Land Law

This book provides an introduction to the key elements of land law. Written by a leading academic in the field, it covers the core areas of modern land law giving readers an authoritative and comprehensive overview of the whole subject.

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Providing an introduction to land law, this book looks at the way in which the law regulates our relationship with the land on which we walk, work, and live. Land law is about the connections between people and land, and also the relationships between people, jostling for space and allocating resources. As people change, so do the ways they use and think about land, and land law today looks very different from how it did fifty years ago, and in another generation's time it will have changed again. Elizabeth Cooke introduces the building blocks of land law, namely property rights in land, and explains how they have evolved by a mixture of design and accident. The book examines ownership rights, non-ownership rights, both legal and equitable, and provides analysis of how these different rights can apply to a single piece of land, and how they are managed and enforced. Throughout the book, the role of registration is central, following the Land Registration Act 2002, and the implications of this Act for English land law are fully explored.