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Land Law Directions provides a lively introduction to land law and makes this traditionally daunting subject both clear and engaging. All the key topics covered on a typical land law module are clearly explained and augmented with helpful learning features, including diagrams and illustrations.
Land Law is written in an informal and lively manner with an emphasis on explaining the key topics covered on land law courses with clarity. This color text is packed with features, diagrams, and photographs for a truly contemporary and student-centered approach. The range of features such as thinking points, example boxes, chapter summaries and end of chapter questions are designed to engage and reinforce knowledge. Photographs provide immediate and tangible illustration of concepts, rooting the discussion of topics in the context of the real world. The final chapter 'Completing the Puzzle' fosters an integrated understanding of land law by tying all topics together and demonstrating how concepts apply in practice. The book is fully up to date and includes recent legislation and cases such as Stack v Dowden 2007 Online Resource Center: -The book is accompanied by an innovative online resource centre offering several resources to support teaching and learning. Lecturers can track student progress using an online bank of 150 multiple choice questions offering immediate answers and feedback that can be customized and loaded on to the university's VLE. -More advanced material and weblinks allow students to take their learning further and increase the depth and breadth of their knowledge. -Updates ensure students are up to date with the latest cases and developments in land law. -Diagrams and photographs are available to download and use in lectures.
A considered balance of depth, detail, context, and critique, Land Law Directions books offer the most student-friendly guide to the subject; empowering students to evaluate the law, understand its practical application, and approach assessments with confidence.
This text is a lively introduction to land law, making this traditionally daunting subject both clear and engaging. All the key topics covered on an undergraduate course are explained with the use of helpful learning features, diagrams and photographs for a truly contemporary and student-centred approach.
With a modern, student-friendly writing style, Land Law Directions excels in providing engaging and straightforward explanations of even the most difficult concepts. Case summaries, photographs, and examples are used throughout to provide real-life context and clarify abstract ideas, while diagrams and definitions ensure the text is easy to follow and that key points are understood. With extensive experience teaching undergraduates, the authors provide a full range of resources designed to help build upon and further your understanding, including thinking points, end of chapter questions and tips on linking topics together. A final chapter pulls together key details from each chapter, showing how topics link together and apply to a fictional piece of land. An additional separate chapter focuses on preparing for exams, offering advice on approaching assessment questions andrevision technique. Land Law Directions innovative features, easy-to-read style and practical advice make this the ideal all-round textbook to prepare you for success in both exams and the workplace.This book is also accompanied by an extensive Online Resource Centre (www.oxfordtextbooks.co.uk/orc/clarke directions3e/) which includes the following features: - additional topics for further study- revision podcasts- multiple choice questions- interactive glossary of key land law terminology- suggested approaches to the end of chapter questions in the text- updates to the law- useful weblink
Academically rigorous yet welcoming and fully attuned to the needs of the student reader, Chris Bevan's Land Law represents a new breed of textbook, blending traditional and contemporary teaching approaches to guide its readers to a confident understanding of the subject. With its lively, engaging writing style - in which the author's enthusiasm is always apparent - and distinctive way of speaking directly to students, anticipating their questions and areas of confusion, Bevan's book does not simply set out the law but actively teaches it. Clear explanations are complemented by frequent, carefully-crafted visual aids, conveying key concepts in ways that all students can understand, and topics are broken down into sections that are easy to digest and navigate. This book maintains a critical emphasis and encourages students to consider and understand the law in context (both within society and their degree), not just in the abstract. 'Key case' boxes offer concise insights on leading cases that pique students' interest, spurring them to conduct their own reading of primary material, and although the book reflects on historical background in order to make sense of today's law, its overriding perspective is forward-looking, epitomised in the 'Future directions' conclusions for each chapter which consider future implications and likely reforms. Balancing brevity with detail and rigour with accessibility, Land Law is a truly modern textbook that supports and motivates its readers, allowing them to reap the rewards an understanding of this complex but fascinating subject will bring. Online resources The published text will be accompanied by extensive online resources containing a test bank of questions, animated diagrams, 'Wider debates' podcasts from the author, 'Leading lawyers' perspectives' videos, advice on answering essay and problem questions, updates on changes in the law and new cases, as well as links to useful websites.
This fifth edition covers everything from the legal definition of land to the essential elements in a lease or tenancy and the function of covenants in the planning of land use.
A considered balance of depth, detail, context, and critique, Public Law Directions offers the most student-friendly guide to the subject; empowering students to evaluate the law, understand its practical application, and approach assessments with confidence.
Gardner and MacKenzie's An Introduction to Land Law has been widely acclaimed by students and teachers for the distinctively informative and stimulating way in which it addresses this challenging subject. Concise and highly readable, it covers the main points of land law found in the syllabuses of law schools in England and Wales. While not intended as a comprehensive textbook, it provides both sufficient detail, and especially the illuminating overview needed, for a real understanding, and many pointers for those seeking more. Most of all, it stands apart from other land law books in the model it offers of critical engagement with the material. As the authors say in their Preface: [W]e aim not just to state the law, but to paint its portrait, or tell its story, or something of that kind. So we set out to offer a careful, thoughtful, honest and critical (but not unsympathetic) appraisal, from a number of directions, both doctrinal and contextual. Once again, too, we present the portrait or story partly for its own interest, but most of all so as to encourage readers to try something similar for themselves – to reflect on the subject more, and so understand it better, and at the same time deepen their thinking skills in general. As well as updating the book's overall coverage, this new edition features reworked discussions of areas where the law has recently undergone substantial change, and also where the authors' thoughts themselves have developed – including ownership, easements, and rectification of the land register. As one reader of the first edition commented, 'it shone light where none had shone before, and lit a clear path to understanding'.
