Product Description

This is the fourth edition of one of the leading property law textbooks in the UK. The book has been thoroughly updated to take into account the major reforms introduced by the Land Registration Act 2002 and the Commonhold and Leasehold Reform Act 2002. The book is up to date with all the relevant new case law, including Royal Bank of Scotland v Etridge (No 2) on undue influence in mortgages, Jennings v Rice on estoppel remedies and Mortgage Corpn v Shaire on trusts of land, as well as legislative changes. It includes consideration of the impact of the Human Rights Act 1998 on property law.

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Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #814035 in Books
• Published on: 2002-09-06
• Original language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• 688 pages

Review

"Both the structure of the book and its length have remained remarkably stable across editions. This is a consistency that irresistibly suggests a structural strength and a remarkable discipline in jettisoning material that is no longer central to the book's concern"

"The book is meticulous in its treatment of the subjects it covers in detail"                   

"Roger Smith has been one of the more impressive commentators on land law, especially the law of registered land, for many years.  His willingness to pose searching questions remains, and is evidenced on many occasions in this book"                        

"The book is a stimulating, up-to-date, scholarly, and clearly written text that repays the attention it demands of the readers"     

Nottingham Law Journal, Vol 12(2), 2003                                

                

From the Back Cover
Longman Law Series

Editorial Advisory Board

Professor I.H. Dennis (University College, London)
Professor R.W. Rideout (University College, London)
Professor J.A. Usher (University Of Edinburgh)


This is the fourth edition of one of the leading property law textbooks in the UK. The book has been thoroughly updated to take into account the major reforms introduced by the Land Registration Act 2002 and the Commonhold and Leasehold Reform Act 2002. The book is up to date with all the relevant new case law (including Royal Bank of Scotland v Etridge (No 2) on undue influence in mortgages, Jennings v Rice on estoppel remedies and Mortgage Corpn v Shaire on trusts of land) and legislative changes. It includes consideration of the impact of the Human Rights Act 1998 on property law.

• Includes concepts of property relevant to the study of land law - a unique feature of this text, useful for courses which have a property lead-in to land law -  and provides a conceptual underpinning to the study of land law.

• Generally updated with new case law and legislation.
• Mainstream scholarly treatment of appropriate length and depth for modern courses in land law and property law.

Land law topics are widely covered, but with an emphasis on issues central to most courses on this subject. The book goes well beyond a description of the rules, however, seeking rather to get to the heart of the analyses used by the courts and to provide an understanding of their effect within a mature and complex area of law. There is a full discussion of key cases and the ways in which they articulate the fundamental principles of property law, enabling students to obtain a firm grasp of the subject and to apply these principles to particular problems and examples.
  Property Law can be used by itself or together with the author's Property Law: Cases and Materials.

Roger J. Smith is Fellow and Tutor of Magdalen College, Oxford. He has written widely on land law in legal periodicals and has had extensive experience in teaching the subject.

By the same author

Property Law: Cases and Materials, 2nd edition
ISBN 0 582 47338 1

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Customer Reviews

Good for detail, bad for the basics.
We use this at Oxford for the Land Law course. It is utter pants if you're just starting out and want to know what the hell is going on, but once you have a grasp of the basics, it is good for further reflection and nitty-gritty analysis.

fantastic
this book is thoroughly readable and enjoyable. as this part of a law course is usually for first time legal students the book written in a way not to confuse you and keep you interested in the ways of the legal system. informative, and thorough this was the only text book I used in the first year for my property module.

Too difficult to read
As the one-line summary says, this book is really too difficult to read, especially for non-law students. However, it includes basically anything concerning property law, not only land law. For example, it includes something on finding ad possession cases etc. I suppose it would be more suitable for a post-graduate students rather than under-graduate students. Also, the depth of the information should be adjusted, it is not necessary for undergraduate students to look and know some difficult and too academic topics. One has to remember that students who read the book usually are going to sit for a property law exam, somehow some materials inside are not necessary and some are non-necesssary complicated.