Land Law - Gray, Kevin (OUP Oxford, 2011)
Rectification' as a sub-species of 'alteration'
Cover; Preface; Contents; Table of cases; Table of statutes; Table of conventions and treaties; Table of statutory instruments; List of abbreviations; 1 Fundamental concepts; Summary; Introduction; Land; The multiple dimensions of land; The first two dimensions of land; Statutory definitions of 'land'; The third dimension of land; Subterranean zones; Superjacent space; Buildings and other constructions; Fixtures; Trees, plants and flowers; Wild animals; Water; Fish; Incorporeal hereditaments; Estates and tenures; The doctrine of estates; Emergence of the leasehold estate
The modern impact of the doctrine of estatesThe theory of tenure; Law and equity; The origins of equity; The distinction between legal and equitable rights; The role of equitable principle; Differentiation of legal and equitable ownership; The institution of the trust; The equitable doctrine of notice; The express trust as a management device; Implied trusts; Property; The fragility of the concept of property; Property is not a thing but a power relationship; Property is a quantum of socially approved control; Property in land; Multiple claims of 'property' in the same land
The rational coordination of property in landThe central problem of land dealings; Proprietary and non-proprietary rights in land; Some practical illustrations; The definition of proprietary quality; Irreducible features of property; Immunity from summary cancellation or extinguishment; Presumptive right to exclude; Right to prioritise resource values; Human rights; Human rights as a bridge between personal and proprietary entitlement; A conflict of judicial perspectives; Fluctuating perspectives on proprietary entitlement; Property as socially constituted fact
Property as conceptual entitlementProperty as stewardship of a finite community resource; The statutory organisation of proprietary rights in land; The watershed between legal and equitable rights; Rights authorised to exist 'at law' (ie as legal rights); Rights which are inherently equitable; Informal or incomplete entitlements ranking as merely equitable rights; The distinction between real and general burdens on land; The 'meta-principles' of English land law; Silent expression of a legal culture; The content of the meta-principles; FURTHER READING; SELF-TEST QUESTIONS.