Australian real property law

Adrian J. Bradbrook

The fifth edition of this work remains a succinct, comprehensible and comprehensive statement of Australian real property law. Its basic structure covers the nature of real property, obtaining title to land, land dealings, management and divided ownership and neighbour relations. For this edition, the chapters have been reordered and restructured - possession has considered as part of title to land; public lands have been combined with land rights of indigenous persons; mortgages have been brought within land title; and co-ownership dealt within one chapter. Strata and community title (which can be used for all forms of land use) has been taken from housing to the management chapter, and housing extended to include residential parks and rooming houses. Since the last edition, decisions of Australian courts have considered issues as diverse as priorities of unregistered interests, the...