“The surest way to deprive a peasant of his land is to give him a secure title and make it freely negotiable.” R Schickele 1962, cited in Tim Hanstad, “Designing Land Registration Systems for Developing Countries” Am. U. Int’l L. Rev. 13 (1997) ...

The first quality which should be present in any commercial property lease is synergy between the purposes permitted under the terms of the lease, (or that for which it has been used for ten years), and the planning permission which ...

This article will explain and assess the partisanism and political strategies surrounding the legislative processes, debate, and the enactment of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act of 2010. For more than one hundred years, health care has provided the ...

Law enforcement is any mechanism by which certain members of society behave in an organized way to implement the law by finding, dissuading, rehabilitating, or punishing individuals who breach the laws and norms that govern that community. Discretion relates to ...

Both the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and the Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP) required publicly owned companies to disclose relevant business and financial information to the SEC, investors, creditors and buyers. The information to be disclosed includes, but it ...

The system of land charge registration was introduced by the Land Charges Act 1925 and has since been codified in the Land Charges Act 1972. As mentioned previously, the scheme of Land Charges Registration was designed to replace the pre-1926 position where equitable rights in ...

As noted before , proprietary rights/interests (i.e. rights in rem) are rights over land which are capable of affecting third parties. Here we discuss the circumstances in which a right in rem over an unregistered freehold estate in land will bind a transferee (i.e. a purchaser or ...

Unregistered land is title is not recorded in an official register. Registered land, on the other hand, is land to which title is registered formally on the Land Registry. The number of registered houses is growing, making the law on unregistered land ...

The Emancipation Proclamation of 1863 officially freed African Americans within rebel states. After the end of the Civil war, the Thirteenth Amendment emancipated all slaves. Politicians now faced the daunting task of bringing together a divided country. Under President Andrew ...

The USA FREEDOM Act of 2014 bans the bulk collection of Americans’ private records.  This bill enacts significant reforms to the surveillance authorities that the government has used to justify collecting Americans’ telephone records and Internet metadata in bulk. ...