Land Law

Text, Cases & Materials

Fourth Edition

Ben McFarlane, Nicholas Hopkins, and Sarah Nield

Text, Cases, and Materials

Combines insightful author commentary with carefully selected extracts to provide a thought-provoking and contextualized account of the subject
Incorporates the authors' unique approach to land law which helps students understand how rules work in isolation as well as how they interlink. This approach benefits them with the tools to accomplish high-level analysis quickly
Provides detailed discussion of key land law cases, drawing together extracts from leading judgments, responses to controversial decisions, and the authors' own opinion to create a well-rounded account of the subject
Takes a thorough, detailed, and critical approach to the subject, providing a framework to support students throughout their course
Each chapter begins with a discussion of 'central issues', providing an at-a-glance account of the key debates and principles shaping each area of law supplying valuable context for students
Includes end-of-chapter questions and further reading suggestions to support study of the subject and to help students prepare for assessments
Accompanied by online resources, including multiple-choice-questions with instant feedback

New to this Edition:

Treatment of the Court of Appeals decision in Best v Chief Land Registrar on the impact on adverse possession of the criminalisation of squatting in a residential building
Discussion on Baker v Craggs which raises a number of issues relating to the definition of a legal estate, the registration gap, and overreaching
Consideration of the impact of the decision in McDonald v McDonald on horizontal effect in the private rental context
Coverage of the Court of Appeal decisions in Davies v Davies (proprietary estoppel), Mortgage Express v Lambert (overreaching) and Regency Villas Title Ltd v Diamond Resorts Ltd (recreational easements)
A revised Chapter 18: The registered title, rectification and indemnity which examines the Law Commissions 2016 Consultation Paper on Updating the Land Registration Act 2002

Land Law

Text, Cases & Materials

Fourth Edition

Ben McFarlane, Nicholas Hopkins, and Sarah Nield

Description

Land Law: Text, Cases, and Materials has been designed to provide students with everything they need to approach their land law course with confidence. Experts in the area, the authors combine clear and insightful commentary with carefully chosen extracts to offer students a full account of the subject.

Using the popular Text, Cases and Materials format the authors take a critical approach to the subject, presenting thought-provoking analysis of the leading case-law in the area and inviting students to develop their own analytical skills ready for exams.

Covering a broad range of topics, the authors have used their unique approach to land law to provide a consistent structure with which students and lecturers can tackle the subject. This approach arms students with the tools needed to analyse content autonomously by demonstrating how to consider rules in isolation before looking at the full picture. This method helps students make links across topics.

Online resources
The book is accompanied by online resources, including multiple-choice questions with instant feedback.

Land Law

Text, Cases & Materials

Fourth Edition

Ben McFarlane, Nicholas Hopkins, and Sarah Nield

Text, Cases, and Materials

Part A: Introduction
1:What's special about land?
2:What is land?
3:Registration
Part B: The Content Question
4:Human rights and land
5:Legal estates and legal interests
6:Equitable interests
7:Personal rights
Part C: The Acquisition Question
8:Formal methods of acquisition: contracts and deeds
9:Informal methods of acquisition: adverse possession
10:Proprietary estoppel
11:Trusts
Part D: The Shared Home
12:Interests in the home: the acquisition question
13:Regulating co-ownership: the content question
14:Co-ownership and third parties: applications for sale
Part E: The Defences Question and Land Registration
15:The priority triangle
16:Registered land and priorities
17:Overreaching
18:The registered title, rectification and indemnity
Part F: Leases
19:Leases
20:Regulating leases and protecting occupiers
21:Leasehold covenants
Part G: Neighbours and Neighbourhoods
22:Easements
23:Freehold covenants
24:Flat ownership: long leases and commonhold
Part H: Security Interests
25:Security interests in land
26:Lender's rights and remedies
27:Protection of borrower

Land Law

Text, Cases & Materials

Fourth Edition

Ben McFarlane, Nicholas Hopkins, and Sarah Nield

Text, Cases, and Materials

Author Information

Ben McFarlane, Professor of Law, University College London, Nicholas Hopkins, Law Commissioner for England and Wales and Professor of Law, University of Reading, and Sarah Nield, Professor of Property Law, University of Southampton

Ben McFarlane is Professor of Law at University College London. He has published a number of articles on land law in leading journals and is the author of The Law of Proprietary Estoppel (OUP, 2014) and The Structure of Property Law (Hart, 2008). He is also a contributing editor of Snells's Equity (Sweet & Maxwell).

Nicholas Hopkins is a Law Commissioner for England and Wales and Professor of Law at the University of Reading. He has published widely on land law and has a particular interest in law and the family home. He is chair of the board of Modern Studies in Property Law, an academic member of the Property Bar Association and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts. Prior to his appointment as Commissioner he taught land law for over twenty years.

Sarah Nield is a Professor of Property Law at Southampton University. She has been teaching land law since 1982, having previously held posts at Hong Kong University and the University of Bristol and has also taught conveyancing, equity and trusts and company law. Sarah is published widely in the area of property law and is also a qualified solicitor.

Land Law

Text, Cases & Materials

Fourth Edition

Ben McFarlane, Nicholas Hopkins, and Sarah Nield

Text, Cases, and Materials

Reviews and Awards

"A first rate book, thorough treatment of the topics, stimulating and scholarly." - Rod Edmunds, Senior Lecturer, Queen Mary University of London

"An excellent in depth account." - Gwilym Owen, Lecturer in Law, Bangor University

"Very useful at all stages of study, from pre-reading, lecture revision, seminar reading, essay writing to exam preparation." - Dr Lu Xu, Senior Lecturer, Lancaster University

"The authors offer the best balance between depth of coverage and ease of access. It encourages students to engage with the topics and provides them with a coherent structure and set of principles through which the subject can be understood." - Lorenzo Maniscalco, College Lecturer in Law, University of Cambridge