Contents
Table of Cases
Table of Statutes
Preface to the Fourth Edition
1 Introduction to Land Law
1.1 How to Study Land Law
1.2 Land Law Rules
1.3 Land Law Today
1.4 ‘Land’
1.5 Estates and Interests in Land
1.6 Comment
Summary
Exercises
Buying and Selling Land
2.1 Introduction
2.2 A Typical Domestic Sale
2.3 Transfer of the Equitable Interest
2.4 Enforcing the Contract
2.5 The Intervention of Equity
2.6 The New Law: The Extension of ‘Proprietary Estoppel’
2.7 Transfer of the Legal Interest
2.8 Comment
Summary
Exercises
3 Adverse Possession
3.1 Introduction
3.2 The Basic Issues
3.3 The Basic Rules
3.4 The Requirements of Adverse Possession
3.5 How the Paper Owner Can Recover the Land
3.6 The Effect of a Successful Claim of Adverse Possession
3.7 Leases
3.8 The Law Commissions Proposals for Reform
3.9 Comment
Summary
Exercises
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