Analyses the effects of the 1996 form of contract for Sale of Land and the Conveyancing (Sale of Land) 1995 Regulations on conveyancing law and practice. Also examines "inter alia", the issues arising from the decisions of the Supreme Court of NSW. Author from University of Sydney.

The aim of the book is to provide an account of the law of New Zealand relating to the sale of land. Such a contract is governed by the general law of contract, as is any other contract whatever its subject matter. The author has endeavoured to state the law in this book within a reasonable compass while including some discussion of the major subject areas which commonly arise. This is a matter of balance and individual judgment and others may disagree with the decisions I have made. Some areas of contract law, though applicable, arise infrequently in the present context and the law which applies is both no different from that applicable to any other form of contract and is fully discussed elsewhere in the New Zealand literature. On that basis, this book does not discuss areas such as illegality or mistake. Other matters, though also of general application, arise more frequently; in those cases, though there is full discussion elsewhere, the author thought it desirable to set out, albeit briefly, the principal tenets of the area. This accounts for the treatment of such matters as agency, misrepresentation, contract formation, and aspects of remedies. Other matters, such as title or settlement, are particular to this form of contact and require full discussion.

Property Rights in Land widens our understanding of property rights by looking through the lenses of social history and sociology, discussing mainstream theory of new institutional economics and the derived grand narrative of economic development. Written by a collection of expert authors, the chapters delve into social processes through which property relations became institutionalized and were used in social action for the appropriation of resources and rent. This was in order to gain a better understanding of the social processes intervening between the institutionalized ‘rules of the game’ and their economic and social outcomes.

Without the theft of indigenous groups' lands and the exploitation of African slave labor, whites would not currently own over 95 percent of land in the U.S. Due to the forced assimilation to European religious beliefs and customs, many indigenous and former slaves compromised their native beliefs to appease European settlers. Unfortunately, the new way of life led to the five "civilized" tribes owning slaves and some former slaves joining the military to fight against tribal groups after the Civil War. As more Europeans populated the United States, the adoption of English common law beliefs of statehood and demarcation of land created our current property laws, thus replacing indigenous and African beliefs of communal living. U.S. property law was written strategically to provide land protection for whites and equip future generations to continue the European legacy of stealing land from indigenous and black landowners. Due to the history of land theft and property laws Whites now own over 95 percent of U.S. land. White Land Theft explores the history of European settlement in the Plain States and the present-day land loss of both exploited communities. Hishaw's recommendations of land reparations and how to disburse it, along with legal analysis related to tax credits, are backed up by industry interviews and her 15 years of professional experience. White Land Theft is a factual justification for land reparations supported by extensive research.

In 1790, America was in enormous debt, having depleted what little money and supplies the country had during its victorious fight for independence. Before the nation's greatest asset, the land west of the Ohio River, could be sold it had to be measured out and mapped. And before that could be done, a uniform set of measurements had to be chosen for the new republic out of the morass of roughly 100,000 different units that were in use in daily life. Measuring America tells the fascinating story of how we ultimately gained the American Customary System—the last traditional system in the world—and how one man's surveying chain indelibly imprinted its dimensions on the land, on cities, and on our culture from coast to coast.