3. Freehold ownership

Titles in the Core Text series take the reader straight to the heart of the subject, providing focused, concise, and reliable guides for students at all levels. The primary form of ownership in modern land law is freehold ownership – ownership of an estate in ‘fee simple’. This chapter discusses the following: the ways in which various kinds of fee simple estate may be created, transferred, and terminated; the new form of estate ownership – freehold ownership of ‘commonhold land’ – introduced by the Commonhold and Leasehold Reform Act 2002; and the rules (both at common law and in equity) under which covenants relating to land use may be enforced between owners of freehold estates.