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Legal theorising on property law is impoverished by the juristic apathy to the study of land law. This article shows that property law is shot through with irreconcilable ideological differences and that there are principles and counter-principles pulling at different directions.

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This article shows the utility of critical legal studies to legal theorising on the nature of property in land.

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The three types of legal reasoning - propositional facts, analogy and policy considerations - were applied in the analysis of Williams & Glyn's Bank Ltd v Boland and City of London Building Society v Flegg to dispel lingering doubts about the relevance of critical legal studies to property in land.

Professor Solomon E Salako
Liverpool Hope University

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This page is a summary of: A Critical Legal Study of property in land, Liverpool Law Review, January 1991, Springer Science + Business Media,
DOI: 10.1007/bf01079303.
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