LLB for Graduates Second Year Land Law

Land Law

The Land Law module is designed to deliver a thoughtful and critical account of the legal issues generated by English Property Law as it relates to Real Property. This may include an examination of the following aspects:

• fundamental concepts of Real Property such as Property and Land;
• the relationship between Law and Equity;
• tenure;
• estates and interests in land, and the importance of the property legislation of 1925;
• priority of title;
• the defects of the unregistered title to land system;
• registration of title to land, and the importance of the Land Registration Act 2002;
• freeholds;
• leaseholds;
• licences to use land;
• the trust of land and co-ownership;
• mortgages;
• freehold and leasehold covenants;
• adverse possession;
• proprietary estoppel;
• easements.