LLB M122 English and French Law (Maitrise),
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LLB M100MD Law,
LLB M100MS Law,
LLB M101 Law (Including Foundation Year),
LLB M107 Law (Including Placement Year),
LLB M120 Law (Including Year Abroad),
MLAWM199 Law,
MLAWMA98 Law (Including Placement Year),
MLAWMA99 Law (Including Year Abroad),
BA MVC5 Philosophy and Law,
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BA MVC8 Philosophy and Law (Including Foundation Year),
BA VM51 Philosophy and Law (Including Year Abroad),
BA VM58 Philosophy and Law (Including Foundation Year and Year Abroad),
LLB MM20 Law with Human Rights,
LLB MM21 Law with Human Rights (Including Year Abroad),
LLB MM22 Law with Human Rights (Including Placement Year),
LLB MM30 Law with Human Rights (Including Foundation Year),
LLB MV06 Law with Philosophy (Including Foundation Year),
LLB MV16 Law with Philosophy,
LLB MV18 Law with Philosophy (Including Year Abroad),
LLB MV19 Law with Philosophy (Including Placement Year),
LLB ML14 Law with Politics (Including Year Abroad),
LLB ML15 Law with Politics (Including Placement Year),
LLB ML16 Law with Politics,
LLB ML26 Law with Politics (Including Foundation Year),
LLB MN00 Law with Business,
LLB MN01 Law with Business (Including Year Abroad),
LLB MN02 Law with Business (Including Placement Year),
LLB MN03 Law with Business (Including Foundation Year),
LLB MN10 Law with Finance,
LLB MN11 Law with Finance (Including Year Abroad),
LLB MN12 Law with Finance (Including Placement Year),
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LLB MM00 Law with Criminology,
LLB MM01 Law with Criminology (Including Year Abroad),
LLB MM02 Law with Criminology (Including Placement Year),
LLB MM03 Law with Criminology (Including Foundation Year),
LLB M123 Licence English and French Law (Double Degree),
BA VM10 History and Law,
BA VM11 History and Law (Including Foundation Year),
BA VM12 History and Law (including Placement Year),
BA VM13 History and Law (including Year Abroad),
LLB M1Q3 Law with Literature,
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LLB M1Q5 Law with Literature (Including Placement Year),
LLB M1Q6 Law with Literature (Including Year Abroad),
LLB M1V1 Law with History,
LLB M1V2 Law with History (Including Foundation Year),
LLB M1V3 Law with History (Including Placement Year),
LLB M1V4 Law with History (Including Year Abroad)
This 15-credit module will provide students with an introduction to the fundamental principles of the law of property in England and Wales.
Together with the 15-credit Land Law and Equity & Trusts modules, it is designed to satisfy the property law requirements of the professional bodies for those students who intend to practise law in England and Wales.
It is designed to provide students with a sound understanding of the key features of property law and of the framework within which the property lawyer operates, and the wide range of matters this covers. Students will learn about the distinction between property rights and personal rights and the distinction between personal and real property. The main focus of the module will be on real property, or property rights in relation to land.
Upon successful completion of the module students will be able to:
1) Define and explain what is meant by:
a) real property;
b) personal property;
c) and intellectual property;
2) Explain what is meant by Equity and define and describe equitable maxims;
3) Understand the concepts of ownership, occupation and possession, and distinguish between legal ownership and equitable ownership;
4) Understand the ways in which interests in property might be acquired, both formally (by grant, by will, upon intestacy etc.) and informally (through the doctrines of implied trusts and adverse possession);
5) Apply their knowledge of the law to hypothetical fact-situations.
This module serves as an introduction to the English law of property. Students will learn about the distinction between property rights and personal rights. Students will then look at the distinction between personal property and real property.
The main focus of the module will be on real property, or property rights in relation to land. Students will discuss the types of legal rights that can exist in relation to land. In doing so, the module takes a brief look at how the feudal origins of English land law still continue to shape how we talk about land law nowadays. The module will consider mechanisms through which the owner or occupier of land might seek to protect "their" property rights in relation to land and examine how these rights are acquired and how they are protected. Students will also turn their attention to the idea of equitable property rights and what is meant by the distinction between "rights at law" and "rights in equity". This includes a first look at the trust. The module will also study two methods of governing property: restrictive covenants, allowing a proprietor to govern usage of property even after they parted with their "ownership" of the property, and wills and testaments, allowing proprietors to determine what happens to property after their death.
This module consists of 10 weekly one-hour tutorials. In addition, each week before the tutorial, two or more pre-recorded video lectures will be released on the module Moodle page. Students are expected to have watched these videos before the tutorial.
The syllabus contains short notes for each tutorial, as well as the required readings for each week. Students are expected to have read the notes and completed the required reading before the tutorial. At the end of each week's notes, students will find the tutorial questions. Students are expected to be able to discuss these questions in the tutorial together with their colleagues and their lecturer. The syllabus is as follows:
Tutorial 1: The Idea of Property and Forms of Property
Tutorial 2: An Introduction to Land Law
Tutorial 3: Protection for the horizontal and vertical boundaries of land
Tutorial 4: Lost and hidden objects; treasure
Tutorial 5: Fixtures and chattels
Tutorial 6: An introduction to "equity"
Tutorial 7: The historical basis of the trust and some modern applications of the trust
Tutorial 8: Testamentary dispositions of property
Tutorial 9: The acquisition of freehold estates
Tutorial 10: Land law in action: freehold covenants