Property Law Library

Boundaries and adverse possession

Adverse possession

Acknowledgement of title

Adverse possession and Pye v Graham

Criminal offence

Land Registration Act 2002

Other miscellaneous points on adverse possession

Adverse possession

Boundary agreements

Deeds, plans and boundary features

Trees and hedges

Business lease renewal

Contracting out

Does the Act apply?

Easements on renewal

Electronic Communications Code

Insolvency of landlord

New lease terms (other than rent and duration)

Registration of claim

Rent and duration

Section 25 notices

Section 26 requests

Co-ownership and estoppel

Proprietary estoppel

Assurance and reliance - Thorner

Yeomans Row v Cobbe

Equitable accounting

Laches and estoppel

Legal and beneficial ownership

Orders for sale

Pallant v Morgan

Proprietary estoppel

Quistclose trust

Satisfying the equity

Conveyancing Quality Scheme

Excluding the right

Construing rights of way

Extent of grant

Implied and s62

Increasing the burden

Parking and mooring

Repair to right of way

Sporting and recreational rights

Substantial interference

Landlord and tenant (general)

Material compliance and breaches

Repayment of rent

Vacant possession

Landlord's response

Reasonable refusal

Tenant's request

Damages and s18 cap

Double Value claim

Landlord's obligation

Schedules and notices

Overlapping demise

Registration gap

Section 146 notices

Settlement and discontinuance

Surrender by agreement (conditional)

Unlawful forfeiture

Presumption of reality

Rent review notices

Time of essence

Chattels and fixtures

Construction of lease terms

Frustration of lease

Mobile Homes and Caravans

L & T (Covenants) Act 1995

Lease or licence?

Mutual enforceability of covenants

Civil and Tribunal procedure

Electric Charging Points

Execution by companies

Guarantees and indemnities

Penalty clauses

Restraint of trade

Service charges and insurance (general)

Conveyancing Quality Scheme

Subletting, sharing possession or occupation

Surrender by operation of law

Tenancy at will

Turnover Leases

Unlawful eviction

Enfranchisement

Forfeiture - s168

Terms of the transfer

Unfair contract terms

Enfranchisement

Manager under 1987 Act

Mobile homes and caravans

Right of first refusal

Right to manage

Service and administration charges

Variation of lease terms

Civil and Tribunal procedure

Electric Charging Points

Execution by companies

Guarantees and indemnities

Mobile Homes and Caravans

Mortgage possession

Assignee of charge

Counterclaim and set-off

Discrimination defences

Facility agreement

Limitation and shortfall

Mortgage possession

Negligence and loans

Tenants of mortgagees

Undue influence

Nuisance and trespass

Damages - account of profits

Defects in neighbouring property

Japanese Knotweed

Occupation by licensee

Compulsory purchase

Development plans

Possession claims

Human Rights Act defences

Cause of action estoppel

Discrimination defences

Homeless persons

Protection from Eviction Act

Public Sector Equality Duty

Setting aside orders and warrants

Suspending warrants

Property litigation

Damages in lieu of injunction

Tribunal jurisdiction and procedure

Without prejudice

Property transactions

Fixtures and Fittings

Land Registration Reform

Misrepresentation and answers to enquiries

Planning obligations

Positive covenants

Reasonable endeavours

Rectification of register

Writing - s2 of 1989 Act

Public access to land

Town and village greens

Relationship to planning

Town and village greens

Residential tenancies

Anti-social behaviour

Injunctions under 1996 Act

Possession orders

Disrepair claims

Costs in disrepair cases

Damages for disrepair

Defective Premises Act

Flexible tenancies

Liability of landlord

Notice of disrepair - s11

Anti-social behaviour

Assured shortholds - s21 notices

Assured tenancies

Disrepair claims

Electrical safety standards

Introductory tenancies

Proceeds of crime

Secure tenancies

Solicitors Practice Points

Tenant Fees Act

Tenant's notice to quit

Unlawful eviction

Restrictive covenants

Benefit of covenants

Consent to development

Enforcing covenants

Interpretation - breach

Modification and discharge

Variation under s610 of 1985 Act

Miscellaneous

Electric Charging Points

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Civil and Tribunal procedure

Civil Procedure Rules The Civil Procedure Rules can be accessed from the Ministry of Justice site. To access this part of the site click here. Statutory Instruments relevant to civil procedure are also available from the Ministry of Justice site. To access this part...

Guarantees and indemnities

Guarantee and indemnity distinguished Pitts v Jones [2007] EWCA Civ 1301 Summary This Court of Appeal decision refines (and unfortunately complicates) the distinction between a guarantee and an indemnity, and illustrates that a guarantee must be given in writing if it...

Execution by companies

Land Registry Execution of deeds See The Land Registry Practice Guide 08 - Execution of deeds which deals with the execution of deeds, generally and includes companies in the light of s44 of the Companies Act 2006). Execution by individual On own behalf and for the...