This text is designed to provide a balanced approach to the exposition of land law as it stands after the enactment of the Trusts of Land and Appointment of Trustees Act 1996 and Land Registration Act of 1997, but it is also an attempt to see how land law might look in years to come. The traditional division between registered and unregistered land ceases to be tenable when all land has to be registered after any dealing. As the opening passage of this book shows, the consequence of this is that unregistered land is, like the red squirrel, threatened with extinction. The work looks at how the two systems are designed to dovetail together. Any new approach creates some rents in the traditional ordering and terminology of a subject, but a deliberate attempt has been made to limit the restructuring so that traditionalists will still feel comfortable with what emerges. By dovetailing discussion of registered and unregistered land, the author presents a map of land law which offers to enable students to understand the realities of the subject without abandoning many of the concepts and structures with which teachers and practitioners will already be familiar.
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Höhe: 234 mm
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978-1-84113-012-5 (9781841130125)
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Peter Sparkes is Professor of Law at the University of Southampton.
The register: the registration system; registration of estates; compulsion; contents of an individual register; physical proof of title; registered and unregistered titles; the open register; the Land Registry. A land law atlas: the new and old worlds; Birkenhead - the 1925 legislation; a map of property law; into the future - the Law Commission; Europe; Strasbourg and home - fundamental rights to property. Estates: freehold ownership; the fee simple absolute in possession; identification of the estate; behaviour of the freehold estate; law and equity; beneficial interests; beneficial interests - perpetuities; the Crown and feudal lords; freedom of sale; exceptional cases of termination of the freehold; exceptional cases of legal shifting; summary. Sale: proof of title; proof of registered title; proof of unregistered title; land registry checks on unregistered titles; mechanics - transfer of registered land; mechanics - towards electronic conveyancing; mechanics - first registration of unregistered land; Land Registry chains; Land Registry fees; powers of attorney. Trusts of land: forms of trust of land; overreaching; the curtain - unregistered land; the curtain - registered land; the curtain - consents, restricted powers and delegations; the curtain - trustees; interests overreached; power-based overreaching; management trusts; pre-1997 trusts for sale; pre-1997 strict settlements. One-trustee trusts: general - failure to overreach; general - the existence of an informal trust; unregistered land - notice; unregistered land - occupiers; unregistered land - recipients of rent; registered land - priority of one-trustee trusts; registered land - occupiers; registered land - when occupiers bite; registered land - recipients of rent; registered land - reform; general - removal of protection from occupiers. Burdens - classification: property rights; automatic legal burdens; protection by deposit of deeds; classes of land charge; overreachable interests; residual burdens on unregistered land; protectable burdens in registered land; vacation; company charges. Burdens - methods of protection: registered land - protective entries; registered land - searches; protective occupation; land charge s- registration; land charges - searches; priority - land charges; priority - minor interests; priority - other solutions; registered land - reform of the law of burdens. Formality: legal formality; deeds made by individuals; deeds executed by companies; contracts - formation; contracts - special cases; contracts - completeness; informal contracts. Informal trusts: family homes; express trusts; resulting trusts; contributions-based constructive trusts; other explanations for cash injections; intention based constructive trusts; illegality; alternatives to common intention. Proprietary estoppel: doctrinal base; negative expectations (defensive estoppel); positive expectations; contractual expectations; inducement; detrimental reliance. (Part Contents).
