This book comprises a collection of papers given at the sixth biennial conference of the Centre for Property Law at the University of Reading held in March 2006, and is the fourth in the series Modern Studies in Property Law. This volume is a refereed and revised selection of the papers, covering a broad range of topics of immediate importance, not only in domestic law, but also on a worldwide scale.
Author(s): Elizabeth Cooke
Year: 2007
Language: English
Pages: 337
Prelims......Page 2
Preface......Page 6
Contents......Page 10
Table of Cases......Page 14
Table of Legislation......Page 24
Table of International Treaties and Conventions......Page 34
I Keynote Address......Page 36
1 Reforming Housing Law: A Progress Report......Page 38
II Law and Equity......Page 56
2 Equitable Co-ownership: Proprietary Rights in Name Only?......Page 58
3 Why is the Law of Undue Influence so Hard to Understand and Apply?......Page 84
4 The Lie of the Land: Mortgage Law as Legal Fiction......Page 108
5 Curbing the Enthusiasm of Finders......Page 132
6 Leases: Rethinking Possession against Vulnerable Groups......Page 154
7 Reconciling Property Law and Social Security Law: Same Concepts, Different Meanings?......Page 178
III Possession of Land......Page 202
8 The Aquisition of Rights in Property by the Effluxion of Time......Page 204
9 An Adjudication Rule for Encroachment Disputes: Adverse Possession or a Building Encroachment Statute?......Page 232
10 de Soto Discovers the Prairies: Of Squatters and the Canadian West......Page 254
IV Property, Empire and Indigenous Title......Page 272
11 Land Law and the Making Of The British Empire......Page 274
12 Translating Native Title to Individual ‘Title’ in Australia: Are Real Property Forms and Indigenous Interests Reconcilable?......Page 298
13 Individual Title versus Collective Title in Australia: Reflections on the North American and New Zealand Experiences of Indigenous Title to Land......Page 330
Index......Page 364
