Estate Management Law
6th Edition
Published on 30. September 2003
Book
Paperback/Softback
788 pages
978-0-406-96375-8 (ISBN)
Description
This well-established textbook offers an in-depth view of law for students of estate and land management, commencing with the English legal system, the law of contract, the law of tort, and land law, leading to closing sections on the law of landlord and tenant and planning law, taking into account recent statutory provisions on the way. These include the Human Rights Act 1998, the Contract (Rights of Third Parties) Act 1999, and the Land Registration Act 2002.
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Edition
6th Revised edition
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Oxford University Press
Target group
College/higher education
Edition type
Revised edition
Illustrations
index
Dimensions
Height: 257 mm
Width: 154 mm
Weight
1089 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-406-96375-8 (9780406963758)
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Content
PART I: OUTLINE OF THE ENGLISH LEGAL SYSTEM; 1. Introduction; 2. Administration of the Law; 3. Sources of English Law; PART II: THE LAW OF CONTRACT; 4. Introduction; 5. Agreement; 6. Binding Agreement; 7. Contractual Terms; 8. Performance and Breach; 9. Exemption Clauses; 10. Discharge by Frustration; 11. Remedies for Breach of Contract; 12. Misrepresentation, Duress and Undue Influence; 13. Contracts in Restraint of Trade; 14. Third Party Rights or Obligations under a Contract; 15. Agency; PART III: THE LAW OF TORT; 16. Introduction; 17. Negligence - Duty of Care; 18. Negligence - Breach of Duty; 19. Negligence - the Causing of Damage; 20. Defences to Negligence; 21. Liability for Dangerous Premises; 22. Breach of Statutory Duty; 23. Trespass to Land; 24. Nuisance; 25. Strict Liability; 26. Animals; 27. Vicarious Liability; 28. Remedies; PART IV: LAND LAW; 29. Land, its Ownership, and Use; 30. The Formal Acquisition of Rights to Land; 31. The Informal Acquisition of Rights to Land; 32. Concurrent Ownership; 33. Easements; 34. Restrictive Covenants; 35. Mortgages; 36. Enforceability of Interests in Land; PART V: THE LAW OF LANDLORD AND TENANT; 37. Landlord and Tenant: The General Law; 38. Landlord and Tenant: Statutory Protection; PART VI: PLANNING LAW; 39. The Operation of the Planning System and its Legal Framework; 40. The Law of Development Control and its Enforcement; INDEX