Cheshire and Burn's Modern Law of Real Property

PART I; Introduction to the Modern Law; 1. The pattern of development; 2. The common law system; 3. Modification of the common law by equity; 4. Settlements; 5. The simplification of the law in 1925 and 1996; 6. Contract before conveyance; 7. The definition of land; PART II; Estates and Interests in Land; A; The Estate in Fee Simple Absolute in Possession; 8. The estate in fee simple absolute in possession; B; Interests arising under a strict settlement or trust of land; 9. The strict settlement and the trust for sale before 1997; 10. The trust of land; 11. Concurrent interests; 12. Entailed interests; 13. Life interests; 14. Future interests; 15. Determinable interests; 16. Interests upon condition subsequent; C; Commercial Interests; I; Interests conferring a right to the land itself; 17. Leasehold interests; II; Interests conferring a right enforceable against the land of another; 18. Easements and profits; 19. Licences; 20. Restrictive covenants; 21. Rentcharges; 22. Mortgages; PART III; The Transfer and Extinction of Estates and Interests; A; Transfer inter vivos by estate owners; 23. Beneficial owners. The sale of land; 24. Other estate owners; B; Transfer on death; 25. Testacy; 26. Intestacy; C; Extinction of estates and interests; 27. Extinction under the Limitation Act 1980; 28. Merger; D; Incapacities and disabilities with regard to the holding and transfer of estates and interests; 29. Incapacities and disabilities; PART IV; Planning Law; 30. Planning control; 31. Compulsory purchase and compensation; Index