Product Description

This text is designed to provide a balanced approach to the exposition of land law as it stands after the enactment of the Trusts of Land and Appointment of Trustees Act 1996 and Land Registration Act of 1997, but it is also an attempt to see how land law might look in years to come. The traditional division between registered and unregistered land ceases to be tenable when all land has to be registered after any dealing. As the opening passage of this book shows, the consequence of this is that unregistered land is, like the red squirrel, threatened with extinction. The work looks at how the two systems are designed to dovetail together. Any new approach creates some rents in the traditional ordering and terminology of a subject, but a deliberate attempt has been made to limit the restructuring so that traditionalists will still feel comfortable with what emerges. By dovetailing discussion of registered and unregistered land, the author presents a map of land law which offers to enable students to understand the realities of the subject without abandoning many of the concepts and structures with which teachers and practitioners will already be familiar.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #1248341 in Books
• Published on: 1999-05-30
• Original language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• 742 pages

Customer Reviews

Boring subject, but this should ease the pain...
Some will be deterred by the sheer size of this book. In length, it's comparable with other standard Land Law texts such as Kevin & Susan Gray's tome, and certainly much more detailed than introductory texts like Cursley & Green's Land Law (Palgrave Law Masters). The second edition is repackaged and updated, with references in the text being to paragraph rather than page numbers.

Having studied under the great man, it is apparent that Professor Sparkes brings a levity to what is traditionally a dull and turgid subject - compulsory for all undergraduate Law degrees in England and Wales. From his comments about red squirrels to his apposite use of diagrams to demonstrate the structure of trusts, overall Sparkes has written a brilliant book on Land Law - and that probably takes some doing. If students take the time to read the relevant parts, they will easily find it a useful tool in their first year studies.

Too difficult for first year law students
This book contains all the major points and principles of most land/property law courses. However for the first year student who is foreign to this subject, it is very easy to get lost and ultimately disheartened. If you have the time to spend on a complex heavy book such as this then go for it, but if you are trying to get the tutorial work done in a reasonable time so you can go down the pub with your mates, and all you want is an answer to the question in plain english then this is not the book for you...!

don't buy!
I had to buy this book for 1st year property law and it wasn't useful at all. Over-complicated, bad format and strange diagrams that don't help. Buy April Stroud's book instead-a bit simple, but does the job!