First Year: Property Law

This course introduces students to the basic concepts needed for understanding the common law of property. We begin by asking what lawyers mean by the word 'property', and by looking at why and how the common law categorises some ‘things’ as property and not others. We then examine the links between possession and ownership, and at how interests in land are arranged (estates in land, concurrent ownership, servitudes). There are also sections on de facto expropriation, aboriginal title, and landlord-tenant relations.