Land and real estate law / Real property law

While there are plenty of land law textbooks on the market, there is, in general, an absence of critical texts designed for law students to deepen their understanding of the subject.

This book investigates the origins, impact, and outcome of the Elizabethan obsession with fraudulent conveyancing, the part of debtor-creditor law that determines when a court can void a transfer of assets.

While Irish historical writing has long been in thrall to the perceived sectarian character of the legal system, this collection is the first to concentrate attention on the actual relationship that existed between the Irish population and the state under which they lived from the War of the Two Kings (1689-1691) to the Great Famine (1845-1849).

Walter Ullmann's contribution to the study of medieval political and legal thought needs no emphasis.

This handbook brings together diverse perspectives, major topics, and multiple approaches to one of the biggest legal institutions in society: property.

A helpful and practical tool for leaders of residential cooperatives in Florida.

Das schwedische Sachenrecht verfolgt mit seiner Aufteilung in dynamisches und statisches Sachenrecht eine dem deutschen Recht unbekannte Strukturierung.

This book deals with the historic transition to democracy in South Africa and its impact upon crime and punishment.

Onshore unconventional gas operations, in most jurisdictions, operate on the legal principle that all activities during exploration and extraction are 'temporary' in nature.

Social Movements, Law and the Politics of Land Reform investigates how rural social movements are struggling for land reform against the background of ambitious but unfulfilled constitutional promises evident in much of the developing world.

As one of the 'learned' professions requiring advanced learning and high principles, law enjoys a special standing in society.

Disability offers a new lens through which to view the effectiveness of access to justice, and the inclusiveness of the justice system as a whole.

Struggles over land and water have determined much of New Mexico's long history.

Written with both legal students and practitioners in mind, this highly specialist book is widely recognised as the definitive guide to Irish land law.

Towns are complicated places.

Comparative analysis of vindicatio, possessory remedies and trespass across sixteen European jurisdictions based on twelve straightforward factual cases.

Eye-opening, practical, thoughtful and revolutionary Danny Dorling, author ofPeak InjusticeA birds-eye view of tenant organising that touches down in moving stories of everyday struggle Tracy Rosenthal, co-author ofAbolish RentA brilliant and inspiring analysis of the causes and possible solutions to one of the central issues facing people around the world today: the problem of housing Jeremy Gilbert, author ofTwenty-First Century SocialismAs housing crises proliferate around the world, so does the fightback.

Land and Conveyancing Law Reform Acts: Annotations and Commentary remains the indispensable guide to the key legislation governing Irish property law, written by the leading authority in this area of law, JCW Wylie.

This second edition of Construction Law: From Beginner to Practitioner provides a thorough and comprehensive guide to construction law by blending together black letter law and socio-legal approaches.

This book is an interdisciplinary study of struggles for indigenous self-determination and the recognition of indigenous' territorial rights in Latin America.

How did the penitentiary get its name?

British discourse during the Mandate, with its unremitting convergence on the problematic 'native question', and which rested on racial and cultural theories and presumptions, as well as on certain givens drawn from the British class system, has been taken for granted by historians.

Law schools are failing both their staff and students by requiring them to prize reason and rationality and to suppress or ignore emotions.

Both theoretically informed and empirically rich, Defensible Space makes an important conceptual contribution to policy mobilities thinking, to policy and practice, and also to practitioners handling of complex spatial concepts.

With cities increasingly following rigid rules for designing out crime and producing spaces under surveillance, this book asks how information shapes bodies, space, and, ultimately, policymaking.

Aspects of Housing Law provides a comprehensive, up-to-date and readable account of what is often regarded as a complex and technical area of the law.

The recent rapid rise in land and housing prices in Canadian cities has generated much public concern.

A radical new analysis of fundamental property principles which enables students to make sense of an exciting and fast-developing subject.

Crises are never the best of times and the era of the Great Western Schism (1378-1417) easily qualifies as one of the worst of times.

Towns are complicated places.

This volume focuses on how, in Europe, the debate on the commons is discussed in regard to historical and contemporary dimensions, critically referencing the work of Elinor Ostrom.

The grazing of animals on common land and associated property rights were the original basis of the concept of "e;the tragedy of the commons"e;.

The question these articles seek to respond to, in this fifth collection by Jean Gaudemet to be published by Variorum, is how the intellectual elite of the medieval Church perceived the institutions among which they lived - how they portrayed them, and how they sought to influence them.

The Property Rights of Refugees and Internally Displaced Persons: Beyond Restitution pursues a rigorous examination of the various ways in which the protection of housing and property rights can contribute to durable solutions to displacement.

This fourth edition comprehensively deals with all aspects of landlord and tenant law, both commercial and residential.

Routledge Q&As give you the tools to practice and refine your exam technique, showing you how to apply your knowledge to maximum effect in an exam situation.

Both the Victorian age and the late twentieth century are often characterised by contemporaries as times of apparent economic affluence and stability.

Originally published in 1957, this book introduces the term 'estate capital' to distinguish investment in land and buildings, in which agriculture rests, from investment in agricultural machinery and other forms of capital which are essentially agricultural.

Arguing that the female criminal subject was central to the rise of the British novel, Kirsten T.