 17.4. Trusts arising from contribution
  • 17.5. Establishing the claim to a share in the beneficial interest
  • 17.6. Quantifying the share
  • 18. Proprietary estoppel
  • 18.1. Introduction
  • 18.2. Nature of proprietary estoppel
  • 18.3. Criteria for proprietary estoppel
  • 18.4. Satisfying the equity
  • 18.5. Nature of the equity arising from estoppel
  • 18.6. Situations in which there is `no room' for proprietary estoppel
  • 18.7. Relationship between proprietary estoppel and constructive trusts
  • Part V. Licences
  • 19. Nature of a licence
  • 19.1. Introduction
  • 19.2. Distinguishing a lease from a licence
  • 19.3. Distinguishing an easement or profit from a licence
  • 20. Enforcement of a licence
  • 20.1. Introduction
  • 20.2. Enforcement against the licensor
  • 20.3. Enforcement against successors of the licensor
  • 20.4. Are licences becoming interests in land?
  • 20.5. Trant Way
  • Part VI. Third-Party rights
  • 21. Mortgages and charges
  • 21.1. Background
  • 21.2. Introduction
  • 21.3. What is a mortgage or charge?
  • 21.4. Legal mortgages
  • 21.5. Equitable mortgages
  • 21.6. Rights of the mortgagor
  • 21.7. Rights of the mortgagee
  • 21.8. Mortgagees' remedies
  • 21.9. Right of certain third Parties to redeem
  • 21.10. Liability of mortgagees, receivers and valuers for fraud or negligence
  • 21.11. Terminating a mortgage
  • 21.12. Priorities
  • 21.13. Priorities of mortgages of an equitable interest
  • 21.14. Priorities of mortgages of the legal estate
  • 21.15. Priorities of three or more mortgages
  • 21.16. Mortgagee's right to tack further advances
  • 21.17. Interests prior to the mortgage: a cause for concern to the mortgagee
  • 22. Easements and profits a prendre
  • 22.1. Introduction
  • 22.2. What is an easement?
  • 22.3. What is a profit a prendre?
  • 22.4. Easements and profits may be legal or equitable
  • 22.5. Acquisition by express grant or reservation
  • 22.6. Acquisition by implied grant or reservation
  • 22.7. Acquisition by express grant by virtue of LPA 1925, s. 62
  • 22.8. Acquisition by prescription
  • 22.9. Remedies
  • 22.10. Extinguishment of easements and profits
  • 22.11. Law reform
  • 23. Covenants relating to freehold land
  • 23.1. Introduction
  • 23.2. Trant Way
  • 23.3. Enforceability of covenants: original Parties
  • 23.4. Enforceability of covenants: successors of the original Parties
  • 23.5. The problem of positive covenants
  • 23.6. Remedies
  • 23.7. Discharge of covenants
  • 23.8. Reform of the law relating to burdens running with the land
  • Part VII. In conclusion
  • 24. The family home
  • 24.1. Introduction
  • 24.2. Right to a share in the value of the house
  • 24.3. Right to remain in occupation
  • 24.4. Reform
  • 25. What is land?
  • 25.1. The statutory definition
  • 25.2. Earth, minerals, buildings and fixtures
  • 25.3. Hereditaments
  • 25.4. Real and personal property (or, realty and personalty)
  • 25.5. Flying freehold
  • Bibliography
  • Glossary
  • Index
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