LL276      One Unit
Property

This information is for the 2025/26 session.

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Property examines principles of Land Law and the Law of Trusts. Land Law is taught in the Autumn Term and Trusts in the Winter Term.

The Land Law component of Property is designed to introduce students to the principles of the law of real property (i.e., land).  The course examines estates and interests in land, legal and equitable ownership, title registration, and trusts of land (including constructive trusts). It also considers the law governing specific third party interests – licences, proprietary estoppel claims, easements and, freehold covenants.

The Trusts component of the course focuses on general principles of trusts law and examines the circumstances in which trusts arise, the obligations of trustees, and the remedies available to beneficiaries when these obligations are breached.  It also considers the nature and classification of trusts, including resulting and constructive trusts, and how the law of trusts relates to and impacts on the law of contract, wrongs and unjust enrichment.

20 hours of lectures and 10 hours of classes in the Winter Term.
20 hours of lectures and 9 hours of classes in the Autumn Term.

This course has a reading week in Week 6 of Autumn and Winter Term.

One formative (unassessed) essay per term.

Advice on reading, including textbook recommendations, will be provided at the beginning of the first and second terms. An essay which students might profitably read before the commencement of the course is Peter Birks, ‘Before We Begin: Five Keys to Land Law’, in Land Law: Themes and Perspectives, ed. S. Bright & J. Dewar (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1998), 457-86.

Exam (100%), duration: 210 Minutes in the Spring exam period