Adverse possession / Stephen Jourdan.

London : Butterworths, 2003.

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Adverse possession -- Great Britain.

Part I : Introduction

1. Definitions and overview

2. Historical introduction and proposals for reform

3. Interpretation, policy and human rights

4. Title to land

Part II : The elements of adverse possession

5. The significance of adverse possession, discontinuance and dispossession

6. The requirement that possession must be 'adverse' and continuous

7. The meaning of possession

8. The factual element of possession

9. The mental element of possession : the animus possidendi

10 The extent of possession : when possession of part of the surface will be treated as possession of whole

11. The extent of possession : mines and minerals

12. Possession of specfic types of land

13. Whether specific uses of land constitute possession

Part III : The running of time

14. How long must time run for?

15. What will stop time running?

16. Extension of time for acknowledgement or payment

17. Extension of time for disability

18. Extension of time for fraud, mistake, or deliberate concealment

19. Estoppel

Part IV : The effect of time running

20. Unregistered title

21. Registered title

22. Registered land under the Land Registration Act 2002

Part V : Special cases: 23. Easements, profits and other rights

24. Leases

25. Encroachments

26. Mortgages

27. Trusts

28. Beneficiary in possession to exclusion of trustee

29. Co-ownership

30. Successive interests

31. Issues following death

32. Rentcharges: annuities, tithes and advowsons

33. Boundaries

34. The sale of land

35. Licences and tenancies at will

36. Pleading points

Appendix 1 : Limitation act 1980

Appendix 2 : other relevant statutory provisions.

Includes index.

0406982511

liii, 695 p. ; 26 cm