Land Law (LAW 301) exam notes. These notes cover the following topics:
- General concepts
- Four types of estate in land:
- Legal vs equitable interests in land
- Three conveyancing systems
- Adverse possession
- Competing equitable interests in land
- Indefeasibility
- LTA provisions
- Deferred vs immediate indefeasibility
- Manifest injustice
- Fraud
- Statutory exceptions to indefeasibility
- In personam claims
- Compensation
- Caveats
- Extinguishing a caveat
- Airspace
- Subsoil, minerals, and water
- Subsoil
- Minerals
- Water
- Fixtures
- Maori land and land tenure
- Colonisation and Maori land
- Te Ture Whenua Maori Act
- Customary title claims
- Title to beds of water bodies
- Riverbeds
- Lake beds
- The foreshore
- Bed of the sea
- Land and water boundaries
- Mortgages
- Three essential elements
- Indefeasibility
- Order of priorities
- Equitable mortgages
- Implied covenants, conditions, and powers
- Mortgagor’s right to redeem
- The equity of redemption
- Mortgagee’s remedies
- Procedural requirements
- Acceleration clauses
- In personam remedy
- Power of sale remedy
- Mortgagee’s duties
- Easements
- Terminology
- Essential characteristics of easements
- Types of easements
- Creation of easements
- Modification and extinguishment of easements
- Remedies for disturbances of easements
- Covenants
- Terminology
- Interpretation of covenants
- Enforcement of covenants
- Modification and extinguishment of covenants
- Remedies
- Leases
- Terminology
- Requirements of a lease agreement
- Essential elements of a lease
- Types of leases
- Creation of a lease
- Rights and obligations of lessor
- Rights and obligations of lessee
- Mutual stipulations
- Renewal and extension
- Subleases
- Remedies
- Joint tenancy
- The four unities
- Determination (ending) of joint tenancy
- Tenancy in common
- Joint tenancy vs tenancy in common
- Creation of tenancy in common
- Determination (ending) tenancy in common
- Company lease schemes
- Cross-lease tenancy in common schemes
- Disadvantages of cross-lease
- Advantages of cross-lease
- Converting cross-lease to fee simple title
- Unit Titles Act schemes
- Unit Titles Act 1972/2010
- Stratum estates
- Procedure
- Unit Titles Act 2010 (new features)
- Dispute Resolution
- Cancellation
- Timeshares
- Retirement Villages
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