Explore a curated selection of resources to support your research on Australian property law and conveyancing topics.
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Check legal dictionaries to help with your understanding of unfamiliar terminology and jargon used in property and conveyancing law.
Use legal encyclopedias for brief overviews of property law and conveyancing concepts, and references to key case law and/or legislative provisions. See the legal encyclopedias section for help with using these products.
Use Library Search to keyword search for books on property and conveyancing law topics or start with the subjects Real Property - Queensland, Real Property - Australia or Land Tenure - Law and Legislation - Australia.
Key titles are shown below.
Commentary services (also known as looseleaf or reporters) provide analysis of fields of law, including commentary on key legislative provisions and cases. The below law database products contain commentary on property and conveyancing law issues. Westlaw Australia also contains various property law products for other Australian states. See the commentary section for help with using commentary products.
Also see Part 8 - Housing in the below Lawyers Practice Manual Queensland.
Scholarly law journal articles are authored by legal experts and are grounded in research and theory. They provide in-depth analysis on specialised topics for an academic or professional audience. Use the resources mentioned earlier in this guide to search for journal articles on property and conveyancing law topics. Key journals for this area are shown below.
Explore property and conveyancing law information in Lexis+ Australia:
Lexis Practical Guidance modules provide guidance notes, commentary practice tips, legislation, legal precedents, cases, tools, forms and checklists etc.The below modules provide information relevant to property and conveyancing law.
The below guide demonstrates how to navigate and find information in Practical Guidance generally.
Identify key legislative provisions and leading cases using the secondary sources mentioned above.
For help with locating and researching cases see Australian case law earlier in this guide, particularly Cases on a legal issue/topic for strategies to find Australian case law on a specific subject area.
Use the below Westlaw Australia Key Number System headings to browse cases by property and conveyancing law topics.
The below specialist law report series publish Australian property and conveyancing law cases:
Unreported property and conveyancing law cases are available via Westlaw Australia and Lexis+ Australia, as well as the following sources:
For general help with locating and researching legislation see Australian legislation earlier in this guide.
LawNow Legislation in Lexis+ Australia lists Acts by subject, including property and conveyancing law, however it also includes some repealed legislation. Refer to the below headings:
Explore these websites for additional resources on property and conveyancing law issues.
