First Year: Property Law (LAW103H1F)

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 conceives of some things as property. We then examine the links between possession and ownership, andhow interests in land are arranged (estates in land, concurrent ownership, servitudes). There are also sections on de facto expropriation, aboriginal title and the allocation of rights of occupation on reserve land, and landlord-tenant relations.