Cheshire and Burn's Modern Law of Real Property

E. H. Burn, B.C.L., M.A.Barrister and Honorary Bencher of Lincoln's InnProfessor of Law in the City UniversityStudent and Tutor in Law, Christ Church, Oxford 1954 - 1990Emeritus Student of Christ Church, Oxford since 1990J. Cartwright, B.C.L., M.A.Student and Tutor in Law, Christ Church, Oxford since 1982Reader, University of Oxford since 2004 (Lecturer in Law 1982 - 2004)Solicitor

Review from previous edition The work maintains its winning formula: a conventional coverage, the use of straightforward language, and an incisive and direct mode of legal analysis

• PART I INTRODUCTION ; 1. An introduction to land law ; PART II THE MODERN LAW IN HISTORICAL CONTEXT ; 2. The common law system ; 3. Modification of the common law by equity ; 4. Settlements before 1926 ; 5. The simplification of the law: 1925, 1996 and 2002 ; PART III ESTATES AND INTERESTS IN LAND ; 6. The estate in fee simple absolute in possession ; 7. Commonhold ; 8. General characteristics and creation of leases ; 9. Covenants in leases ; 10. Termination of leases and recovery of possession by the landlord ; 11. Statutory codes for special leases ; 12. The strict settlement and the trust for sale before 1997 ; 13. The trust of land ; 14. Concurrent interests ; 15. Future interests: the rules against perpetuities and accumulations of income ; 16. Entailed interests and life interests ; 17. Determinable interests and interests upon condition subsequent ; 18. Easements and profits ; 19. Covenants ; 20. Rentcharges ; 21. Mortgages ; 22. Equities and proprietary estoppel ; 23. Licences ; PART IV THE CREATION, TRANSFER AND EXTINCTION OF ESTATES AND INTERESTS IN LAND ; 24. The contract ; 25. Formalities required for the creation and transfer of estates and interests in land ; 26. Capacity to acquire, hold and transfer estates and interests in land ; 27. Unregistered conveyancing ; 28. Registered conveyancing ; 29. Extinction of estates and interests in land