4. Protection of Legal and Equitable Property Rights in Unregistered Land

2019 ◽  
pp. 69-98
Author(s):  
Barbara Bogusz ◽  
Roger Sexton

Titles in the Complete series combine extracts from a wide range of primary materials with clear explanatory text to provide readers with a complete introductory resource. This chapter discusses the protection of legal and equitable rights in those titles that are still subject to the rules governing unregistered land, including the impact of the Law of Property Act 1925 on equitable interests. Regarding land which is unregistered title, the law divided the existing equitable interests into three groups: those registrable as land charges; those which are ‘overreachable’; and those which are neither registrable as land charges nor overreachable, and are therefore still subject to the doctrine of notice. It investigates the elements of the doctrine of notice and includes cases studies on legal and equitable property rights and constructive notice through failure to investigate. Finally, the position of successors in title to a purchaser without notice is considered.

Author(s):  
Barbara Bogusz ◽  
Roger Sexton

Titles in the Complete series combine extracts from a wide range of primary materials with clear explanatory text to provide readers with a complete introductory resource. This chapter discusses the protection of legal and equitable rights in those titles that are still subject to the rules governing unregistered land, including the impact of the Law of Property Act 1925 on equitable interests. Regarding land which is unregistered title, the law divided the existing equitable interests into three groups: those registrable as land charges; those which are ‘overreachable’; and those which are neither registrable as land charges nor overreachable, and are therefore still subject to the doctrine of notice. It investigates the elements of the doctrine of notice and includes cases studies on legal and equitable property rights and constructive notice through failure to investigate. Finally, the position of successors in title to a purchaser without notice is considered.


Author(s):  
Barbara Bogusz ◽  
Roger Sexton

Titles in the Complete series combine extracts from a wide range of primary materials with clear explanatory text to provide readers with a complete introductory resource. This chapter discusses the difference between restrictive and positive covenants; the rules which govern the running of the burden of covenants; the rules regulating who initially has the right to enforce a covenant; the significance of s56 of the Law of Property Act 1925, and the impact of the Contracts (Rights of Third Parties) Act 1999; the rules regarding assignment of restrictive covenants; the concept ‘building scheme’; and whether a positive or restrictive covenant will pass to successors in title.


2019 ◽  
pp. 613-658
Author(s):  
Barbara Bogusz ◽  
Roger Sexton

Titles in the Complete series combine extracts from a wide range of primary materials with clear explanatory text to provide readers with a complete introductory resource. This chapter discusses the difference between restrictive and positive covenants; the rules which govern the running of the burden of covenants; the rules regulating who initially has the right to enforce a covenant; the significance of s56 of the Law of Property Act 1925, and the impact of the Contracts (Rights of Third Parties) Act 1999; the rules regarding assignment of restrictive covenants; the concept ‘building scheme’; and whether a positive or restrictive covenant will pass to successors in title.


2019 ◽  
pp. 659-673
Author(s):  
Barbara Bogusz ◽  
Roger Sexton

Titles in the Complete series combine extracts from a wide range of primary materials with clear explanatory text to provide readers with a complete introductory resource. This chapter discusses the various options available to developers whose plans are obstructed by restrictive covenants. It covers ignoring restrictive covenants; attempting to buy out the dominant owners; identifying who can enforce a restrictive covenant; obtaining a definitive list of dominant owners; modification or discharge of a covenant under s84(1) of the Law of Property Act 1925; grounds for discharge or modification of restrictive covenants (obsolete, obstructs some reasonable user of the land, practical benefit and public interest); and balancing interests of the parties.


2019 ◽  
pp. 558-580
Author(s):  
Barbara Bogusz ◽  
Roger Sexton

Titles in the Complete series combine extracts from a wide range of primary materials with clear explanatory text to provide readers with a complete introductory resource. This chapter discusses the rules on the creation of an easement. Topics covered include express grant of easements (and profits); express reservation of easements (and profits); implied grant of easements (and profits), which includes ways of necessity, intended easements, the rule in Wheeldon v Burrows and s62 of the Law of Property Act 1925; implied reservation of easements covering necessity and intended easements; exclusion of the rules providing for implied grant and reservation; compulsory purchase and the rules for implied grant; and simultaneous sales or bequests.


2019 ◽  
pp. 341-377
Author(s):  
Barbara Bogusz ◽  
Roger Sexton

Titles in the Complete series combine extracts from a wide range of primary materials with clear explanatory text to provide readers with a complete introductory resource. This chapter discusses the basic principles of the law of leases. It covers the essential requirements for a lease; duration of leases and certainty of term; some concepts related to the law of leases; the distinction between leases and licences; how exclusive possession is defined; shared and multiple occupation cases; ‘sham’ tenancies and pretence clauses designed to negate exclusive possession; and formalities for the creation of leases.


Author(s):  
Elspeth Berry ◽  
Matthew J. Homewood ◽  
Barbara Bogusz

Titles in the Complete series combine extracts from a wide range of primary materials with clear explanatory text to provide readers with a complete introductory resource. This chapter examines the principle of sovereignty of EU law and how the judicial application of the sovereignty principle has advanced EU integration. The chapter specifically considers the impact of EU membership on the UK’s sovereignty and how the principle has been applied by the UK courts. The chapter also discusses EU competences and the attribution of powers to the EU; the application of the principle of subsidiarity; the sources of EU law; and EU legislative procedures.


Author(s):  
Richard Clements ◽  
Ademola Abass

Titles in the Complete series combine extracts from a wide range of primary materials with clear explanatory text to provide readers with a complete introductory resource. The chapter looks at the nature of fiduciary duty and how someone becomes a fiduciary. The liability of fiduciaries for breach of trust is considered. Bribery and secret profits are explained, the meaning, nature, and approaches to constructive trusts are studied, and the various circumstances in which constructive trust might emerge are discussed. These include remedial and institutional constructive trusts. The liability of third parties (strangers) in constructive trusts as trustees de son tort, dishonest assisters, and those in knowing receipt are considered. The meanings of ‘knowledge’ and ‘dishonesty’ in this area of the law are explained, as is the level of liability of constructive trustees.


Author(s):  
Richard Clements ◽  
Ademola Abass

Titles in the Complete series combine extracts from a wide range of primary materials with clear explanatory text to provide readers with a complete introductory resource. All trusts, except for charities, require beneficiaries to enforce the trust. This can be inconvenient, so there are exceptions. Unincorporated associations are a type of organization that does not exist in the eyes of the law. They have no legal personality, therefore they cannot hold property in their own name. This chapter discusses the possible legal structures for unincorporated associations; the dissolution of unincorporated associations; the beneficiary principle; trusts for monuments or graves; trusts for the maintenance of particular animals; and trusts for the saying of masses.


2019 ◽  
pp. 39-65
Author(s):  
Barbara Bogusz ◽  
Roger Sexton

Titles in the Complete series combine extracts from a wide range of primary materials with clear explanatory text to provide readers with a complete introductory resource. This chapter discusses the changes made by the 1925 legislation. It covers legal estate and interests prior to 1925; s1 Law of Property Act 1925; legal estates and interests existing after 1925; and equitable interests after 1925. The creation of legal and equitable property rights is discussed; also the creation and transfer of legal property rights; the creation of equitable interests in land by express trust; the creation of equitable interests by contract to convey or create a legal estate or interest; treating an informal grant of rights in land as a contract, thus creating an equitable interest in land; grant of an estate or interest by someone with only an equitable interest; and grants of interests which can exist only in equity.


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