A New Land Law

This new text is designed to provide a balanced approach to the exposition of land law,as it stands after the enactment of the Trusts of Land and Appointment of Trustees Act 1996 and Land Registration Act of 1997, but it is also an attempt to show how land law should look in years to come. No text yet published treats land law as an integrated whole. Yet the traditional division between registered and unregistered land ceases to be tenable when all land has to be registered after any dealing. As the opening passage of the book shows, the consequence of this is that unregistered land is, like the red squirrel, threatened with extinction. This text goes further than any previous work towards looking at how the two systems are designed to dovetail together.Any new approach necessarily creates some rents in the traditional ordering and terminology of a subject, but a deliberate attempt has been made to limit the restructuring so that traditionalists will still feel comfortable with what emerges. By dovetailing discussion of registered and unregistered land more effectively than any previous text, the book's author presents a new map of land law which will enable students to understand the realities of land law, without abandoning many of the concepts and structures with which teachers and practitioners will already be familiar.