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Butterworths for the use of extracts from: The All England Law Reports; Cheshire and Burn's Modern Law of Real Property (15th ed. 1994); Cheshire, Fifoot & Furmston's Law of Contract (13th ed. 1996); Halsbury's Law of England (4th ed.); James Crossley Vaines, Personal Property, 5th ed. (1973); Lord Denning's The Discipline of Law (1979) and K.J. Gray and P.D. Symes, Real Property and Real People (1981); Ivamy, E. R. Hardy, General Principles of Insurance Law (6th ed. 1993); Maudsley & Burn's Land Law: Cases and Materials (7th ed. 1998).
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Sweet & Maxwell for extracts from: Benjamin's Sale of Goods (5th ed 1997); Chitty on Contract (28th ed. 1999); Gale on Easement(16th ed. 1996); Megarry & Wade's Law of Property (5th ed. 1984); David Yates,Exclusion Clauses in Contracts (2nd ed. 1985), Williams' Contract for the Sale of Land and Title to Land (4th ed. 1975); Woodfall's Landlord & Tenant (28th ed. ©1978); the requisites of 'possession' from Jowitt's Dictionary of English Law (2nd ed. 1977); and the definition of 'contractor' from Stroud's Judicial Dictionary (5th ed. 1986).
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