ABSTRACT
This chapter examines the kind of rights which affect property and identifies how rights attached to land originate. It describes the different kinds of rights attached to land and shows how to defend, modify or extinguish rights attached to land. The chapter explores other rights affecting land but not attached to it. It deals with most of the rights are landed rights but some, the exceptions, either belong to a person as a matter of law or may be exercised by an individual in the course of a statutory duty, eg the police have powers of entry. A landowner may obtain a right over the land of another by unauthorised use of the land in some way for a specified period. Many statutes give utility companies, statutory undertakers and others the right to compulsorily place a pipe or cable on, under or over land.
