ABSTRACT
Property law today is built on foundations laid by a series of Acts of Parliament compendiously called ‘the 1925 legislation’. Those Acts carried out a wholesale reform of the law, turning what was, in many ways, still a feudal system of land tenure into something more appropriate for a modern industrial society. On the other hand, the reform was effected more by evolution than by revolution. The legislators did not demolish and rebuild from scratch. They proceeded instead thoroughly to refurbish the old law, so that many parts are visibly the same as, and yet substantially different from, what went before.
