Includes index.

What's special about land? -- Land, property, and equity -- Legal estates and legal interests -- Equitable interests -- Human rights and land -- The priority triangle -- Direct rights -- The priority triangle in action : licences -- Formal methods of acquisition : contracts, deeds, and registration -- Informal methods of acquisition : adverse possession -- The doctrine of anticipation : Walsh v Lonsdale -- Proprietary estoppel -- Trusts of land -- Unregistered land and priorities -- Registered land and priorities -- Evaluating the Land Registration Act 2002 -- Interests in the home -- Regulating co-ownership -- Co-ownership and third parties : priorities -- Co-ownership and third parties : applications for sale -- Successive ownership -- The lease -- Regulating leases and protecting occupiers -- Leasehold covenants -- Easements -- Freehold covenants -- Flat ownership : long leases and commonhold -- Security interests in land -- Protection of the borrower -- Lender's rights and remedies.