Property Law (including Transfer of Property Act and Easement Act)

Kannur University · LL.B. Semester 4 · CP 17

Unit I

Concept of property · different kinds of property · Movable and Immovable property · Notice · Transfer of property · property which cannot be transferred · operation of transfer · Rule against inalienability · rule against repugnant conditions · transfer to unborn persons · rule against perpetuity and accumulation · conditional transfers · conditions precedent and subsequent · vested and contingent interest · doctrine of election

Unit II

Rule of apportionment · Covenants running with land · rule in Tulk v. Moxhay · transfer by ostensible owner · rule of feeding grant by estoppel · co-ownership · improvement by bonafide holder · fraudulent transfer · Doctrines of lis pendens and part performance

Unit III

Mortgage · various kinds of mortgages · charge · floating charge

Unit IV

Sale and exchange · Sale and agreement to sell · rights and liabilities of seller and buyer · Lease · Rights and liabilities of lessor and lessee · Gift · conditions for valid gifts · actionable claim

Unit V

Easement · Definition · classification · characteristic features · modes of acquisition · prescriptions · extinction and licence · quasi-easement · easement of necessity