Subjects:

Property Law

Contents:

PART I INTRODUCTION

1. Plural ownership

PART II FORMS OF PLURAL OWNERSHIP OF LAND

2. Successive interests in land

3. Co-ownership: requirements and forms

4. Termination of co-ownership

severance

5. Joint tenancy and tenancy in common reviewed

PART III REGULATION OF PLURAL OWNERSHIP OF LAND

6. Regulation: introduction and scope

7. Occupation: rights, control and consequences

8. Powers of trustees: extent, exercise and control

9. Protection of purchasers

PART IV OTHER PROPERTY

10. Plural ownership of property other than land

Plural Ownership is a thorough and thought-provoking analysis focussing on the principles underlying two areas of property law: concurrent ownership (in particular severance of joint tenancies) and successive ownership, and examines how they shade into each other.

Smith first considers the range of rights recognised by the law and the ways in which these rights operate. The book then moves on to survey the regulation of these rights, principally by statute, providing a detailed examination of the Trusts of Land and Appointment of Trustees Act 1996, and exploring the principles behind the Act. He provides an in-depth investigation of this legislation and the ways in which it relates to earlier principles and authorities.