Land Law

The UK land law is concerned with legal relationships, which can be complex, e.g. different persons may have competing interests in certain land, which they may all claim that they own all of or some part of the land. It is those interests, which they claim, may have a legal or equitable status.

Land law is concerned with calculating and determining those persons shares in the land, as well as their status. Third parties may also have legal relationships with the "owners" of the land.

Third party interests in the land can be as diverse as having access to the land by right of way, the rights of a bank conferred by a mortgage over the land, or the right of a neighbour to restrain the landowner from using the land for certain purposes. To further complicate, the landowner may allow a person to occupy all or part of the land, a relationship that may be through the way of a licence or lease.

Finally land law is also concerned with how each of these interests is protected, whether the interest is a third party or as an owner, when the land is to be sold.