LLB for Graduates Second Year Land Law
Land Law
The Land Law module is designed to deliver a thoughtful and critical account of the legal issues generated by English Property Law as it relates to Real Property. This may include an examination of the following aspects:
- fundamental concepts of Real Property such as Property and Land;
- the relationship between Law and Equity;
- tenure;
- estates and interests in land, and the importance of the property legislation of 1925;
- priority of title;
- the defects of the unregistered title to land system;
- registration of title to land, and the importance of the Land Registration Act 2002;
- freeholds;
- leaseholds;
- licences to use land;
- the trust of land and co-ownership;
- mortgages;
- freehold and leasehold covenants;
- adverse possession;
- proprietary estoppel;
- easements.