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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 law of real property in England and Wales.
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 ...
Registered land in English law accounts for around 88 per cent of the total land mass. Since 1925, English land law has required that proprietary interests in land be registered, except in cases where it is necessary to protect social or family interests that cannot reasonably be expected to be registered.
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 ...
ISBN 0-10-200288-6. Transfer of Land - The Rule in Bain v. Fothergill (Working Paper No 98) (PDF). The Law Commission. 1986. ISBN 0-11-730179-5. Charlotte Groom (2011). "Straight through Certainty and Out the Other Side: Section 2 of the Law of Property (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 1989 and Proprietary Estoppel" (PDF). Southampton Student Law ...
The Law of Property Act 1925, section 205(1)(ix) gives the following definition of land. "Land" includes land of any tenure, mines and minerals, whether or not held apart from the surface, buildings or parts of buildings (whether the division is horizontal, vertical or made in any other way) and other hereditaments; also a manor, advowson, and a rent and other incorporeal hereditaments, and an ...
In another example, it was held in Lloyds Bank v Carrick that a person in actual occupation of a home, who had an unregistered right to buy the home, could not claim an overriding interest (as would have been possible in registered land) because the only source of the interest was the estate contract, and without registration this was void. [21]
Simplified and modernised the law of land registration; Made the register reflect a more accurate picture of a title to land, showing more fully the rights and subsidiary interests that affect it; and; Was intended to facilitate the introduction of e-conveyancing. The Act made some major changes to the law regulating registered land ...