Land Law: Text, Cases, and Materials / Ben McFarlane; Nicholas Hopkins; Sarah Nield

A. INTRODUCTION ; 1. What's special about land? ; 2. What is land? ; 3. Human rights and land ; B. THE CONTENT QUESTION ; 4. Legal estates and legal interests ; 5. Equitable interests ; 6. Direct rights ; C1. THE ACQUISITION QUESTION ; 7. Formal methods of acquisition: contracts, deeds and registration ; 8. Informal methods of acquisition: adverse possession ; C2. THE ACQUISITION OF AN EQUITABLE INTEREST IN LAND ; 9. The doctrine of anticipation: Walsh v Lonsdale ; 10. Proprietary estoppel ; 11. Trusts: The acquisition question ; D. PRIORITY AND THE DEFENCES QUESTION ; 12. The priority triangle ; 13. Unregistered land and priorities ; 14. Registered land and priorities ; 15. Evaluating the Land Registration Act 2002 ; E. THE SHARED HOME ; 16. Interests in the home: the acquisition question ; 17. Regulating co-ownership: the content question ; 18. Co-ownership and third parties: applications for sale ; 19. Co-ownership and priorities: the defences question ; 20. Successive ownership ; F. LICENCES AND LEASES ; 21. Licences ; 22. Leases ; 23. Regulating leases and protecting occupiers ; 24. Leasehold covenants ; G: NEIGHBOURS AND NEIGHBOURHOODS ; 25. Easements ; 26. Freehold covenants ; 27. Flat ownership: long leases and commonhold ; H: SECURITY RIGHTS ; 28. Security interests in land ; 29. Protection of the borrower ; 30. Lender's rights and remedies

An authoritative course text designed to provide a standalone resource for students. It contains a blend of carefully selected key cases, legislation and academic debate linked by substantial author commentary.