In law,conveyancing is the transfer of legal title of real property from one person to another,or the granting of an encumbrance such as a mortgage or a lien. A typical conveyancing transaction has two major phases:the exchange of contracts and completion.
St Edmund's College is a constituent college of the University of Cambridge in England. Founded in 1896,it is the second-oldest of the four Cambridge colleges oriented to mature students,which accept only students reading for postgraduate degrees or for undergraduate degrees if aged 21 years or older.
The Adams Prize is one of the most prestigious prizes awarded by the University of Cambridge. It is awarded each year by the Faculty of Mathematics at the University of Cambridge and St John's College to a UK-based mathematician for distinguished research in the Mathematical Sciences.
John Alan Hopkins was an English legal academic known for developing Downing College's reputation for law. He was a Fellow of Downing College,Cambridge and an Honorary Fellow of Hughes Hall,Cambridge.
In most Commonwealth countries,a conveyancer is a specialist lawyer who specialises in the legal aspects of buying and selling real property,or conveyancing. A conveyancer can also be a solicitor,licensed conveyancer,or a fellow of the Institute of Legal Executives.
A profit,in the law of real property,is a nonpossessory interest in land similar to the better-known easement,which gives the holder the right to take natural resources such as petroleum,minerals,timber,and wild game from the land of another. Indeed,because of the necessity of allowing access to the land so that resources may be gathered,every profit contains an implied easement for the owner of the profit to enter the other party's land for the purpose of collecting the resources permitted by the profit.
Sir Henry William Rawson Wade was a British academic lawyer,best known for his work on the law of real property and administrative law.
Sir Robert Edgar Megarry,PC,FBA was an eminent British lawyer and judge. Originally a solicitor,he requalified as a barrister and also pursued a parallel career as a legal academic. He later became a High Court judge and served as Vice-Chancellor of the Chancery Division from 1976 to 1981. Afterwards he served as Vice-Chancellor of the Supreme Court from 1982 until his retirement in 1985.
Sir Malcolm John Grant,,FAcSS is a barrister,academic lawyer,and former law professor. Born and educated in New Zealand,he was the ninth President and Provost of University College London –the head as well as principal academic and administrative officer of the university –for over a decade from 2003 until 2013. He then served for 7 years as chairman of NHS England. He has published extensively in planning and environmental law,and local government law,including serving for 23 years (1981–2004) as the editor of the 8 loose leaf volume Encyclopaedia of Planning Law and Practice of which he remains a consultant editor.
The Law of Property Act 1925 is a statute of the United Kingdom Parliament. It forms part of an interrelated programme of legislation introduced by Lord Chancellor Lord Birkenhead between 1922 and 1925. The programme was intended to modernise the English law of real property. The Act deals principally with the transfer of freehold or leasehold land by deed.
William Hughes,was a British writer on law and angling in the 19th century.
The Law Reform Committee was a committee in England and Wales appointed by the Lord Chancellor "to consider,having regard especially to judicial decisions,what changes are desirable in such legal doctrines as the Lord Chancellor may from time to time refer to Committee".
Eva Zofia Lomnicka is a Professor of Law at King's College London School of Law. She contributes to a number of leading texts and is an expert on the law of consumer credit and financial services law more generally. She has been appointed Queen’s Counsel Honoris Causa in 2020 and retired as a Barrister from Lincoln’s Inn.
Hunter v Moss [1994] 1 WLR 452 is an English trusts law case from the Court of Appeal concerning the certainty of subject matter necessary to form a trust. Moss promised Hunter 50 shares in his company as part of an employment contract,but failed to provide them. Hunter brought a claim against Moss for them,arguing that Moss's promise had created a trust over those 50 shares. The constitution of trusts normally requires that trust property be segregated from non-trust property for the trust to be valid,as in Re London Wine Co (Shippers) Ltd. On this occasion,however,both Colin Rimer in the High Court of Justice and Dillon,Mann and Hirst LJJ in the Court of Appeal felt that,because this case dealt with intangible rather than tangible property,this rule did not have to be applied. Because all the shares were identical,it did not matter that they were not segregated,and the trust was valid. The decision was applied in Re Harvard Securities,creating a rule that segregation is not always necessary when the trust concerns intangible,identical property.
Gareth Hywel Jones,QC,FBA was a British academic and longtime fellow of Trinity College,Cambridge,and Professor of Law at the University of Cambridge.
The Administration of Justice Act 1977 is an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom.
The Trustee Act 1925 is an Act of Parliament of the United Kingdom passed on 9 April 1925,which codified and updated the regulation of trustees' powers and appointment. It accompanied the land reform legislation of the 1920s. It came into effect on 1 January 1926.
The Thomas Bond Sprague Prize is a prize awarded annually to the student or students showing the greatest distinction in actuarial science,finance,insurance,mathematics of operational research,probability,risk and statistics in the Master of Mathematics/Master of Advanced Studies examinations of the University of Cambridge,also known as Part III of the Mathematical Tripos. The prize is named after Thomas Bond Sprague,the only person to have been president of both the Institute of Actuaries in London and the Faculty of Actuaries in Edinburgh. It is awarded by the Rollo Davidson Trust of Churchill College,Cambridge,following a donation by D. O. Forfar,MA,FFA,FRSE,former Appointed Actuary of Scottish Widows.
Joshua Williams (1813–1881) was an English barrister,with a reputation made as a legal author in the field of property law.
