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By 2013, 82 per cent was formally registered at HM Land Registry. [1] In 2010, over a third of the UK was owned by 1,200 families descended from aristocracy, and 15,354 km 2 was owned by the top three land owners, the Forestry Commission, National Trust and Defence Estates. [2] The Crown Estate held around 1,448 km 2. English land law is the ...
Bruton v London and Quadrant Housing Trust [1999] UKHL 26 is an English land law case that examined the rights of a 'tenant' in a situation where the 'landlord', a charitable housing association had no authority to grant a tenancy, but in which the 'tenant' sought to enforce the duty to repair on the association implied under landlord and tenant statutes.
Land law, or the law of "real" property, is the most significant area of property law that is typically compulsory on university courses. Although capital, often held in corporations and trusts, has displaced land as the dominant repository of social wealth, land law still determines the quality and cost of people's home life, where businesses and industry can be run, and where agriculture ...
Cobbe v Yeoman's Row Management Ltd [2008] UKHL 55 is a House of Lords case in English land law and relates to proprietary estoppel in the multi-property developer context. . The court of final appeal awarded the project manager £150,000 on a quantum meruit basis for unjust enrichment because Yeoman's Row had received the benefit of his services without paying for t
A settlement is defined by s2(1) of the 1882 act as "any land or any estate or interest in land, which stands for the time being limited to or in trust for any persons by way of succession". Basically, whenever a document creates a succession of interests in land the Settled Land Acts will apply. Generally there must be an element of succession.
A Anas, ‘Rent Control with Matching Economies: A Model of European Housing Market Regulation’ (1997) 15(1) Journal of Real Estate Finance and Economics 111–37; S Bright, "Avoiding Tenancy Legislation: Sham and Contracting Out Revisited" [2002] CLJ 146; S Bright, Landlord and Tenant Law in Context (2007)
After the War, the focus returned to the reform of the system of land law. A committee was appointed in 1919, headed by Sir Leslie Scott, to report to the Lord Chancellor on land transfer. [2] This Lands Requisition Committee proposed a bill, which was introduced to Parliament in 1920 by Lord Birkenhead. This became law on 29 June 1922 and was ...
Lloyds Bank plc v Rosset [1990] UKHL 14 is an English land law, trusts law and matrimonial law case. It specifically deals with the translation into money of physical contributions from a cohabitee or spouse (as regards each other), under which its principles have been largely superseded.