A-Z Subject List: Key Legal Treatises and Textbooks

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This book explores and explains the variety of different property rights that exist in Canadian law, the ways in which property rights can be created or transferred to others, and the resolution of disputes between people who claim competing property rights to the same thing.

Ziff’s Principles of Property Law provides an overview of the law of real and personal property as found in the common law jurisdictions of Canada. Starting with an examination of the meaning of property, the justifications for private entitlements, and the history and social importance of the idea of property, the text presents the foundations upon which the elaborate structure of property law doctrine has been built.

Highlights of the fifth edition include perspectives on racialized property, relational approaches in property theory and Indigenous law and Indigenous legal traditions as a source of law in Canada; a new section on disputes focusing on the doctrine of “tree trespass”; new content on the law and maxims of equity; and new materials on limits to proprietary freedom.

This book provides an introduction to the basic concepts used in common law jurisdictions in determining rights, claims, and obligations in real property.

This examination of the general principles of real property law includes the most recent case law and statutes, with an expansive review of estates, trusts, mortgages

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