Product Description

'Property Law' provides students with a trustworthy and rigorous treatment of all areas of land and real property law. 
 

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #152246 in Books
• Published on: 2008-08-15
• Original language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• 608 pages

Review

"Rogers Smith’s Property Law is a book renowned for its clear and penetrating approach to property law. The sixth edition introduces a number of new chapters including Human Rights and the Family Home, which ensure that it retains its position as the premier introductory book. It is highly readable and, importantly, is a joy to read. I highly recommend it".  
James GH Griffin, Lecturer, Exeter University

From the Back Cover

"Rogers Smith’s Property Law is a book renowned for its clear and penetrating approach to property law.  It is highly readable and, importantly, is a joy to read. I highly recommend it." 

James Griffin, University of Exeter.

The new sixth edition of this successful textbook continues to provide students with a trustworthy and in-depth account of all areas of land and real property law, and includes:

• Concepts of property law as they relate to the study of land providing a backdrop for a clear and accessible introduction to the topic
• References to academic material throughout the book making this an ideal text to use before embarking on further study

Smith’s modern approach to the subject has resulted in a number of changes to the new edition. New chapters can be found on emerging topics such as Commonhold and Human Rights, while other chapters have been restructured to enable an entire chapter to be devoted to acquiring interests in the family home.

Legal developments since the last edition:

• The decision of the European Court of Human Rights in the important adverse possession case of Pye v UK
• Further consideration of estoppel and remedies in the Court of Appeal in Cobbe v Yeoman’s Row
• The first House of Lords decision for over fifteen years on constructive trusts of the family home, Stack v Dowden
• A useful Law Commission report on the rights of cohabitants following relationship breakdown

Roger J. Smith teaches law at Magdalen College, University of Oxford. He is also the author of two of a companion volume on property law  Property Law: Cases and Materials, third edition and a shorter text on the subject, Introduction to Land Law both published by Longman.

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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.