Subjects:

Property Law

Contents:

Part I: Easements Generally Characteristics of an Easement Equitable Rights to Easements Part II: The Acquisition of Easements Creation of Easements By Known Transactions Establishment of Easements By Prescription Easements and Registered Land Part III: Particular Easements and Particular Natural Rights of a Similar Character Rights In Respect Of Water Right To Light Air Rights Of Way Support Party-Walls, Banks, Boundary Trees And Buildings And Access To Neighbouring Land Part IV: Extinguishment of Easements Extinguishment of Easements Part V: Disturbance of Easements What Amounts To A Disturbance Remedies For Disturbance Appendices

Gale on Easements takes into account the substantive changes to the law of easements in recent years, thoroughly examining statutes and providing an in-depth analysis of case law. Explaining what constitutes an easement and detailing specific types, Gale on Easementsussion of potential issues and appropriate remedies and advice for when an easement has been disturbed, solutions to problems that may arise in practice are clarified.

Fully updated to take account of recent legislative and case law developments, the new edition of Gale on Easements:-

• Provides a fuller treatment of land registration and easements as overriding interests, following the coming into force of the Land Registration Rules 2003
• Examines, in thorough detail, the three interventions by the House of Lords in Bakewell v Brandwood, R (Beresford) v Sunderland City Council and Moncrieff v Jamieson, as well as the many recent decisions of the Court of Appeal
• Considers the Law Commission Consultation Paper on Easements, Covenants and Profits a Prendre
• Includes discussion on the subject of damages and, in particular, damages in lieu of injunction
• Analyses the upsurge of interest in rights of light, the remedies for their infringement and the measure of damages