Product Description

Peter Sparkes' text on land law has been rewritten almost sentence by sentence partly to incorporate the seismic changes introduced by the Land Registration Act 2002, along with commonholds, the explosion of human rights jurisprudence, and the unremitting advance of judicial exposition. Partly also, to accommodate the author's developing thinking on the structural aspects of the subject, jolted by the new clearer structure for land registration with its much greater clarity of function behind the means of protecting third party interests.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #514042 in Books
• Published on: 2003-08-05
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 852 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!