Duhaime's Canadian Real-Estate Law Centre

• History of Real Estate Law: The Old English Landholding System ... who we have to blame for this mess.
• Fee simple ... NOT! Fee Simple Estates and Life Estates ... do you really want to know this stuff?
• Qualified, Conditional Ownership ... real-estate short of a full deck.
• The Rule Against Perpetuities ... must vest ... if at all ... within the perpetuity period ... huh?!
• Air, Water and Subsurface Rights ... ya' own it from the heavens to the centre of the Earth; well, not quite.
• Easements & Covenants ... you have a right-of-way to visit this page.
• Joint And Common Tenancies ... if you're going to entangle yourself ....
• Adverse Possession ... get them damn hippies off my land!
• The Real Estate Purchase Contract: Caveat emptor, emptor, emptor ... may the illiterate be forewarned.

Practise Makes Perfect

• British Columbia Real Estate Law ... BC land/legal peculiarities.

Indispensable Tools

• Case Law: Canadian Real-Estate law ... the judges speak!
• Glossary of Canadian Real-Estate Terms ... add percolating water to a surreal incorporeal indefeasible heritament tenement and then run like hell!

Half-baked "Owners": Residential Tenancies

• Residential Tenancy Law In British Columbia ... temporary "owners".

This is the home page of Canadian real-estate law, a three-month project first written in January 1997, and an important part of duhaime.org legal information web site.

It is a collection of plain-language and basic law pages on the topics of greatest concern to real-estate buyers, sellers and real-estate agents; not for lawyers but for you, Joe and Josephine Public.

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