{"title":"Death, Lies, and Land Registration","authors":"S. Hudson, B. Sloan","doi":"10.5040/9781509921409.ch-016","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5040/9781509921409.ch-016","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":114415,"journal":{"name":"Modern Studies in Property Law","volume":"6 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-05-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114948540","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Security of Tenure in the Private Rented Sector in England: Balancing the Competing Property Rights of Landlords and Tenants","authors":"E. Walsh","doi":"10.5040/9781509921409.ch-012","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5040/9781509921409.ch-012","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":114415,"journal":{"name":"Modern Studies in Property Law","volume":"21 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-05-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126559268","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Re-evaluating Recreational Easements – New Norms for the Twenty-First Century?","authors":"Susan Pascoe","doi":"10.5040/9781509921409.ch-010","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5040/9781509921409.ch-010","url":null,"abstract":"This book chapter evaluates the underpinnings for the validity of recreational and sporting easements in English law. Recognition of such easements represents a wider functional and progressive approach to easements, incorporating new norms of twenty-first century active lifestyles into what constitutes an easement.","PeriodicalId":114415,"journal":{"name":"Modern Studies in Property Law","volume":"6 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-05-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127962280","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Restating the Architecture of Property","authors":"Henry E. Smith","doi":"10.5040/9781509921409.ch-002","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5040/9781509921409.ch-002","url":null,"abstract":"Property law has proven difficult to restate, with none of the American Law Institute’s previous Restatements coming close to covering the full breadth of this area. In addition to trying to fill this gap, those working on the current Fourth Restatement aim to capture the architecture of property. In the terms of complex systems theory, a Restatement should reflect the arrangement and interactions, the groupings, and the coherence (sometimes) of property law, rather than treating it as a heap of full detachable rules and components. Conventional strong versions of the bundle of rights picture of property, reinforced by the nature of the Restatement process, make it difficult to address property as a complex system. Using examples of possession and the property torts, the paper shows how a Restatement can begin to incorporate property’s architecture and why it matters to the operation and the development of the law.","PeriodicalId":114415,"journal":{"name":"Modern Studies in Property Law","volume":"45 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-02-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124948920","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"How is the Fit? The Regulation of Mortgages as Enduring Property Relationships","authors":"S. Nield","doi":"10.5040/9781509921409.ch-014","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5040/9781509921409.ch-014","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":114415,"journal":{"name":"Modern Studies in Property Law","volume":"20 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125850450","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Defending Property: Self-help Remedies, the Use of Force, and the Concept of a Property Right","authors":"R. Hickey","doi":"10.5040/9781509921409.ch-004","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5040/9781509921409.ch-004","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":114415,"journal":{"name":"Modern Studies in Property Law","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128922350","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Trusts and Legal Transplants: Lessons from Japan","authors":"James C. Fisher","doi":"10.5040/9781509921409.ch-019","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5040/9781509921409.ch-019","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":114415,"journal":{"name":"Modern Studies in Property Law","volume":"2015 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127645786","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Paradox of the Equitable Proprietary Claim","authors":"Scott Agnew, B. Mcfarlane","doi":"10.5040/9781509921409.ch-017","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5040/9781509921409.ch-017","url":null,"abstract":"Equitable property rights can be seen as paradoxical: how can a system based on conscience have developed rights that operate in rem? In Akers v Samba Financial Group, for example, Lord Sumption states that that ‘an equitable interest possesses the essential hallmark of any right in rem’, yet goes on to say that when an asset subject to an equitable interest is transferred to a third party, ‘the question becomes whether the conscience of the transferee is affected’. Our aim here is to resolve this paradox, at least in relation to rights under a trust. Where T holds on trust for B, we argue that conscience is crucial when considering how and when B may make an equitable proprietary claim against C, a successor in title to the original trustee. Such a claim can only be made in relation to property which is held by C at a point in time when C’s conscience is affected by knowledge of the initial trust relationship between T and B, in such a way as to subject C to a duty to B. In other words, the proprietary effect of the trust is based squarely on an initial relationship between B and T, and a later, similar relationship between B and C, rather than any abstract, depersonalised interest of B. The resolution of the paradox depends on accepting that, when B’s beneficial interest is described as proprietary, ‘proprietary’ must be understood in a special, limited sense. The key to Lord Sumption’s observation in Akers is the particular, and idiosyncratic, sense in which his Lordship used the term ‘in rem’, defining the essential hallmark of such a right as being that it is ‘good against third parties into whose hands the property or its traceable proceeds may have come, subject to the rules of equity for the protection of bona fide purchasers for value without notice’. We agree that the ability to affect C is what justifies regarding a beneficial interest under a trust as more than a mere personal right. It is possible to recognise that a beneficial interest has such an effect whilst also distinguishing it from rights, such as a legal","PeriodicalId":114415,"journal":{"name":"Modern Studies in Property Law","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131278885","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"‘Judges are Human, Not Many People Know That’: The Travails of the First Instance Judge","authors":"Her Honour Judge Karen Walden-Smith","doi":"10.5040/9781509921409.ch-003","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5040/9781509921409.ch-003","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":114415,"journal":{"name":"Modern Studies in Property Law","volume":"198 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130971835","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Proprietary Nature of Title-based Financing Interests","authors":"Magda E Raczynska","doi":"10.5040/9781509921409.CH-008","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5040/9781509921409.CH-008","url":null,"abstract":"The recent work on secured transactions, conducted separately by two expert groups, the Secured Transactions Law Reform Project and the City of London Law Society, makes it clear there is a case for reform in this area. While a consensus exists in relation to a number of aspects of the future regime, one unresolved debate concerns the legal relationships arising through retention-of-title clauses in contracts of sale, hire-purchase and lease agreements and their variants such as lease-back or buy-back agreements. Their common feature is that an owner of an asset (A) delivers possession of the asset to another – the buyer, lessee or the hirer (B) whilst retaining ownership of the asset. Such relationships are often used functionally as security interests because they enable B to raise finance (typically, to acquire goods on credit) from A while protecting A from the credit risk through the retention of ownership. The interests created in A through contracts of sale with retention-of-title clauses, hirepurchase and finance lease agreements will be referred to in this chapter as ‘title-based financing interests’. The functional similarity between such interests and security interests has led to a debate as to whether title-based financing interests ought to be governed by rules similar to those that apply to security interests. English law has traditionally resisted functionalism in favour of a more conceptual approach. One of the arguments against regulating title-based financing interests in a way similar to security interests is that the former are created through retention of a right A already has, not a grant of a new property right by B in favour of A. But this does not say much about nature of A’s interest. In discussion on the future of the law, it would be helpful to gain a better understanding of the right that A obtains. This chapter contributes to this understanding. In so doing, it also hopes to cast new light on the list of property rights in English law. While the list may generally be closed (numerus clausus), this papers seeks to make a case, based on the current law, for the recognition of a new type of property right. The purpose of this chapter is to examine the proprietary nature of title-based financing interests and their place in property law. It explores whether title-based financing interests confer as much protection on the owner as absolute ownership, i.e., whether it is correct to say that A simply retains title to an asset, so no new property right is involved. If a new form of property right is created, which is distinct from ownership, but has not been granted by B to A, it is necessary to consider whether the law regulates it appropriately, taking into account the interests of third parties on whom the right impacts. The chapter does not seek to debate the","PeriodicalId":114415,"journal":{"name":"Modern Studies in Property Law","volume":"129 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133418460","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}