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Complete Land Law provides a comprehensive yet accessible introduction to the subject, combining extracts from key cases and legislation with clear author explanations and commentary. Diagrams, summaries and questions further support the text, making it the ideal guide for students new to the subject.

Combining clear author commentary with essential extracts from legislation and cases, Complete Land Law offers a comprehensive yet student-focused guide to the subject. A wide range of extracts are included, providing convenient and reliable access to all the materials you will need throughout your course.

Author explanations and commentary are supported by a range of learning features designed to reinforce and develop your understanding of key concepts and case-law. Chapter summaries and review questions help test your knowledge as you move through the topics, while thinking points and essay questions develop your critical awareness of key land law debates and provide essential preparation for exams.

Both experienced lecturers, the authors address areas of difficulty with clarity. Examples and diagrams are included throughout the text to illustrate difficult concepts and provide an overview of complex processes. These scenarios demonstrate how abstract land law concepts apply in practice, helping to complete your understanding and develop your own problem-solving skills ready for exams.

Complete Land Law is also accompanied by an Online Resource Centre which includes:
* updates from the authors to keep you up-to-date with new cases and developments in land law
* outline answers to the questions in the book, allowing you to check your understanding ahead of exams and assessment
* an interactive glossary to demystify land law jargon and support revision
* further reading and weblinks to support independent research and essay preparation

For lecturers the Online Resource Centre also includes electronic versions of the figures from the book for use in handouts and lectures and a testbank of multiple choice questions ready for use in class-testing and assessments.

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Review from previous edition An excellent textbook. The combination of case summaries and passages from judgments, incisive commentary, and extracts from key materials, makes this an ideal text for undergraduate study. Sam Burton, Senior Lecturer in Law, Sheffield Hallam University

Acknowledgements xxvii
Table of Cases
xxviii
Table of Statutes
xxxvii
Table of Statutory Instruments
xliii
Part 1 Introduction: Estates and Interests in Land
1(64)
Chapter 1 Introduction to the Types of Property Rights in Land
3(25)
1.1 Real Property and Personal Property
8(1)
1.1.1 Real Property
8(1)
1.1.2 Personal Property
8(1)
1.2 Property Rights which Give Immediate Use and Enjoyment of Land
9(2)
1.2.1 Fee Simple Estate
9(1)
1.2.2 Leases
10(1)
1.3 Property Rights against Land Owned by Other People
11(10)
1.3.1 Mortgages
11(1)
1.3.2 Restrictive Covenants
12(1)
1.3.3 Easements
12(1)
1.3.4 Profits a Prendre
13(1)
1.3.5 Rentcharges
13(1)
1.3.6 Rights of Occupation: `Home Rights'
14(1)
1.3.7 Interest Under a Resulting or Constructive Trust (Implied Trusts)
14(1)
1.3.8 Proprietary Estoppel
15(1)
1.3.9 Estate Contracts
16(1)
1.3.10 Options
17(1)
1.3.11 The Trust
17(4)
1.4 Proof of Title to Land
21(7)
1.4.1 Importance of Proof of Title
21(1)
1.4.2 Methods of Proving that a Vendor has Good Title
22(1)
1.4.3 Unregistered Title
22(2)
1.4.4 Registered Title
24(4)
Chapter 2 Tenures and Estates
28(15)
2.1 Feudal Tenures
29(1)
2.2 Leasehold Tenure
30(1)
2.3 Commonhold: A New Tenure for the Twenty-First Century
30(2)
2.3.1 The Problem Commonhold is Designed to Solve
30(1)
2.3.2 Commonhold Tenure to the Rescue
31(1)
2.3.3 Common Parts in a Commonhold
32(1)
2.4 Estates
32(1)
2.5 Fee Simple
33(3)
2.5.1 Fee Simple Estates before 1926
33(1)
2.5.2 Fee Simple Estates after 1925
34(1)
2.5.3 Modified Fee Simple Estates
34(2)
2.6 Fee Tail
36(1)
2.7 Life Estates
37(1)
2.8 Estates in Possession, Reversion, and Remainder
38(1)
2.8.1 Estate in Possession
38(1)
2.8.2 Estate in Reversion
38(1)
2.8.3 Estate in Remainder
38(1)
2.9 Interests under Trusts
39(4)
Chapter 3 Creation of Legal and Equitable Rights in Land
43(22)
3.1 Legal and Equitable Property Rights
44(1)
3.1.1 Legal Property Rights
44(1)
3.1.2 Equitable Property Rights
44(1)
3.1.3 Legal and Equitable Property Rights after 1925
45(1)
3.2 Creation and Transfer of Legal Property Rights
45(1)
3.2.1 Formalities for a Deed: the Traditional Rule
45(1)
3.2.2 Formalities for a Deed: the Modem Rule
46(1)
3.3 Creation of Equitable Interests in Land
46(1)
3.3.1 `Equity Follows the Law' as to Types of Property Right
47(1)
3.4 Creation of Equitable Interests in Land by Express Trust
47(1)
3.5 Creation of Equitable Interests by a Contract to Convey or Create a Legal Estate or Interest
48(9)
3.5.1 Contracts for the Sale of Estates or Interests in Land
48(1)
3.5.2 Formalities for Contracts to Sell Estates or Interests in Land
48(2)
3.5.3 Exchange of Contracts
50(1)
3.5.4 Estate Contracts
51(5)
3.5.5 A Contract to Create Rights in Land Itself Creates an Equitable Interest in the Land
56(1)
3.6 An Informal Grant of Rights in Land May Be Treated as a Contract and so Creates an Equitable Interest in Land
57(3)
3.6.1 Limits on the Principle that a Contract or Informal Grant Creates an Equitable Interest
58(2)
3.7 Grant of an Estate or Interest by a Person Who Owns Only an Equitable Interest
60(1)
3.8 Grants of Interests Which Can Exist Only in Equity
61(4)
Part 2 Unregistered Land
65(52)
Chapter 4 Protection of Legal and Equitable Property Rights before 1925
67(17)
4.1 Legal and Equitable Property Rights: Case Study-High Chimneys
68(2)
4.1.1 The Legal Property Rights of Olabode and Pierce
69(1)
4.1.2 The Equitable Property Right of Gianluca
70(1)
4.2 The Elements of the Doctrine of Notice
70(7)
4.2.1 Bona Fide
71(1)
4.2.2 Purchaser for Value
71(1)
4.2.3 Purchaser of a Legal Estate or Legal Interest
72(2)
4.2.4 Without Notice of the Equitable Interest
74(3)
4.3 Case Study---Brakenhill House
77(3)
4.4 Position of Successors in Title to a Purchaser without Notice
80(4)
Chapter 5 The Impact of the 1925 Legislation
84(12)
5.1 Legal Estates and Interests and the 1925 Legislation
85(1)
5.1.1 The Number of Types of Legal Estates and Interests prior to 1925
85(1)
5.1.2 The Effect of the 1925 Legislation
85(1)
5.1.3 Law of Property Act 1925, s1
85(1)
5.2 Legal Estates Existing after 1925
86(4)
5.2.1 Term of Years Absolute
87(1)
5.2.2 Fee Simple Absolute in Possession
87(3)
5.3 Legal Interests Existing after 1925
90(2)
5.3.1 (a) Easements and Profits
90(1)
5.3.2 (b) Rentcharges
90(1)
5.3.3 [ c] `A Charge by Way of Legal Mortgage'
91(1)
5.3.4 (d) All Interests in Land which Arise by Operation of Statute
91(1)
5.3.5 (e) Rights of Entry
91(1)
5.4 Equitable Interests after 1925
92(4)
5.4.1 The Status of Fees Tail, Fees Simple in Remainder, Determinable Fees, and Life Estates
92(4)
Chapter 6 Status of Equitable Interests after 1925
96(21)
6.1 Registration of Land Charges
97(14)
6.1.1 The Operation of the Land Charges Register
99(1)
6.1.2 Searches of the Land Charges Register
100(2)
6.1.3 Equitable Interests Registrable as Land Charges
102(2)
6.1.4 Legal Interests Registrable as Land Charges
104(1)
6.1.5 Consequences of Failure to Register a Land Charge
105(3)
6.1.6 Other Registers Associated with the Land Charges Register
108(1)
6.1.7 Searches of the Land Charges Register---The Importance of the Official Search Certificate
109(2)
6.2 Overreachable Equitable Interests
111(2)
6.2.1 The Essence of Overreaching
111(1)
6.2.2 Overreaching Where There is a Trust for Sale
112(1)
6.2.3 Overreaching Where There is a Trust of Land
112(1)
6.2.4 Overreaching Where There is a Strict Settlement
112(1)
6.2.5 Overreaching on a Sale by Personal Representatives
113(1)
6.2.6 Overreaching on a Sale by a Mortgagee of Mortgaged Land
113(1)
6.3 Equitable Interests Still Subject to the Doctrine of Notice
113(4)
Part 3 Registered Land
117(60)
Chapter 7 Registration of Title---The Basic Principles
119(23)
7.1 Registration of Title
120(2)
7.1.1 Mirror Principle
121(1)
7.1.2 Curtain Principle
121(1)
7.1.3 Insurance Principle
121(1)
7.2 The Form of the Register
122(4)
7.2.1 The Property Part
125(1)
7.2.2 The Proprietorship Part
126(1)
7.2.3 The Charges Part
126(1)
7.3 Categories of Rights in Registered Land
126(1)
7.3.1 The Terminology Used by the Land Registration Act 2002
127(1)
7.4 First Registration of Title
127(3)
7.4.1 Compulsory First Registration
127(2)
7.4.2 Voluntary Registration
129(1)
7.5 Register of Estates Not Register of Plots
130(1)
7.6 Procedure Where a Sale or Lease Gives Rise to First Registration
131(2)
7.6.1 Applications for First Registration
132(1)
7.6.2 Which Third Party Interests Bind a First Registered Proprietor?
132(1)
7.7 Grades of Title
133(3)
7.7.1 Freeholds
133(1)
7.7.2 Leaseholds
134(2)
7.8 Land Certificates
136(1)
7.9 Conclusiveness of the Register
136(1)
7.10 Dispositions of Registered Titles
136(1)
710.1 Powers of Disposition
136(2)
7.10.2 Registrable Dispositions
137(1)
7.11 Procedure on Transfer of a Registered Title
138(4)
Chapter 8 Minor Interests and Overriding Interests
142(35)
8.1 Minor Interests
143(1)
8.2 Protection of Minor Interests
144(2)
8.2.1 Notice
144(1)
8.2.2 Restrictions
145(1)
8.3 Priorities of Interests in Registered Land
146(5)
8.3.1 Fraud and Bad Faith
147(4)
8.4 Searches of the Register
151(1)
8.5 Overriding Interests [ or Unregistered Interests Which Override Registered Dispositions]
151(26)
8.5.1 Local Land Charges
152(1)
8.5.2 Easements and Profits
152(3)
8.5.3 Short Term Leases
155(1)
8.5.4 Property Rights of a Person in Actual Occupation
155(13)
8.5.5 The Doctrine of Notice not Applicable to Registered Land
168(9)
Part 4 Acquisition of Interests in Land (I)
177(118)
Chapter 9 Trusts of Land
179(41)
9.1 The Three Types of Trust Underthe Old Law
180(1)
9.1.1 The Bare Trust
180(1)
9.1.2 The Strict Settlement
181(1)
9.1.3 The Trust for Sale
181(1)
9.2 Criticism of the Old Law Governing Bare Trusts of Land
181(1)
9.3 Criticisms of Strict Settlements and the Settled Land Act 1925
182(2)
9.3.1 An Anomalous Form of Trust
182(1)
9.3.2 Limited Powers of Disposition of Life Tenants
182(1)
9.3.3 Complex Documentation
182(1)
9.3.4 Accidental Strict Settlements
182(2)
9.4 Criticisms of the Trust for Sale
184(4)
9.4.1 The Artificial Nature of the Duty to Sell
184(1)
9.4.2 The Archaic Doctrine of `Conversion'
185(1)
9.4.3 Doubts as to Whether Beneficiaries Have a Right to Occupy the Land
185(1)
9.4.4 Limited Powers of Trustees for Sale
185(1)
9.4.5 The Anomalous Concept of a Trust for Sale Subject to Consents
186(1)
9.4.6 `Old Law'---Everybody Used Trusts for Sale
187(1)
9.5 The Definition of a Trust of Land
188(5)
9.5.1 Existing Trusts for Sale
188(1)
9.5.2 Trusts for Sale Arising after 1996
189(1)
9.5.3 Deliberately Created Trusts of Land after the Commencement of the 1996 Act
190(1)
9.5.4 Bare Trusts after 1996
190(1)
9.5.5 Constructive Trusts Affecting Land
190(1)
9.5.6 Treatment of Transactions Which Would Have Been Strict Settlements
191(2)
9.6 The Need for Two Trustees for a Trust of Land
193(1)
9.7 Appointment, Retirement, and Removal of Trustees
193(4)
9.7.1 The Original Trustees
194(1)
9.7.2 Appointing Fresh Trustees to an Existing Trust
194(1)
9.7.3 When May New Appointments Be Made?
195(1)
9.7.4 Removal of Trustees
195(1)
9.7.5 Retirement of Trustees
196(1)
9.7.5 Situations Where a Trustee is Also a Beneficiary
197(1)
9.8 Method of Appointment of Trustees
197(1)
9.9 Unanimity of Trustees
198(1)
9.9.1 Exceptions to the Unanimity Rule
198(1)
9.10 The Powers of Disposition of Trustees of Land
199(1)
9.11 The Trustees' Duties on Exercising their Powers
200(6)
9.11.1 Specific Duties of Trustees of Land
200(1)
9.11.2 Placing Trustees of Land Under a Duty to Consult the Beneficiaries
201(1)
9.11.3 Personal Occupation of Trust Land by Beneficiaries
202(2)
9.11.4 Investment (or Other Use] of `Capital Money' by Trustees of Land
204(2)
9.12 Exclusion and Restriction on Trustees of Land Powers of Disposition
206(5)
9.12.1 Depriving the Trustees of Powers of Disposition
206(1)
9.12.2 The Problem Posed by Restricting the Powers of the Trustees
206(1)
9.12.3 Dispositions Infringings8 (1) TOLATA 1996
207(1)
9.12.4 Are There Ways of Escaping from a Clause Removing the Powers of the Trustees?
208(1)
9.12.5 Consent Clauses
209(2)
9.13 Delegation of Trustees' Powers to Beneficiaries
211(9)
9.13.1 The Old Law Background
211(1)
9.13.2 Delegation by Trustees Under s9 TOLATA 1996
211(2)
9.13.3 The Revocation of a Section 9 Power of Attorney
213(1)
9.13.4 Liability if a Delegatee Beneficiary Proves to be Incompetent
213(2)
9.13.5 Total Delegation Almost like Settled Land
215(5)
Chapter 10 Co-Ownership of Land---The Basic Principles
220(45)
10.1 The Two Forms of Co-Ownership Existing Today
221(1)
10.2 Joint Tenancy
221(3)
10.2.1 Right of Survivorship (Ius Accrescendi)
222(1)
10.2.2 The `Four Unities'
223(1)
10.3 Tenancy in Common
224(3)
10.3.1 The Concept of Undivided Shares
224(1)
10.3.2 Unequal Tenancies in Common
225(1)
10.3.3 The Problems with Tenancies in Common in the Early Twentieth Century
225(2)
10.4 The Reform of Co-Ownership in 1925---The Main Objective
227(3)
10.4.1 Drastic Treatment for Tenancies in Common
227(1)
10.4.2 Why Impose Trusts on Tenants in Common?
228(1)
10.4.3 What If There Are More Than Four Tenants in Common to Start With?
229(1)
10.5 Joint Tenancies in the Early Twentieth Century
230(2)
10.5.1 Imposition of Trusts (for Sale) on Beneficial Joint Tenants
230(1)
10.5.2 Why Impose a Trust (for Sale) on Joint Tenants?
231(1)
10.6 The Current Conveyancing Practice to Create an Express Trust
232(3)
10.6.1 Declaration of Trusts Now Strongly Encouraged by Land Registry Rules
234(1)
10.7 No Express Declaration of a Trust---Joint Tenants or Tenants in Common?
235(2)
10.8 Resulting and Constructive Trusts: Introduction
237(5)
10.8.1 Resulting Trusts
237(1)
10.8.2 Constructive Trusts
238(4)
10.9 Joint Legal Owners of the Property
242(2)
10.10 Quantifying the Beneficial Interest Under a Constructive Trust
244(5)
10.10.1 Imputing or Inferring Intention
246(3)
10.11 Severance of Joint Tenancies---Introduction
249(1)
10.12 Severance of a Legal Joint Tenancy is Impossible
249(1)
10.13 Methods of Severance
250(15)
10.13.1 Severance by Written Notice
251(5)
10.13.2 `An Act of Any One of the Persons Interested Operating Upon His Own Share'
256(1)
10.13.3 Mutual Agreement
257(3)
10.13.4 Course of Dealings
260(1)
10.13.5 Matters Which Are Not a Severance
261(1)
10.13.6 `Severance by Will'
261(4)
Chapter 11 Co-Ownership---The Resolution of Disputes
265(30)
11.1 The Effect of Imposing a Trust Upon Co-Owners
266(1)
11.2 Tenancy in Common Arising Because There is an Implied Trust
266(8)
11.2.1 Dispositions by a Single Trustee
267(2)
11.2.2 What if Alex did Appoint a Second Trustee?
269(3)
11.2.3 Other Trusts of Land Where There is Only a Single Trustee
272(1)
11.2.4 Summary
273(1)
11.3 Sections 13 to 15 TOLATA 1996---Disputes Between Owners
274(13)
11.3.1 The Basic Pattern of ss13 to 15 TOLATA 1996
274(1)
11.3.2 Disputes Regarding Occupation of Trust Land---s13
274(3)
11.3.3 Courts Settling Disputes Regarding Trusts of Land---s14
277(1)
11.3.4 Factors to be Considered in Settling Disputes---s15
278(1)
11.3.5 Settling Disputes as to Whether the Trust Property Should be Sold
278(9)
11.4 The Modern Position of Husband and Wife Co-Owners on a Marriage Break-Up
287(2)
11.5 Rights of Co-Owners in Equity---Are They Interests in Land?
289(1)
11.6 Law of Property (Joint Tenants) Act 1964
289(1)
11.7 Co-Ownership of Registered Land
290(5)
Part 5 Acquisition of Interests in Land [ II]
295(46)
Chapter 12 Licences and Proprietary Estoppel
297(44)
12.1 Licences
298(1)
12.2 Bare Licences
299(1)
12.3 Licences Coupled with an Interest
299(1)
12.4 Contractual Licences
300(9)
12.4.1 Revocation of a Licence by the Licensor
302(2)
12.4.2 The Effect of Licences between the Licensee and a Third Party
304(5)
12.5 Estoppel Licences
309(1)
12.6 Proprietary Estoppel
309(20)
12.6.1 Gift
310(1)
12.6.2 Common Expectation
310(1)
12.6.3 Mistaken Belief
311(1)
12.6.4 A Less Restrictive Approach Towards Common Expectation Cases
311(3)
12.6.5 Modern Approach Towards Proprietary Estoppel
314(15)
12.7 Satisfying the Equity
329(6)
12.7.1 A Wide Interpretation of Satisfying the Equity
331(4)
12.8 Status of `An Equity' Before it Has Been Satisfied
335(6)
Part 6 Leases
341(122)
Chapter 13 Leases---The Basic Requirements
343(34)
13.1 The Essential Requirements for a Lease
345(1)
13.2 Duration of Leases
345(8)
13.2.1 Fixed Term Leases
345(3)
13.2.2 Periodic Tenancies
348(1)
13.2.3 Special Problems Connected with the Duration of Leases
349(4)
13.3 Some Concepts Related to the Law of Leases
353(1)
13.3.1 Tenancy at Sufferance
353(1)
13.3.2 Protected Tenancy
353(1)
13.3.3 Statutory Tenancy
353(1)
13.3.4 Secure Tenancies
353(1)
13.3.5 Assured Tenancies
354(1)
13.3.6 Assured Shorthold Tenancies
354(1)
13.4 The Distinction Between Leases and Licences
354(17)
13.4.1 Exclusive Possession as the Foundation of the Lease/Licence Distinction
355(4)
13.4.2 The Meaning of Exclusive Possession
359(3)
13.4.3 Retention of Keys by the Grantor
362(1)
13.4.4 Possessory Licences after Street v Mountford
363(1)
13.4.5 Acts of Generosity, Charity, or Friendship Where There is No Intent to Create Legal Relations
363(1)
13.4.6 Service Occupancies
364(1)
13.4.7 Occupancy by Virtue of an Office
365(1)
13.4.8 Occupancy Prior to the Completion of a Contract for Sale
365(1)
13.4.9 Flat-Sharing Agreements
365(4)
13.4.10 `Pretence' Clauses Designed to Negate Exclusive Possession
369(2)
13.5 Formalities for Leases
371(6)
13.5.1 Legal Leases by Express Grant
371(1)
13.5.2 Legal Leases by Operation of Law
372(1)
13.5.3 Equitable Leases
373(1)
13.5.4 Equitable Lease and Legal Periodic Tenancy Existing Concurrently
373(4)
Chapter 14 Obligations in Leases
377(41)
14.1 Implied Landlord's Covenants
378(15)
14.1.1 Quiet Enjoyment
378(1)
14.1.2 Non-Derogation from Grant
378(1)
14.1.3 Liability to Repair---General
379(2)
14.1.4 Implied Covenants---The Landlord and Tenant Act 1985
381(1)
14.1.5 Sections 8 to 10 Landlord and Tenant Act 1985
381(2)
14.1.6 Sections 11 to 14 Landlord and Tenant Act 1985
383(3)
14.1.7 The Crucial Principle in O'Brien v Robinson
386(2)
14.1.8 Landlord's Covenant to Repair Common Parts
388(1)
14.1.9 What does `Repair' Mean?
389(2)
14.1.10 The Repair/Reconstruction Distinction
391(1)
14.1.11 Uncomfortable Living Conditions
392(1)
14.2 Remedies for Breach of the Landlord's Covenants to Repair
393(4)
14.2.1 No Rent-Strikes, But...
393(1)
14.2.2 Specific Performance for Breach of a Repairing Obligation
394(1)
14.2.3 Appointing a Receiver
395(1)
14.2.4 Appointing a Receiver-Manager
396(1)
14.2.5 Local Authorities Taking Action against Private Landlords
396(1)
14.2.6 Measure of Damages Against Landlords
396(1)
14.3 Tenant's Covenants---Express and Implied
397(5)
14.3.1 Rent---Form and Payment of Rent
398(1)
14.3.2 Rent Reviews
398(4)
14.4 Covenants Against Assigning, Sub-Letting, and Parting with Possession
402(10)
14.4.1 Absolute Covenants
403(1)
14.4.2 Qualified Covenants
403(6)
14.4.3 Seeking the Landlord's Consent to a Proposed Transaction
409(2)
14.4.4 Section 19[ 1A] Landlord and Tenant Act 1927
411(1)
14.5 Remedies Against a Tenant in Breach of Repairing Obligations
412(6)
14.5.1 Damages
412(1)
14.5.2 Specific Performance---Enforcing the Tenant's Repairing Obligation
413(5)
Chapter 15 The Running of Covenants in a Lease
418(19)
15.1 Case Study---Kirby House
419(1)
15.2 Pre-1996 Leases---Liability of Original Parties after Assignment
420(7)
15.2.1 The Basic Principles of the Running of Covenants in Pre-1996 Leases
421(1)
15.2.2 Which Covenants Touch and Concern the Land?
422(1)
15.2.3 Solution to Kirby House Case Study
423(1)
15.2.4 Assignment of the Reversion to a Pre-1996 Lease
423(1)
15.2.5 Assignment of a Pre-1996 Lease
424(1)
15.2.6 Indemnities between Assignees of a Lease
424(1)
15.2.7 Position of Covenants which Do Not Touch and Concern
425(1)
15.2.8 Position of Options to Purchase the Reversion
426(1)
15.2.9 Position of Options to Renew the Lease
426(1)
15.3 The Landlord and Tenant [ Covenants) Act 1995
427(5)
15.3.1 All Covenants in a Lease Now `Touch and Concern the Land'
427(2)
15.3.2 Original Tenant's Liability Ceases on Assignment
429(1)
15.3.3 Authorized Guarantee Agreements
430(2)
15.3.4 Cessation of Original Landlord's Liability
432(1)
15.3.5 Notice to Tenant or Guarantor of Arrears
432(1)
15.4 Position of Equitable Leases
432(1)
15.4.1 Pre-1996 Equitable Leases
432(1)
15.4.2 Post-1995 Equitable Leases
432(1)
15.5 Position of Sub-Tenants and Head Landlords
433(4)
15.5.1 Forfeiture Clauses
433(1)
15.5.2 Restrictive Covenants in the Head Lease
434(3)
Chapter 16 Termination of Leases
437(26)
16.1 Ways in Which Leases May Terminate
438(3)
16.1.1 Natural Expiry
438(1)
16.1.2 Giving of Notice
438(1)
16.1.3 Merger
438(1)
16.1.4 Surrender
438(1)
16.1.5 Frustration
439(1)
16.1.6 Repudiatory Breach by the Landlord Accepted by the Tenant
440(1)
16.1.7 Forfeiture
440(1)
16.2 Forfeiture of Leases
441(3)
16.2.1 The Need for a Forfeiture Clause
441(1)
16.2.2 Modes of Forfeiture
441(1)
16.2.3 Forfeiture of a Lease of a Dwelling House
442(2)
16.3 Waiver of Forfeiture
444(2)
16.4 Relief from Forfeiture
446(13)
16.4.1 Relief from Forfeiture for Non-Payment of Rent
446(1)
16.4.2 Forfeiture for Breach of Covenant Other than Rent
447(1)
16.4.3 The Four Stages Required by s146 for Forfeiture by Court Proceedings
448(1)
16.4.4 The s146 Notice Must Be Drafted Correctly
449(2)
16.4.5 Remediable or Irremediable Breaches?
451(5)
16.4.6 Relief to Sub-Tenants
456(3)
16.5 Leasehold Property (Repairs) Act 1938
459(4)
Part 7 Informal Acquisition of Legal Estates
463(40)
Chapter 17 Adverse Possession and the Limitation Acts
465(38)
l7.1 Rationale of Adverse Possession
466(2)
171.1 Adverse Possession Human Rights Compliant
468(1)
17.2 Possession Gives a Right to Sue Trespassers
468(1)
17.3 The Limitation Act 1980
469(1)
17.4 Commencement of Adverse Possession
470(4)
17.4.1 Dispossession and Discontinuance
470(1)
17.4.2 The `Apparently Abandoned Plot' Problem
471(3)
17.5 Possession
474(5)
17.5.1 Factual Possession
474(2)
17.5.2 Intention to Possess [ Animus Possiderdi)
476(3)
17.6 Preventing the Acquisition of Title by Adverse Possession
479(1)
17.6.1 Time Starts Running Afresh by Acknowledgement of Title
479(1)
17.6.2 Acknowledgement of Title Made by Person in whose Favour Time has Already Run is of No Effect
480(1)
17.7 The Effect of Adverse Possession
480(23)
17.7.1 Unregistered Land
480(4)
17.7.2 Registered Land
484(19)
Part 8 Protection for the Purchaser of Registered Land
503(18)
Chapter 18 Rectification of the Register of Title
505(16)
18.1 Rectification of the Register (Other Than Adverse Possession)
506(2)
18.2 The Situations Where Rectification of the Register May Be Appropriate
508(8)
18.2.1 `Double Conveyancing'
509(1)
18.2.2 Other (Possibly Negligent) Mistakes
509(1)
18.2.3 Registration Obtained through Fraud and/or Forgery
510(1)
18.2.4 Rectification Against a Registered Proprietor in Possession
511(5)
18.3 Indemnity
516(5)
18.3.1 Indemnity for a Registered Proprietor Where Rectification is Granted
516(1)
18.3.2 Indemnity for a Person Who is Refused Rectification
517(4)
Part 9 Easements
521(76)
Chapter 19 The Essential Characteristics of Easements
523(22)
19.1 Preliminary Considerations
524(1)
19.2 Characteristics of an Easement: Re Ellenborough Park
525(1)
19.3 There Must Be a Dominant and a Servient Tenement
526(1)
19.4 The Easement Must Accommodate the Dominant Tenement
527(3)
19.5 The Easement Must Be Owned or Occupied by Different People
530(1)
19.6 Case Study---Apple Tree Farm
531(1)
19.7 `An Easement Must Be Capable of Forming the Subject Matter of a Grant'
531(11)
19.7.1 There Must Be a Capable Grantor and Capable Grantee
532(1)
19.7.2 An Easement Must Be Capable of Reasonably Exact Definition
532(1)
19.7.3 The Easement Ought to be Within the General Categories of Established Easements
533(2)
19.7.4 An Easement Must Not Involve Any Expenditure by the Servient Owner
535(1)
19.7.5 An Easement Must Not Be so Extensive as to Give the Dominant Owner Sole or Joint Possession of the Servient Land
536(6)
19.8 Access to Neighbouring Land Act 1992
542(3)
Chapter 20 Creation of Express and Implied Grant of Easements
545(14)
20.1 Creation of Easements [ and Profits)---Legal or Equitable?
545(1)
20.2 Express Grant of Easements (and Profits)
545(2)
20.3 Express Reservation of Easements [ and Profits]
547(2)
20.4 Implied Grant of Easements [ and Profits]
549(12)
20.4.1 Ways of Necessity
550(1)
20.4.2 Intended Easements
551(2)
20.4.3 The Rule in Wheeldon v Burrows
553(4)
20.4.4 Section 62 Law of Property Act 1925
557(4)
20.5 Implied Reservation of Easements
561(1)
20.5.1 Necessity
561(1)
20.5.2 Intended Easements
562(1)
20.6 Exclusion of the Rules Providing for Implied Grant and Reservation
562(1)
20.7 Compulsory Purchase and the Rules for Implied Grant
563(1)
20.8 Simultaneous Sales or Bequests
563(1)
20.9 Express or Implied Easements?---Legal or Equitable?---Overriding or Minor?
563
20.9.1 Unregistered Servient Land
564(1)
20.9.2 Registered Servient Land
564
Chapter 21 Prescription for Easements (and Profits)
559(38)
21.1 Rules Common to All Three Forms of Prescription
571(7)
21.1.1 User, to be Prescriptive, Must Be `As of Right'
571(4)
21.1.2 Presumed Acquiescence
575(1)
21.1.3 User Which is a Criminal Offence
575(1)
21.1.4 User Must Be Continuous
576(1)
21.1.5 User Must Be by or on Behalf of a Fee Simple Against a Fee Simple
576(2)
21.1.6 User Must Be Against a Servient Owner Capable of Granting an Easement
578(1)
21.2 Prescription at Common Law
578(1)
21.3 Prescription by Lost Modern Grant
579(2)
21.4 Prescription Under the Prescription Act 1832
581(9)
21.4.1 Shorter and Longer Periods Under the Act
582(1)
21.4.2 The `Next Before Action' and `Without Interruption' Rules
583(2)
21.4.3 Differences between Longer and Shorter Periods Under the Prescription Act 1832
585(3)
21.4.4 Prescription for Easements of Light
588(2)
21.5 Prescriptive Easements and Profits as Legal Interests
590(1)
21.6 Extinguishment of Easements
590(7)
21.6.1 Express Release
591(1)
21.6.2 Implied Release
591(2)
21.6.3 Extinguishment by Operation of Schedule 3 Paragraph 3 Land Registration Act 2002
593(4)
Part 10 Freehold Covenants: Restrictive and Positive Covenants
597(60)
Chapter 22 Freehold Covenants
599(43)
22.1 Case Study---Marchland Close
600(1)
22.2 Restrictive and Positive Covenants Distinguished
601(1)
22.3 Does the Burden or Benefit Run with the Land?
601(1)
22.4 Common Law: Does the Burden of a Covenant Run with the Land?
602(1)
22.5 Equity: Does the Burden of a Restrictive Covenant Run with the Land?
603(5)
22.5.1 The Covenant Must Be Negative in Substance
604(1)
22.5.2 The Covenant Must, at the Date of the Covenant, be Made to Benefit the Dominant Land Retained by the Covenantee
605(1)
22.5.3 The Covenant Must Touch and Concern the Dominant Land
605(1)
22.5.4 The Covenant Must Be Made with an Intent to Burden the Servient Land
606(2)
22.6 Does a Covenant Bind the Original Parties?
608(2)
22.6.1 The Benefit of Restrictive Covenants---Identifying the Original Covenantees
608(1)
22.6.2 Relaxing the Rules on Privity of Contract
609(1)
22.7 Does the Benefit of a Covenant Run with Land?
610(1)
22.8 Common Law: Does the Benefit of a Covenant Run with Land?
611(2)
22.8.1 Covenant must `Touch and Concern' the Land
611(1)
22.8.2 At the Date of the Covenant, the Original Covenantee Held a Legal Estate in Land
612(1)
22.8.3 The Successor in Title must Derive their Title From or Under the Original Covenantee
612(1)
22.8.4 At the Date of the Covenant, the Benefit Must Have Been Intended to Run with the Land
612(1)
22.9 Equity: Does the Benefit of a Covenant Run with the Land?
613(18)
22.9.1 Annexation
614(11)
22.9.2 Assignment of the Benefit of Restrictive Covenants
625(2)
22.9.3 Building Schemes or Schemes of Development
627(4)
22.10 Possible Ways of Making Positive Covenants Run
631(2)
22.11 Restrictive Covenants as Equitable Interests
633(1)
22.12 Remedies to Enforce a Breach of a Covenant
633(4)
22.13 The Chaotic State of the Law on the Running of Benefits of Covenants
637(5)
22.13.1 `Land Obligations'
638(4)
Chapter 23 Escaping from Restrictive Covenants
642(15)
23.1 Carry on Regardless
643(1)
23.2 `Doing a Parkside Homes'
644(1)
23.3 Attempt to Buy Out the Dominant Owners
644(1)
23.4 Is the Freehold Subject to a Restrictive Covenant? What is the Scope of the Restrictive Covenant? Who Can Enforce It?
644(2)
23.5 Modification or Discharge of a Covenant Under s84(1)
646(5)
23.5.1 The Grounds for Discharge or Modification of Restrictive Covenants
646(5)
23.6 Balancing Interests of the Parties---'Thin End of the Wedge'
651(6)
23.6.1 Case Study---The Firs
651(1)
23.6.2 Compensation for Dominant Owners
652(5)
Part 11 Mortgages
657(100)
Chapter 24 The Creation of Mortgages
659(21)
24.1 What is a Mortgage?
660(1)
24.2 Form of a Legal Mortgage of a Fee Simple before 1926
661(2)
24.2.1 Equitable Right to Redeem
662(1)
24.2.2 The Equity of Redemption
662(1)
24.2.3 Mortgagor Retaining Possession
663(1)
24.3 Legal Mortgages after 1925---Unregistered Land
663(3)
24.3.1 Mortgage by Long Lease (`Mortgage by Demise')
664(1)
24.3.2 Charge by Way of Legal Mortgage
664(2)
24.4 Legal Mortgages of Registered Land
666(1)
24.5 Types of Mortgages
667(3)
24.6 Mortgages of Leases
670(1)
24.6.1 Pre 1926
670(1)
24.6.2 Post 1925
670(1)
24.7 Equitable Mortgages of Legal Estates
671(9)
24.7.1 Equitable Mortgage by Deposit of Deeds---Unregistered Land
671(2)
24.7.2 Equitable Mortgage of a Registered Title by Deposit of the Land Certificate
673(2)
24.7.3 Comparison of Legal and Equitable Mortgages pre 1989
675(1)
24.7.4 Comparison of Legal and Equitable Mortgages after 1989
676(1)
24.7.5 Mortgages of Equitable Interests
676(1)
24.7.6 Protecting an Equitable Mortgage
676(4)
Chapter 25 The Remedies of Mortgagees
680(34)
25.1 Remedies of Legal Mortgagees---An Overview
681(1)
25.2 Action on a Mortgagor's Covenant to Repay
682(1)
25.3 Mortgagees Taking Possession
682(15)
25.3.1 Court Proceedings for Possession Brought by a Mortgagee
683(1)
25.3.2 Mortgagee Taking Possession of a Dwelling House
684(12)
25.3.3 Duty of Mortgagee in Possession to Account Strictly
696(1)
25.4 The Mortgagee's Statutory Power of Sale
697(10)
25.4.1 When Does the Statutory Power Arise?
697
25.4.2 When Does the Statutory Power become Exercisable?
598(100)
25.4.3 Protection for Purchasers in Good Faith from Mortgagees
698
25.4.4 Mortgagee's Duties on Selling the Property
599(106)
25.4.5 Can a Mortgagee Sell to Their `Friends'?
705(1)
25.4.6 Position of Purchasers and the Question of Price
705(1)
25.4.7 The Effect of Sale
705(1)
25.4.8 Destination of Proceeds of Sale
706(1)
25.5 Power to Appoint a Receiver
707(2)
25.5.1 Receiver Deemed to be the Mortgagor's Agent
709(1)
25.6 Foreclosure
709(1)
25.6.1 The Foreclosure Process
709(1)
25.6.2 Judicial Sale in Foreclosure Proceedings
710(1)
25.6.3 Foreclosure and Dwelling Houses
710(1)
25.7 Remedies of an Equitable Mortgagee or Chargee
710(4)
25.7.1 Taking Possession
710(1)
25.7.2 Sale and Appointing a Receiver
711(1)
25.7.3 Foreclosure
711(3)
Chapter 26 The Operation of Mortgages
714(29)
26.1 Rights of the Mortgagor
715(11)
26.1.1 The Rules of Equity Protecting the Equitable Right to Redeem
715(1)
26.1.2 No Irredeemable Mortgages
716(1)
26.1.3 Postponement of Redemption
717(3)
26.1.4 Collateral Advantages
720(4)
26.1.5 Restraint on Trade
724(1)
26.1.6 Statutory Regulation of Mortgages
725(1)
26.2 Leasing of the Mortgaged Property
726(2)
26.2.1 Leases Prior to the Mortgage
726(1)
26.2.2 Leases Subsequent to the Mortgage
726(1)
26.2.3 Unauthorized Leases
727(1)
26.3 Vitiating Factor---Undue Influence
728(9)
26.3.1 What is Undue Influence According to O'Brien?
728(4)
26.3.2 Undue Influence---Reconsidered
732(5)
26.4 Redemption of Mortgages
737(2)
26.4.1 When May Redemption Take Place?
738(1)
26.4.2 Who May Redeem?
738(1)
26.4.3 The Effect of Redemption
738(1)
26.4.4 Machinery of Redemption---Unregistered Land
738(1)
26.4.5 Machinery of Redemption---Registered Land
738(1)
26.4.6 Consolidation of Mortgages
739(1)
26.5 Fire Insurance of the Mortgaged Property
739(4)
Chapter 27 Priority of Mortgages
743(14)
27.1 Priority of Mortgages Where an Unregistered Legal Estate is Mortgaged
744(4)
27.1.1 Position of a Legal Mortgagee whose Mortgage is Not Registrable
745(1)
27.1.2 Position of an Equitable Mortgagee whose Mortgage is Not Registrable
745(1)
27.1.3 Mortgages Registrable as Land Charges
745(1)
27.1.4 Section 97 Law of Property Act 1925
746(2)
27.2 Tacking of Further Advances
748(2)
27.2.1 The Economic Significance of Tacking of Further Advances
748(1)
27.2.2 When Can a Further Advance be Tacked?
748(1)
27.2.3 Mortgage Containing an Obligation to Make Further Advances
749(1)
27.3 Case Study---Blackthorne House
750(1)
27.4 Priority of Mortgages in Registered Land
750(1)
27.5 Priorities of Mortgages by Registered Charge
750(7)
27.5.1 Tacking prior to the LRA 2002
751(1)
27.5.2 The Pre-1989 Equitable Mortgage by Deposit of the Land Certificate
752(1)
27.5.3 Post-1969 Equitable Mortgages of a Registered Title
752(1)
27.5.4 Equitable Mortgages after the Commencement of the Land Registration Act 2002
753(4)
Index 757
Roger Sexton is a former Senior Lecturer in Law at Nottingham Trent University where he specialised for many years in teaching Land Law.