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Companion to Property Law and Practice
By
Robert Abbey and Mark Richards
Description
* Provides a
clear and logical progression through the main problems that arise in
a conveyancing transaction, culminating in an examination of the
process as a whole.
* Offers full
coverage of freeholds, commonholds, leaseholds, and commercial
conveyancing processes - ideal for courses with high-street or
commercial emphases
* Written by
highly-experienced authors - Robert Abbey is the Chief External
Examiner for Property Law & Practice and Director of Legal
Practice at the University of Westminster and Mark Richards teaches
Property Law & Practice at the University of Westminster; they
are the joint authors of A Practical Approach to Conveyancing and A
Practical Approach to Commercial Conveyancing and Property
* Uses charts,
illustrations, and boxed inserts to clarify particular points of
difficulty and to consolidate students\\\' knowledge
* Offers
guidance on good assessment practice as well as containing a number
of multiple-choice, short answer and transactional questions
* Incorporates
relevant elements of skills and pervasive subjects (e.g. writing and
drafting), as well as highlighting a number of important professional
conduct matters
* Contains
full reference to relevant web sites and wider reading especially
from practitioner texts
* Online
Resource Centre includes: updated legislation, extra learning
resources and revision information, annotated web links to legal
resources, and additional forms not included in the book.
This Companion to
the LPC has been designed to help students through the demanding
subject of Property Law & Practice. It provides a clear and
logical progression through the main problems arising in a
conveyancing transaction, culminating in an examination of the
process as a whole. Straddling commercial and high-street approaches
to the subject, it offers full coverage of all the elements of
freehold commonhold, leasehold, and commercial conveyancing
processes. Looking in detail at specific topics it uses charts,
illustrations, and boxed inserts to clarify any particular points of
difficulty and to consolidate students\\\' knowledge. It offers guidance
on good assessment practice, as well as containing a number of
multiple-choice, short answer and transactional questions. It
contains full reference to relevant web sites and wider reading
especially from practitioner texts and incorporates relevant and
appropriate elements of both skills and pervasive subjects (e.g.
writing and drafting), as well as highlighting a number of important
professional conduct matters.
COMPANION WEB SITE
This title
features a Online Resource Centre specifically created to work
alongside the text; providing an up-to-date and comprehensive
resource for students and lecturers. Includes: updated legislation,
extra learning resources and revision information, annotated web
links to legal resources, and additional forms not included in the
book.
Readership:
Trainee solicitors taking the course on conveyancing on the Legal
Practice Course.
Contents
1. Introduction to
the book and its format and assessment technique
2. Introduction to
conveyancing; registered and unregistered land; taking instructions
3. The draft
contract
4. Searches,
enquiries and town and country planning
5. Deducing and
investigation of title
6. Exchange of
contracts; supervening events following exchange
7. The purchase
deed; mortgages
8. Pre completion
procedures and completion
9. Post completion
procedures; delays and remedies
10. Leaseholds and
commonhold
11. Business
tenancies
12. New properties
13. Putting it all
together, the process as a whole
Authors, editors, and contributors
Robert Abbey,
Legal Practice Course Director, University of Westminster and
Mark Richards,
Senior Lecturer in Law, University of Westminster
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