Principles of Private Law: A Custom Publication for the University of New South Wales

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Principles of Private Law
A CUSTOM PUBLICATION FOR
THE UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES
Principles of Private Law
A CUSTOM PUBLICATION FOR
THE UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES
LexisNexis Butterworths
Australia
2018
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Title: Principles of Private Law.
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Publisher’s Note
�is book has been prepared for students undertaking the unit Principles of
Private Law at the University of New South Wales Law School, at the
University of New South Wales.
Details of the source books, original content and other materials from
which some readings are taken are set out in the Table of Contents.
Navigation, Cross-references and
Pagination
�is book has been repaginated for ease of navigation. Readers can �nd the
page numbers for each Reading listed in the Table of Contents. �e order
of the Readings corresponds with the list of Readings in the Table of
Contents. To avoid confusion, the original page numbers found in the
source publications have been removed from each extracted Reading.
�e Reading number appears at the top of each page for easy reference.
�e Readings in this book contain cross-references to material that has
not been extracted from the original publications. When this occurs,
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Acknowledgments
�e authors and publishers are grateful to the holders of copyright in
material from which extracts appear in this work, particularly to the
following:
Kevin Gray and the Cambridge Law Journal for permission to reproduce
material from Kevin Gray, ‘Property in �in Air’ [1991] Cambridge Law
Journal 252;
Lyria Bennet Moses and the Sydney Law Review for permission to
reproduce material from ‘�e Applicability of Property Law in New
Contexts: From Cells to Cyberspace’, (2008) 30 Sydney Law Review
639-647
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Contents
Publisher’s Note
Navigation, Cross-references and Pagination
Acknowledgments
Reading 1

from
Edgeworth, Rossiter, O’Connor & Godwin, Sackville & Neave
Australian Property Law, 10th ed, 2016 Ch 1 ‘The Concept of
Property’ [1.1]–[1.32]
Reading 2

‘Property Law in New Contexts — Introduction’ by Leon Terrill
Reading 3

from
Lyria Bennet Moses, ‘The Applicability of Property Law in New
Contexts: From Cells to Cyberspace’, (2008) 30 Sydney Law Review
639-647 — Extract
Reading 4
from
Edgeworth, Rossiter, O’Connor & Godwin, Sackville & Neave
Australian Property Law, 10th ed, 2016 Ch 1 ‘The Concept of
Property’ [1.38]–[1.49]
Reading 5

from
Edgeworth, Rossiter, O’Connor & Godwin, Sackville & Neave
Australian Property Law, 10th ed, 2016 Ch 1 ‘The Concept of
Property’ [1.67]–[1.74], [1.76]–[1.79]
Reading 6

from
Edgeworth, Rossiter, O’Connor & Godwin, Sackville & Neave
Australian Property Law, 10th ed, 2016 Ch 1 ‘The Concept of
Property’ [1.80C]–[1.102]
Reading 7

from
Gray, Foster, Dorsett & Roberts, Property Law in New South Wales,
4th ed, Ch 2 ‘Land, Fixtures and Chattels’ [2.40]–[2.63], [2.70]
Reading 8

from
Edgeworth, Rossiter, O’Connor & Godwin, Sackville & Neave
Australian Property Law, 10th ed, 2016 Ch 2 ‘Possession and Title’
[2.4]–[2.9]
Reading 9

from
Penfolds Wines Pty Ltd v Elliott (1946) 74 CLR 204 — Extract
Reading 10