Conveyancing 2019

This is the 21st volume in the series and it offers a full and authoritative account of conveyancing law and practice during the year 2019. As usual the coverage includes:

• all reported cases
• all statutory developments
• much other material of interest to practitioners

The authors analyse court decisions on topics such as missives of sale; tenements; real burdens (including their variation by the Lands Tribunal); servitudes; wayleaves; competition of title; land registration; searches; leases; standard securities; boundaries and positive prescription; and neighbour law. Particular attention is given to the validity of maintenance burdens for amenity ground; whether and when a court order is needed for evictions;  the drafting of servitudes; the implication of ancillary rights into servitudes; the enforceability of pre-2004 real burdens; sales at an undervalue; rights of pre-emption; unseen inhibitions; tenement repairs; and rectifying errors made on first registration. The book concludes with an update by Alan Barr on property taxes, with a particular focus on the developing case law on land and buildings transaction tax.

Written in a clear, direct style, Conveyancing 2019 is an essential guide for practitioners to this fast-moving area of law.