Table of Contents

Part 1. FUNDAMENTAL CONCEPTS
1.1: Introduction
1.2: Land
1.3: Estates and tenures
1.4: Law and equity
1.5: Property
1.6: Human rights
1.7: The organisation of proprietary interests in land
Part 2. POSSESSION AND TITLE
2.1: Possession
2.2: Title
Part 3. FREEHOLD OWNERSHIP
3.1: The fee simple estate
3.2: Freehold ownership of commonhold land
3.3: Enforcement of freehold covenants at law
3.4: Enforcement of freehold covenants in equity
Part 4. LEASEHOLD OWNERSHIP
4.1: Definitions and characteristics
4.2: Creation, disposition and termination of leases
4.3: Leasehold obligations
4.4: Landlord's remedies for tenant default
4.5: Enforeability of leasehold covenants
4.6: Enfranchisement and the right to buy
4.7: Statutory regimes of landlord and tenant law
Part 5. EASEMENTS AND PROFITS A PRENDRE
5.1: Definitions and characteristics
5.2: Creation and termination
5.3: Effect on third parties
Part 6. SECURITY INTERESTS IN LAND
6.1: Mortgages and charges
6.2: Protection for the mortgagor
6.3: Protection for the mortgagee
6.4: Remedies of the mortgagee
6.5: Priority of mortgages
6.6: Rentcharges and rights of entry
Part 7. BENEFICIAL OWNERSHIP
7.1: Trusts
7.2: Resulting trusts
7.3: Constructive trusts
7.4: Co-ownership
7.5: Trusts of land
7.6: Successive interests
Part 8. DEALINGS AND THEIR EFFECT
8.1: Contract and transfer
8.2: Dealings with registered estates
8.3: Dealings with unregistered estates
Part 9. OTHER MODES OF ACQUISITION
9.1: Adverse possession
9.2: Proprietary estoppel
9.3: Succession and donatio mortis causa
Part 10. PRIVACY, ACCESS AND EXCLUSION
10.1: Trespass and privacy
10.2: Bare licences
10.3: Contractual licences
10.4: Licences coupled with an equity or a grant
10.5: Impact of licences on third parties
10.6: Limits of autonomous control over access
10.7: Civic rights of access to land
Part 11. PUBLIC REGULATION OF LAND
11.1: Control of land use
11.2: Takings of land

About the Author

Kevin Gray is Dean of Trinity College, Cambridge and a Professor of Law in the University of Cambridge. Susan Francis Gray is a Solicitor of the Senior Courts, and a former Assistant Land Registrar at HM Land Registry.

Reviews

`Review from previous edition A genuinely outstanding piece of work: enormously full and erudite but a really stimulating read, with original and critical scholarship.'
Nick Jackson, Senior Lecturer, Kent Law School
`Elements of Land Law is a splendid text with a number of desirable features, not least its footnotes and wealth of research material.'
Dr. Paul Omar, Senior lecturer, Sussex Law School, Brighton
`This is an outstanding textbook.'
Stephen Davies, Surrey University
`Elements of Land Law is comprehensive and provocative, with a very high level of supporting detail.'
Ben McFarlane, University Lecturer in Property Law & Trusts, Oxford University.