Land Law Essays

Mirror Principle and the Land Act
Example essay. Last modified: 24th Sep 2021
Introduction: A sound system of land registration is underpinned by three principles: the insurance principle, the curtain principle, and the mirror principle....

Private Nuisance
Example essay. Last modified: 21st Sep 2021
Introduction: Private nuisance is an ancient wrong designed as an action between neighbouring landowners to protect a persons interest in land from being adversely effected by the activities of his neighbour....

Scottish Land Ownership Laws Post-devolution
Example essay. Last modified: 31st Aug 2021
Introduction: Traditionally, Scotland operated a feudal system of land tenure in much the same way as England and Wales; however, following the devolution of Scotland in 1999 and the ability for the country to make its own laws, the position in relation to property ownership in Scotland has become somewhat removed from the position in England and Wales....

Joint Tenancy and Tenancy-in-Common
Example essay. Last modified: 3rd Dec 2020
Introduction: Joint tenancy and tenancy-in-common are examples of concurrent estates which are held by more than one owner. Therefore, both are instances where property is owned by more than one owner....

Issue of Overreaching and Overriding Interests in Modern Land Law
Example essay. Last modified: 3rd Nov 2020
Introduction: In the registered land system, overreaching and overriding interests represent opposing trends in modern land law. While overreaching operates to benefit purchasers and mortgagees, they can be unfairly disadvantaged by the overriding interests of those in actual occupation of the land...

Impact of Land Registration Act 2002 on Law of Adverse Possession in England
Example essay. Last modified: 29th Oct 2020
Introduction: Citing relevant cases, explain to what extent you agree that the Land Registration Act 2002 has revolutionised the law of adverse possession in England....

Hindus Have Been Dedicating Property for Religious and Charitable Purposes
Example essay. Last modified: 19th Aug 2019
Introduction: From the earliest times Hindus have been dedicating property for religious and charitable purposes. This has been mainly under two heads......

Non-natural Use of Land
Example essay. Last modified: 16th Aug 2019
Introduction: The man in the street might legitimately expect the Common law to have developed a means by which persons who suffer personal injury or damage to their property due to the release of dangerous substances...

Possession is Nine-Tenths of Law
Example essay. Last modified: 16th Aug 2019
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Adverse Possession Makes it De Facto
Example essay. Last modified: 16th Aug 2019
Introduction: It is the policy of the Limitation Acts that those who go sleep upon their claims should not be assisted by the courts in recovering their property...

Property Possession Restitution
Example essay. Last modified: 16th Aug 2019
Introduction: Property Possession Restitution. The law of restitution means the return of property to the owner or person entitled to possession. If one person has been unjustifiably received either property or money from another, he has an obligation to restore it to the rightful owner in order that he should not be unjustly enriched....

HM Land Registry England
Example essay. Last modified: 16th Aug 2019
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The Power of Sale: Mortgage Law and Lending
Example essay. Last modified: 7th Aug 2019
Introduction: A mortgagee cannot seek foreclosure before the contractual date or obligation has passed and the process requires a court order....

Acquiring an Easement by Prescription
Example essay. Last modified: 7th Aug 2019
Introduction: The essential characteristics of an easement have been long established and bound and enshrined in the workings of the modern day Land Law system....

Land Registration Act
Example essay. Last modified: 7th Aug 2019
Introduction: The agreement between Sylvia and her brother was an oral agreement and no formal conveyance of title took place, which would have triggered a registration at the Land Registry....

National Juridical Sciences Property Law
Example essay. Last modified: 7th Aug 2019
Introduction: In India, prior to 1862, there was no application of law of limitation. ‘The English law of limitation, as per 21 James I C and 4 Anne c 16(1)...

Possible Scenario When Selling Land
Example essay. Last modified: 6th Aug 2019
Introduction: The best possible scenario when selling land is for the sale contract to refer to a list of items as being included or excluded. In residential transactions, the seller usually completes a fittings and contents form and a specimen form TA10 can be found on the Law Society website....

The Most Expensive Purchase, a Mortgage
Example essay. Last modified: 6th Aug 2019
Introduction: By the nature of the mortgage, terms of repayment of the debts are incorporated in the document. It may also contain certain rights, but invariably......

Right to Exclusive Possession
Example essay. Last modified: 23rd Jul 2019
Introduction: In the 1980s Charlotte leased the strip of land adjacent to her beach hut from Brightsea Council. This meant that she was given permission to enter......

Is the Power of Land Administrator Absolute?
Example essay. Last modified: 23rd Jul 2019
Introduction: As what had been stated under Section 390 (3) of the National Land Code 1965, it is stated that the Land Administrator is the one that has the ......

Land Building Law
Example essay. Last modified: 23rd Jul 2019
Introduction: Land Building Law. Does Common Law allow the benefit of a covenant to be passed to a purchaser of land ? Can either the burden or benefit of a covenant be passed in equity and, if so, give details of how this might happen....

Shell Was Able to Recover Damages for the Damaged Property
Example essay. Last modified: 23rd Jul 2019
Introduction: At or about 6 am on Sunday the 11th of December 2005 a number of explosions occurred at the Buncefield Oil Storage Depot based in Hertfordshire......

Property Land Seller
Example essay. Last modified: 23rd Jul 2019
Introduction: Property Land Seller. Disputes of title for immovable property arise comparatively rarely due to the static nature of land as well as the land title being recorded in documentary form....

South Buckinghamshire DC v. Porter: Planning Law
Example essay. Last modified: 23rd Jul 2019
Introduction: South Bucks caused a stir within legal writing seems because of its external result rather than the internal legal argumentation that informed the result....

A Comparison of Australian and French Intestacy Law
Example essay. Last modified: 22nd Jul 2019
Introduction: I Introduction This essay will examine the rights of the surviving spouse in intestate succession in the French Civil Law system and the Australian......