Land Law Textbook

Roger Sexton is a Senior Lecturer in Law in the Department of Academic Legal Studies, Nottingham Trent University. He has taught Land Law for thirty-five years.

PART I UNDERLYING PRINCIPLES; 1. Introduction to the Types of Property Rights in Land; 2. Some Basic Concepts of Property Law; 3. Tenures (including Commonhold); 4. Estates; 5. Legal and Equitable Rights in Land; PART II UNREGISTERD LAND; 6. Differences in Validity between Legal Property Rights and Equitable Property Rights; 7. The Impact of the 1925 Legislation; 8. Status of Equitable Interests after 1925; PART III REGISTRATION OF TITLE; 9. Registration of Title - The Basic Principles; 10. Overriding Interests and Minor Interests; PART IV TRUSTS OF LAND; 11. Old-Style Trusts of Land; 12. New-Style Trusts of Land Defined; 13. The Powers of New-Style Trustees of Land; PART V CO-OWNERSHIP; 14. Co-ownership of Land - The Basic Concepts; 15. Severance of Joint Tenancies; 16. Co-ownership - The Problems when Co-owners Fall Out; PART VI LEASES; 17. Leases - The Basic Requirements; 18. Obligations in Leases; 19. The Running of Covenants in a Lease; 20. Termination of Leases; PART VII LOSS OF OWNERSHIP; 21. Adverse Possession and the Limitation Acts; 22. Rectification of the Register of Title; PART VIII EASEMENTS; 23. The Essential Characteristics of Easements; 24. Express and Implied Grant of Easements; 25. Prescription for Easements (and Profits); PART IX RESTRICTIVE COVENANTS; 26. Restrictive Covenants - The Basic Principles; 27. The Passing of the Benefit of Restrictive Covenants; 28. Escaping from Restrictive Covenants; PART X MORTGAGES; 29. The Creation of Mortgages; 30. The Remedies of Mortgagees; 31. Special Legal Rules Governing Mortgages; 32. Priority of Mortgages of Unregistered Titles; 33. Mortgages of Registered Land