Property Law

This book provides a succinct introduction to the basic concepts used in common law jurisdictions in determining rights, claims, and obligations in real property.

This text examines leading case law and relevant statutes for each stage of the real estate transaction including signing the listing agreement, negotiating the agreement of purchase and sale, submitting requisitions, closing the transaction, and the document registration procedure under electronic registration.

This text explains the variety of different property rights that exist in Canadian law, the ways in which property rights can be created or transferred to others, and the resolution of disputes between people who claim competing property rights to the same thing.

This book introduces the fundamentals of Canadian property law. Incorporating edited cases, scholarship, and journalism, it provides a foundation in the common law basics and jurisdictional legislative variations while exploring important contemporary issues.

Highlights of the fifth edition include perspectives on racialized property, relational approaches in property theory and Indigenous law and Indigenous legal traditions as a source of law in Canada; a new section on disputes focusing on the doctrine of “tree trespass”; new content on the law and maxims of equity; and new materials on limits to proprietary freedom.