Table of contents
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