Dallas: Appealed to the Court of Appeals for the Second District of Texas, at Fort Worth, Texas. 2014. — 1658 p. Identity of parties and counsel. Table of authorities. Disputed statement of facts. Summary of argument. Argument and authority. Conclusion and prayer. Sertificate of service. Sertificate of compilianse with Rule 9.4.
New York: Routledge-Cavendish, 2007. — 325 p. But two caveats have to be entered even at this stage of introducing our perambulation. First, this is not intended as a walk around ‘everyday life’ which then moves into a critique of the extent to which ‘law’ adequately, or not, meets the needs and expectations of ‘ordinary people’ (especially, but by no means exclusively, women),...
Oregon: Oxford and Portland. 2007. - 633 p. When setting out I intended to write a book that would embrace the land law of the European Union and property aspects of the European Convention on Human Rights, and even the substantive land laws of European countries. Large enterprises are often driven by a touch of naiveté, and it soon became apparent just how vast was the seam of...
Oregon: Oxford and Portland, 2003. — 983 p. This new edition comes after only four years but it is not a case of “the paper never refusing the ink”. A sentence by sentence rewriting has been required to accommodate the seismic changes of the Land Registration Act 2002, 4 not to mention commonholds, the explosion of human rights jurisprudence and the remorseless grind of the...
New York. Butterworth-Heinemann is an imprint of Elsevier. 2011. - 439 p. Any society quickly finds that it needs rules or laws to enable it to function smoothly. Consider the results if you had decided to drive to work today on the right instead of the left. People need to be able to live and go about their business in certainty, knowing that they can expect others to abide by...
New York: Cambridge University Press, 2006. — 483 p. As editor, I have been ably assisted in the preparation of this volume – the first of its kind, we believe, on comparative land use law. Susan Moritz, the research consultant for the Land Use Law Center at Pace University School of Law, provided advice and assistance during the book’s gestation, helping particularly with...
Amsterdam: Leiden University Press, 2008. — 231 p. Since the 1990s there has been a resurgence of interest in lanoriented literature on the subject, and in the implementation of newd tenure reform in Africa, which is reflected in a growing academic and policy land tenure reform policies and programmes and new legislation.
Amsterdam: Leiden University Press, 2009. — 619 p. Millions of people live and work on land that they do not legally own in accordance with enforceable state law. Secure land rights are a basis for household food security and shelter, and provide a safety net in case of unemployment or retirement. The absence of state recognition for local property rights is considered to...
Oregon: Oxford and Portland, 2003. — 316 p. The Land Registration Act 2002 is both a continuation of and an exciting new beginning for title registration in England and Wales. This book is intended, not as a commentary on the new Act, and certainly not as a practitioner’s guide to its operation, but as an academic companion to it. It is quite selective in its scope, and there...
London: Yale University Press, 2007. — 305 p. Many people and institutions helped me write this book. Yale University was very generous. During the research phase of the project, the Beinecke Library at Yale supplied a MacKinnon Family Fellowship in Western Americana, the Howard Lamar Center for the Study of Frontiers and Borders facilitated a full semester of research away...
New York, London: Routledge, 2004. — 253 p. I wish to acknowledge the communities, colleagues, friends, and institutions that, in different stages of my research, gave me their support to design, carry out, and complete this research. Profound gratitude goes to the ejido communities of Ixtaltepec, La Poza, and San Luis Río Colorado that sheltered me, assisted me, and taught me...
Bodmin, Cornwall: M. P. G. Books Ltd, 2007. — 205 p. I am grateful for the opportunity to acknowledge here the assistance and support I received from a number of people. First, I would like to thank Professor Lawrence Friedman. who supervised my doctoral thesis at Stanford Law School and who introduced me to the field of law and society, which now I claim as my academic home.
London: Cavendish Publishing Limited, 2002. — 330 p. Land law holds a certain fascination for the student: usually one of dread. There is no point denying that it is a difficult subject and students face conceptual and practical problems of a kind not found in other branches of the law, none of which is helped by a phalanx of statutory provisions overlaying ancient principles...
London: Cavendish Publishing Limited, 2000. — 255 p. Lawyers still use the word ‘property’ in this abstract sense of ownership. For example, it is often said, in relation to a gift of chattels, that ‘Property passes on delivery’. To the layman, that may appear a truism, but the lawyer understands it to mean that ownership passes at the moment when the item is physically handed...
Hong Kong: Longman Asia, Limited. 1997. - 542 p. There have been the usual developments in the law that one might expect in any jurisdiction, although many of these changes reflect influenses peculiar to Hong Kong. The territory s imminent transition to a Special Administration Region of China is evident, particularly in relation to New Territories land.
Textbook. — Washington DC/The World Bank, 2012. — 168 p. The Land Governance Assessment Framework (LGAF) is a diagnostic tool to help evaluate the legal framework, policies, and practices regarding land governance and to monitor improvement over time.
Cambridge University Press, 2006. — 204 p. Nothing is more important in English land law than ‘possession’. It is the foundation of all title, rights and remedies. But what exactly is it, and why does it still matter? This book is about the meaning, significance and practical effect of the concept of possession in contemporary land law. It explains the different meanings of...
London: Cavendish Publishing Ltd., 2005. — 485 p. Modern Land Law offers a lively and thought-provoking account of a subject that remains at the heart of our legal system. Dispelling any apprehension about the subject’s formidability from the outset, this compact textbook provides an absorbing and exact analysis of all the key legal principles relating to land. An Introduction...
Oxford University Press, 2012. — 1050 p. — ISBN: 0199693595. Land Law: Text, Cases, and Materials has been designed to provide students with everything they need to approach their land law course with confidence. Ready to be used as a stand-alone resource on all land law courses the authors combine stimulating commentary and well-chosen materials to present the subject in an...