Property law : cases and materials / / Roger Smith

• Autore: Smith Roger
• Pubblicazione: Harlow, England : , : Pearson, , 2015
• Edizione: Sixth edition.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (818 pages)
• Disciplina: 346.4204
• Soggetto topico: Property - England; Land tenure - Law and legislation - England
• Note generali: Includes index.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Cover -- Contents in detail -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Table of cases -- Table of statutes -- Table of statutory instruments -- Part I Introductory matters -- 1 Basic property principles -- 1. General principles -- 2. The new property -- 3. Trusts and equitable interests -- A. Equitable interests and equities -- 2 Human rights -- 1. The Convention rights -- 2. Enforcement of Convention rights -- 3. Convention rights in the Courts -- A. Human rights in the exercise of proprietary rights -- B. Horizontal effect following Pinnock -- C. The impact of human rights on property principles -- 3 Property interests -- 1. Land -- A. Tenures and estates -- B. Freehold estates -- C. Other interests -- D. The role of legislation and registration -- 2. Chattels -- Part II General principles: how property interests arise and purchasers -- 4 Original acquisition of property interests -- 1. Finding -- A. Things found on, in or under land -- B. Things found in chattels -- C. Treasure -- 2. Adverse possession -- A. Can adverse possession be justified today? -- B. Adverse possession against registered estates -- C. Requirements for adverse possession -- D. The effect of adverse possession -- 3. Fixtures -- A. General principles -- B. Removable fixtures -- C. Is a right to remove fixtures a property interest? -- 5 The transfer and creation of property interests -- 1. Deeds -- 2. Contracts for sales and dispositions of interests in land -- A. Writing requirements -- B. Enforcing agreements that do not comply with the 1989 Act -- 3. Land -- A. Transfer -- B. Creation of interests -- C. Electronic conveyancing -- 4. Chattels -- A. Transfer -- B. Creation of interests -- 5. Choses in action -- A. Transfer -- B. Creation of interests -- 6. Declarations of trust and equitable interests -- A. Declaration of trust -- B. Transfer of equitable interests -- 7. Wills. ; 8. Restrictions upon transfers -- 6 Formalities: rationale and trusts -- 1. The role of formality requirements -- 2. Resulting and constructive trusts -- A. Presumption of resulting trust -- B. Transfers for fraudulent purposes -- C. Constructive trusts: an oral promise by a transferee to hold on trust for the transferor -- D. Constructive trusts: an oral promise by a transferee to recognise the rights of a third party -- 7 Formalities: estoppel -- 1. When will an estoppel arise? -- A. Representation or assurance -- B. Reliance -- C. Detriment -- 2. The effect of the estoppel -- A. Use as a sword -- B. The remedy -- 3. The proprietary status of the estoppel -- A. The status of the estoppel before a remedy has been given -- B. The status of the estoppel after a remedy has been given -- C. Can the claimant transfer the benefit of an estoppel? -- 4. Other means of getting round formality requirements -- A. Mutual benefit and burden -- B. Donor doing all in his power -- C. Rules relating to death -- 8 The family home -- 1. Declaring the beneficial interests -- 2. Resulting or constructive trust -- 3. Inferring and imputing intentions -- 4. Transfer into joint names -- 5. Transfer into a single name -- A. Early developments: Pettitt and Gissing -- B. The development of common intention prior to Stack: inferring intentions -- C. The development of common intention prior to Stack: express common intentions -- D. Stack v Dowden -- E. The application of Stack v Dowden -- 6. Quantification of shares -- 7. Common intention after purchase -- improvements -- 8. Looking to the future -- 9. Constructive trusts and estoppels: the links -- 9 Purchasers: general principles and land charges -- 1. Rules for legal interests -- 2. Equitable interests and the doctrine of notice -- A. Purchase of legal estate -- B. Constructive notice: inspecting deeds. ; C. Constructive notice: inspecting the land -- D. Other considerations -- 3. Two competing equitable interests -- 4. Priority rules for equities -- 5. The time order -- 6. The land charges scheme -- A. What can be registered? -- B. Registering and searching -- C. The effect of registration and of failure to register -- D. Undiscoverable land charges -- 10 Purchasers: registration of title -- 1. The scheme and its objectives -- A. What the register looks like -- 2. Types of interests -- A. Registrable interests: first registration -- B. Registrable dispositions -- C. Minor interests -- D. Overriding interests -- 3. Alteration -- A. Terminology -- B. Grounds for alteration -- C. The proprietor in possession -- D. Subsequent dealings and the effect of rectification -- 4. Indemnity -- A. Rights to indemnity -- B. Restrictions on indemnity -- C. The significance of indemnity -- Part III Rights to enjoy land: estates and commonhold -- 11 Concurrent ownership: joint tenancy and tenancy in common -- 1. Joint tenancy and tenancy in common -- 2. Joint tenancy or tenancy in common? -- A. The four unities -- B. Words of severance -- C. Equitable presumptions of tenancy in common -- 3. Severance of the joint tenancy -- 4. Do we need both the joint tenancy and the tenancy in common? -- 12 Trusts of land -- 1. When is there a trust of land? -- A. Statutory definition -- B. Concurrent interests -- 2. Occupation -- A. Trusts of Land and Appointment of Trustees Act 1996 -- B. Spouses, civil partners, cohabitants and associated persons -- C. Rent and other financial adjustments -- 3. Management of the land -- A. Sale -- B. Partition and termination of trusteeship -- C. Delegation -- 4. Protecting purchasers: overreaching -- A. The need for two trustees -- B. Reform -- C. Protection against irregularities -- D. The effect and timing of overreaching -- 5. Trusts for sale. ; 13 Successive interests -- 1. The rule against perpetuities -- 2. The need for statutory regulation -- 3. The response of the 1925 legislation -- 4. The trust of land -- 5. Beneficiary control of management -- 14 Leases: requirements and types -- 1. Requirements of leases -- A. Certainty requirements: rent, commencement and length -- B. Exclusive possession -- 2. Types of leases -- A. Term of years absolute -- B. Periodic tenancies -- C. Tenancy at will -- D. Tenancy at sufferance -- E. Equitable leases -- F. Tenancies by estoppel -- G. Special cases -- 15 Leases: obligations and remedies -- 1. The operation of contract principles -- 2. The landlord's covenant for quiet enjoyment -- non-derogation from grant -- 3. Repairing obligations -- A. Obligations on tenants -- B. Obligations on landlords -- C. Enforcing repairing obligations -- D. Liability for personal injuries -- E. Reform -- 4. Forfeiture -- A. Protection for residential tenants -- B. Waiver -- C. Relief: non-payment of rent -- D. Relief: non-rent breaches -- E. Reform -- 5. Distress and commercial rent arrears recovery -- 16 Leases: parties and the running of covenants -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Assignment and subletting -- A. Assignment or sublease? -- B. Restrictions on assigning and subletting -- C. Concurrent leases -- 3. Enforcing covenants after assignment -- A. Privity of estate: general rules -- B. Which covenants run? -- C. Breaches committed after assignment -- D. Breaches committed before assignment -- E. Equitable leases and equitable assignments -- 4. Subleases -- 17 Commonhold -- 1. Becoming commonhold land -- 2. Commonhold association and commonhold community statement -- 3. Common parts -- 4. Units -- 5. The use of commonhold -- Part IV Other interests in land -- 18 Licences -- 1. Forms of licences -- A. Licences coupled with an interest -- B. Contractual licences. ; C. Constructive trusts -- D. Estoppel licences -- E. Contractual and estoppel licences: the links -- F. Other analyses -- 2. Creation and transfer of licences -- 3. The relationship constituted by the licence -- 19 Easements and profits -- 1. What can be an easement or a profit? -- A. Profits -- B. Easements -- 2. The creation and transfer of easements and profits -- A. Implied easements -- B. Prescription -- 3. The relationship constituted by easements and profits -- 4. Termination of easements and profits -- 20 Covenants -- 1. Positive covenants -- A. Running of the burden -- B. Running of the benefit -- 2. Restrictive covenants -- A. The limitation to restrictive covenants -- B. The requirement of a dominant tenement -- C. Touching and concerning the dominant tenement -- D. The running of the benefit -- 3. Enforcement of covenants -- 4. Reform -- 21 Mortgages -- 1. Forms of mortgage -- 2. Creation of mortgages -- 3. Vitiating factors -- 4. The relationship created by the mortgage -- A. Rules protecting the mortgagor -- B. Rights and remedies of the mortgagee -- Index.
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• Titolo autorizzato: Property law
• ISBN: 1-292-07852-9; 1-292-07854-5
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910154771303321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Longman law series.