The Idea of property in land -- Critical land law -- Roman ideas of landownership -- The 1925 property legislation: setting contexts -- Evidencing ownership -- The Law commission and the reform of land law -- The Home-owner; citizen of consumer? -- Women and trust(s): portraying the family in the gallery of law -- Citizens and squatters: under the surfaces of land law -- Homelessness -- land law and dispossession: indigenous rights to land in Australia -- Land and post-apartheid reconstruction in South Africa -- Land, law, and the family home -- Europe, the Nation state, and land -- Occupying ]Cheek by Jowl': property issues arising from communal living -- Land and agricultural production -- Real property and its regulation: the community-rights -- Before we begin: five keys to land law -- Informally created interests in land -- Informally created interests in land -- Taking formalities seriously -- Of Estates and interests: a tale of ownership and property rights