Bar Part I Land Law study plan

Distinguish ownership, co-ownership (joint tenancy versus tenancy in common) and mere possession, and state which incidents of title each carries

Outline the steps in a sale of land from contract to completion, listing what must be in writing and when risk and beneficial ownership pass

Compare the formalities and effects of transfer by gift and by inheritance, including who bears the burden of proving donative intent

Explain how co-owned land may be severed, partitioned or sold, and who may compel each remedy

Classify leases by duration (fixed term, periodic, tenancy at will, tenancy at sufferance) and state how each is created and ended

Apply the tests for a lease as against a licence, identifying exclusive possession, rent and intention

Explain the landlord's and tenant's core obligations, including repair, quiet enjoyment and rent payment, and the remedies for breach of each

Describe how leases are assigned and sublet and what consent requirements typically apply

Define land in its physical and legal senses, including fixtures, and state the tests for whether an item has become a fixture

List the estates and interests capable of existing in land and rank them by duration and enforceability

Compare registration-of-title and recording systems, stating what each protects and how priority between competing dealings is decided

Identify the categories of overriding or unregistered interests that bind a purchaser despite absence from the register

Explain the role of notice, actual, constructive and imputed, in priority disputes

Explain how a mortgage is created, what rights the mortgagor retains and what remedies the mortgagee has on default, in the order they arise

Distinguish mortgages from charges and liens and state the effect of registration on each

Classify easements, profits a prendre and covenants, and state the four characteristics of an easement

Apply the rules on creation of easements and covenants by express grant, implication and prescription

Explain when the burden of a covenant runs with the land and what remedies are available against successors

State the elements of adverse possession and of prescription, and how the two differ in their starting point and effect

Explain how limitation periods operate against private owners and against state or communal land, and what interrupts time running

Distinguish customary tenure from statutory tenure, identifying who may hold land under each and how rights are proved

Describe how customary rights are converted, extinguished or protected on registration or compulsory acquisition

Explain the position of family, communal and group rights on dealings with the land

Outline the compulsory acquisition process from notice through inquiry to award and compensation, and state what heads of compensation are recoverable

Identify the grounds on which an acquisition or a planning decision may be challenged

Match each land dispute type to its remedy, including specific performance, injunction, declaration, damages and possession claims

Describe the procedural steps and time limits for bringing a land claim and for appealing a decision

Apply the core ethical duties of competence, confidentiality and avoidance of conflicts to a land transaction scenario

Redo priority problems involving unregistered interests, overreaching and fraud on the register without referring to notes

Re-derive the running of covenants at law and in equity from first principles and check against your table

Explain how registration affects the enforceability of mortgages, easements and covenants against a later purchaser

Identify the three most common errors you made in weeks 3 to 6 and write the corrected rule for each

Answer a full mixed-topic problem under timed conditions covering at least three domains

State from memory the defining rule for each of the eleven domains in a single page

Review your error log and confirm each listed rule can be applied without prompts

Identify two domains where your accuracy is still weakest and schedule targeted revision for each