A law book on ADVERSE POSSESSION which is jargon free, concise and easy to understand without sacrificing the breadth or detail of the topic. The book deals with - Issues of land law, land disputes and 'squatters rights'. Evidence for Adverse Possession cases Claiming and defences to Adverse Possession. Includes all the relevant Laws/Statutes, case laws/precedents etc. All with detailed 'plain English' explanations. Covers the UK regions of England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland.

Now in its twelfth edition, Todd & Wilson's Textbook on Trusts & Equity continues to strike the balance between introductory and more challenging texts. Carefully written with the student in mind, the text provides an accessible, yet intellectually stimulating, introduction to the subject. Sarah Wilson excels at writing in a clear and enthusiastic way, enlightening the more complex issues of trusts law without undue simplifications. The book is structured to reflect the content of a typical LLB course, and offers in-depth coverage of trusts law. Students are encouraged to critically engage with the material through real-life examples, key scholarship and current contextual and theoretical perspectives, including related commercial settings. Todd & Wilson's Textbook on Trusts & Equity engages with wider considerations, drawn from trusts scholarship and beyond, to provide an analysis of the subject which is not only rounded, but also designed to be stimulating and revelatory. Rigorously revised every two years, this book can be relied upon as one of the most up-to-date trusts texts available.

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Welcome, the following information will explain in detail how to claim land and property legally. The UK Land Registry currently holds details of around 21 million registered land plots and properties; in effect it's a massive database of property ownership guaranteed by the land registry itself. In simple terms, this leaves an estimated 7 million unregistered land plot and properties in the UK right now with a combined value of billions of 's. This is not to say all 7 million can easily be claimed ... But taking into account the size of the figures involved here, the likelihood of finding several plots of land and properties that you could claim is very good indeed. According to the Empty Homes Agency there are approximately 900,000 empty homes in Britain of which nearly 800,000 are in London. A sizeable proportion of these are abandoned or derelict. These properties, few of which have traceable owners, are just the type that after carrying out all proper research you may be able to claim from using this guide. These properties will of course at some time have had an owner. It may be that the owner has simply never registered his or her title... However it could also be that the owner has died and left no will and has no relatives or that the owner has never moved away from the area many years ago effectively abandoning the property. These then briefly are some of the types of property and the plots. Which by the following the detailed guidelines within this guide, you could claim as your own via the legal vehicle of adverse possession. We will cover all these points in much more detail later. Another interesting point worthy of mentioning here is the Royal Institute of Chartered Surveyors figure of over 17,000 plots of land and property that are being illegally claimed every year or around 250 per week. Not all of these would be claims of the scale and type we are going to consider in this guide. However this did lead Charles Harpum of the Law Commission (who helped draft the recent Land registration Act 2002) to recently comment that people claiming land and property had become something of a "national pastime." The legal definition of adverse possession is as follows. "The gaining of title real estate is continuous hostile, open, and notorious possession over a statutory period." Again we'll cover the content of this definition in further detail, as we progress. Initially, the land plots and properties you'll be looking for could be run down or abandoned...Derelict farmhouses or disowned buildings... Properties accessed via an overgrown driveway & rusty gates ... Fields, hidden plots of land.... Even old terraced or detached houses. BUT WHERE DO YOU START? Please read on and I will explain in full following the pages of this guide."

2012 Reprint of Original 1957 Edition. Exact facsimile of the original edition, not reproduced with Optical Recognition Software. (c)New introduction and foreword by Martino Publishing. The early colonists brought to these shores not only a cargo of great hopes and meager possessions, but also the feudalistic principles of England from whence they had embarked. Slowly, these traditions were reshaped upon the anvil of a changing environment, both physical and economic, as the original settlements spread inland along the waterways. This book traces the evolution of our land tenure system from colonial times, when the Crown granted charters and privileges to companies and proprietors, to the present da

2014 Reprint of 1948 Edition. Full facsimile of the original edition, not reproduced with Optical Recognition Software. Because California ranks as the nation's leading agricultural state and one of the world's top industrial regions, it is fitting that this groundbreaking book on California land history should be reissued. First published in 1948, this unrevised paperback edition tells the story of how Indian lands became Franciscan missions and Californio ranchos and how various legal and extra-legal devices of the United States encouraged private American ownership of these lands after the Mexican-American War. The strength of the book derives from the author's ability to accomplish the goals he establishes in the subtitle: to tell the story of mission lands, ranchos, squatters, mining claims, railroad grants, land scrip, and homesteads. The author is gifted with the talent to unravel these developments in the style of a storyteller. For example, Robinson first describes California's early Spanish land laws and institutions, then selects San Pascual (Pasadena) as their archetype, and narrates the area's land history. After further discussing changes in land institutions and laws that followed the Mexican-American War, Robinson profiles San Francisco and Los Angeles as prototypes of such changes. Contents include: I. Whose California? II. First Owners III. Missionary Empire IV. Four Square Leagues V. First Rancheros VI. Gifts of Land VII. Chain of Title VIII. The Land Commission IX. Shotgun Titles X. Titles in El Dorado XI. Land Grants to Railroads XII. Land for Settlers XIII. Land Scrip XIV. The State as Owner XV. Buying and Selling California XVI. Insurance of Title XVII. Title Story of Two Cities Appendix Bibliography Index

Traditional explanations of metropolitan development and urban racial segregation have emphasized the role of consumer demand and market dynamics. In the first edition of "Race, Real Estate, and Uneven Development" Kevin Fox Gotham reexamined the assumptions behind these explanations and offered a provocative new thesis. Using the Kansas City metropolitan area as a case study, Gotham provided both quantitative and qualitative documentation of the role of the real estate industry and the Federal Housing Administration, demonstrating how these institutions have promulgated racial residential segregation and uneven development. Gotham challenged contemporary explanations while providing fresh insights into the racialization of metropolitan space, the interlocking dimensions of class and race in metropolitan development, and the importance of analyzing housing as a system of social stratification. In this second edition, he includes new material that explains the racially unequal impact of the subprime real estate crisis that began in late 2007, and explains why racial disparities in housing and lending remain despite the passage of fair housing laws and antidiscrimination statutes.

This story is for everyone who owns or aspires to own property anywhere in the United States.Every day, in every state of America, by law, any private citizen can exercise prescription and adverse possession to take the private property of another. Additionally, government entities exercise a different process, condemnation by right of eminent domain, to acquire property. Unlike peaceful acquisitions, the currency for prescription and adverse possession is continuous, open, and notorious hostility. Betty shares her personal story about easement claims, prescription, and adverse possession. Her story is one of triumph over odds that seemed insurmountable. She presents the war waged by "friendly" neighbors and why, despite the odds, she moved forward, devoted, to the restoration and preservation of a family property. In these pages, you find the transfiguration of victimization into a cause that gives voice to millions otherwise invisible and suffering in silence. This journey is proof that purpose driven vision can overcome confusion with wisdom, neutralize hostility with principle, disarm disappointment and despair with service, achieve true peace with patience, victory with vigilance, and perfection with perseverance. About the authorAfter more than twenty-five years as a professional in a Fortune 100 company, B. Smith Hearn found inspired purpose in returning to her hometown to renovate and preserve a family business property, deliver fair housing, and facilitate first-time home ownership to others. She was shocked to find her property rights threatened by unsubstantiated easement, prescription, and adverse possession claims. She researched U.S. laws and practices that jeopardize the rights of property owners everywhere in the U.S. She uses her hands-on experience, extensive research, and surprising discoveries to educate property owners across the U.S. about potential dangers within existing real-estate laws and about protecting their real estate from hostile takings by private individuals and businesses.

This is the first book on land administration and reform in Sub-Saharan Africa, and is highly relevant to all developing countries around the world. It provides simple practical steps to turn the hugely controversial subject of 'land grabs' into a development opportunity by improving land governance to reduce the risks of dispossessing poor landholders while ensuring mutually beneficial investors' deals. The book shows how Sub Saharan Africa can leverage its abundant and highly valuable natural resources to eradicate poverty by improving land governance through a ten point programme to scale up policy reforms and investments at a cost of USD 4.5 billion. The book points out formidable challenges to implementation including high vulnerability to land grabbing and expropriation with poor compensation as about 90 percent of rural lands in Sub Saharan Africa are undocumented, but also timely opportunities since high commodity prices and investor interest in large scale agriculture have increased land values and returns to investing in land administration. It argues that success in implementation will require participation of many players including Pan-African organisations, Sub Saharan Africa governments, the private sector, civil society and development partners; but that ultimate success will depend on the political will of Sub Saharan Africa governments to move forward with comprehensive policy reforms and on concerted support by the international development community. Its rigorous analysis of land governance issues, yet down-to-earth solutions, are a reflection of Byamugisha's more than 20 years of global experience in land reform and administration especially in Asia and Africa. This volume will be of great interest to and relevant for a wide audience interested in African development, global studies in land, and natural resource management.

Underwater on your home? Don't know what to do? Let one of the the nation's leading experts guide you to the right decision. In Underwater Home, Professor White addresses all your concerns and helps you work through the emotions and practical realities of being underwater on your home. He explains your options and gives you the facts that will empower you to make the best decision for your family, free from guilt or fear, and with clarity, confidence, and peace of mind. Underwater Home is both an emotional and practical guide for the underwater homeowner. Professor White explains when it makes financial sense to stay in your underwater home and when it makes sense to get out. And he offers no-nonsense insight into how to negotiate with your lender. If you're underwater on your home, you can't afford not to read this book. "In a tone that is both conversational and precise... lays out the case for and against walking away from an upside-down mortgage where the home is worth less than the mortgage balance. As is his habit, Mr. White strips away many of the emotional reasons that are often touted to deter walkaways. - Wall Street Journal, Decemeber 7, 2010. "Underwater mortgage? The book banks and Fannie hope you won't read." Reuters, December 15, 2010 "Law Prof's Book Helps Underwater Homeowners Decide When to Walk Away" - ABA Journal, December 8, 2010. "A how-to book on strategic mortgage default." - Orlando Sentinel, December 15, 2010 "Brent White, a University of Arizona law professor who has preached the morality double standard that homeowners face while companies default on loans without so much as a second thought, now makes his case in a book that virtually holds homeowners' hand through the process. He tells them what to consider when deciding whether they should stop paying the mortgage... White even walks homeowners through the math to figure out whether they're better off staying put and or walking away. - Orlando Sentinel, December 15, 2010

Can "say no to bullying campaigns" for American children succeed while their parents and other role models exercise hostile prescription and adverse possession laws to take interests in the real property of another? Have these laws, in existence for over one hundred and fifty years, proven themselves too toxic to sustain the concept of the American Dream? Easements In Straight Talk is ideal as a handy reference for anyone. It is especially useful for teens and young adults. This handbook contains what they may need to know about easements before acquiring their first property anywhere in the USA. A summarized version the author's book titled Easements, its 102 pages that can be read, cover-to-cover, in an hour while providing insight that could serve many generations to come.

Title: A new collection of laws, charters and local ordinances of the governments of Great Britain, France and Spain, relating to the concessions of land in their respective colonies: together with the laws of Mexico and Texas on the same subject ...Author: Joseph M WhitePublisher: Gale, Sabin Americana Description: Based on Joseph Sabin's famed bibliography, Bibliotheca Americana, Sabin Americana, 1500--1926 contains a collection of books, pamphlets, serials and other works about the Americas, from the time of their discovery to the early 1900s. Sabin Americana is rich in original accounts of discovery and exploration, pioneering and westward expansion, the U.S. Civil War and other military actions, Native Americans, slavery and abolition, religious history and more.Sabin Americana offers an up-close perspective on life in the western hemisphere, encompassing the arrival of the Europeans on the shores of North America in the late 15th century to the first decades of the 20th century. Covering a span of over 400 years in North, Central and South America as well as the Caribbean, this collection highlights the society, politics, religious beliefs, culture, contemporary opinions and momentous events of the time. It provides access to documents from an assortment of genres, sermons, political tracts, newspapers, books, pamphlets, maps, legislation, literature and more.Now for the first time, these high-quality digital scans of original works are available via print-on-demand, making them readily accessible to libraries, students, independent scholars, and readers of all ages.++++The below data was compiled from various identification fields in the bibliographic record of this title. This data is provided as an additional tool in helping to insure edition identification: ++++SourceLibrary: Huntington LibraryDocumentID: SABCP00422402CollectionID: CTRG10170504-BPublicationDate: 18390101SourceBibCitation: Selected Americana from Sabin's Dictionary of books relating to AmericaNotes: Includes index. Half title: White's new recopilacion of the laws of Spain and the Indies, and of colonial charters, commissions, &c.Collation: 2 v.; 23 cm

Title: A new collection of laws, charters and local ordinances of the governments of Great Britain, France and Spain, relating to the concessions of land in their respective colonies: together with the laws of Mexico and Texas on the same subject ...Author: Joseph M WhitePublisher: Gale, Sabin Americana Description: Based on Joseph Sabin's famed bibliography, Bibliotheca Americana, Sabin Americana, 1500--1926 contains a collection of books, pamphlets, serials and other works about the Americas, from the time of their discovery to the early 1900s. Sabin Americana is rich in original accounts of discovery and exploration, pioneering and westward expansion, the U.S. Civil War and other military actions, Native Americans, slavery and abolition, religious history and more.Sabin Americana offers an up-close perspective on life in the western hemisphere, encompassing the arrival of the Europeans on the shores of North America in the late 15th century to the first decades of the 20th century. Covering a span of over 400 years in North, Central and South America as well as the Caribbean, this collection highlights the society, politics, religious beliefs, culture, contemporary opinions and momentous events of the time. It provides access to documents from an assortment of genres, sermons, political tracts, newspapers, books, pamphlets, maps, legislation, literature and more.Now for the first time, these high-quality digital scans of original works are available via print-on-demand, making them readily accessible to libraries, students, independent scholars, and readers of all ages.++++The below data was compiled from various identification fields in the bibliographic record of this title. This data is provided as an additional tool in helping to insure edition identification: ++++SourceLibrary: Huntington LibraryDocumentID: SABCP00422401CollectionID: CTRG10170504-BPublicationDate: 18390101SourceBibCitation: Selected Americana from Sabin's Dictionary of books relating to AmericaNotes: Includes index. Half title: White's new recopilacion of the laws of Spain and the Indies, and of colonial charters, commissions, &c.Collation: 2 v.; 23 cm

Expansion of biofuel investment in Africa has been supported by indebted poor governments because of perceived potential benefits such as sustainable energy development, support to poor farmers, development of rural economies and reduction of greenhouse gas emissions. However, the intensity of the biofuels political economy in poor countries worsens inequality for the vulnerable poor. This is evidenced by large-scale land acquisitions in Africa for biofuel and crop production primarily for foreign consumption - food, animal feeds and energy crops. The search for land in African countries has been triggered by growing concerns over food and energy security in developed countries following the global food crisis of 2008. Moreover, these recent developments in large-scale land acquisitions in Africa are not a new phenomenon, but represent the renewal of old practices in commercial agriculture, which is either conducted through purchases or long-term leases. In addition to biofuel expansion, this study notes that current large-scale land acquisitions in sub-Saharan Africa have been further driven by demands to access water resources for other commercial agricultural crops. The land purchases or leases automatically guarantee access to African water. This demand for water is a response to climate change: most industrialists believe that acquiring land near a main water reservoir will guarantee future agricultural potential. Few analyses have been done on the land-water access nexus. This article considers recent developments in large-scale land acquisitions in Africa in terms of water security for commercial agriculture to safeguard the production of agricultural crops with a large water footprint. Using political economy analysis, this article examines national policy on these acquisitions, the rights accorded to foreign investors and how land acquisitions undermine indigenous rights to the common resources that have been the main source of livelihood in sub-Saharan Africa.