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Man’s dependence on land. Man/land relationships within physical, economic and institutional frameworks. Importance and nature of decision-making. Descriptive models of decision-making units (‘proprietary’ and ‘social’). Proprietary decisions: goals and motive; criteria for evaluation constraints; households and firms location decision. Development decision-making processes: landowners, developers, and planners. Finance for development; financial institutions. Cost/benefit analysis as an aid to land use decision-making. Relation between proprietary land units: superior, inferior relationships, neighbours, successors. Conflicts between proprietary and social interests; pollution – types of problems and approaches to control. Outline of selected aspects of land policies in Nigeria and elsewhere. Variety of policy frameworks within which land use decision are taken. Land policy and land reform. Land use planning machinery. Rural and agricultural policy. Analysis of land use decisions and problems of land use planning in Nigeria. 300 Level Estate Management

Introduction to the theory of land surveying, Elementary land surveying methods, Chain and tape, prismatic compass, plane table surveying, levelling and production of site plans. Evaluation of technical reports. Identification and solutions to various plane surveying problems Law 208: Land Law (2 Units C: LH 30) Learning Outcomes At the end of this course students will be able to: 1. distinguish between proprietary and personal interests and its relevance to land law; 2. distinguish between freehold and leasehold estates, legal and equitable interests in land; 3. explain Trusts of Land with particular reference to co-ownership of the family home including the holding and management of co-owned land, 4. explain legal and equitable formalities for the creation and disposition of estates and interests in land; 5. explain the concept of priority of interests in registered land; and 6. discuss Commercial interests including mortgages, easements and covenants. Course Contents Introduction to basic concepts: Trusts of Land, freehold and leasehold estates, legal and equitable interests. priority of interests in land, mortgages, easements and covenants. Sources of Nigerian land law, classification and types of property, ownership and possession, real property, customary land law; Nature of title to land under customary law. Nature and management of community land. Industrial rights in community land. Creation and determination of family property under customary law.

Definitions. Measurement of distances. Ise of minor instruments. Random errors. Chain surveying. Bearing of lines. Levelling. Topographic surveys. Traversing. Theodolite traversing. Plane table surveying. Triangulation. Land shaping and earthwork. Map reading. Photogrammetry. Aerial photography. Geographical Information System.

Methods and applications of land surveying to the building construction industry. The various technologies employed by Professional Land Surveyors in accomplishing their work including levelling. Design and adjustment of surveying instruments, levelling, distant measurement, data collection. Theodolite and compass traversing, Computer-Aided Design (CAD), the Global Positioning System (GPS) and Land Information System (LIS).

Application of different techniques and technologies in land surveying. The uses of common instruments like the quickset, theodolite, plotting of field survey data.

Land Resources. Human settlement and land use in Nigeria. Evolution growth structure and pattern of human settlement. Proprietary land capital and income. Obsolescence and urban renewal. Relocation problems. Economic forces that influence land uses, through succession of land uses and the competition between uses which are evident in the operation of the land market. Economics of land uses in non-market societies. Urban land use and location. Development of the theory of location, economics of location. Land uses and land values, patterns of urban land use. Man-land relationship. Economic and legal concept of land. Rural and urban land uses and theory of allocation. Population pressure and supply and demand for land resources. Urban growth theories: theory of highest and best uses, competition and competing uses. Proprietary land structure in Nigeria. Economic returns to land resources, property values and real estate market, property rights in land resource’s location of theory and land uses. Acquisition and transfer of rights. Leasehold system. Property market and estate investment. Estate development. Public control of land use. Land reform, reform objective and methods. Capital costs and rental income. Urban transportation: problems involved in traffic congestion. Theories on road pricing. Transport-land use in Nigeria. Conservation of land resources. National land policy: relative instruments and empirical guidance. Taxation of landed property. Urban environmental pollution management. Use of economic criteria in public investment and planning.

Causes and effects of land degradation; deforestation; overgrazing; over cultivation; fire/bush burning; soil erosion; contamination by oil; pesticides and other polyaromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs); Forest decline and soil acidification; Land restoration and reclamation; Plant species selection and planting materials; Nursery and field practices for reforestation/re-vegetation; Watershed management; Ecological succession; Energy and nutrient dynamics of climax communities; Landscape horticulture

Concepts in landscape and environmental design - Basic elements of landscape - Climate and landscape design - Landscape design goals, processes and analytical methods - Landscape construction materials and methods - Planting design - Management of landscape in the context of environmental planning. Current innovation in landscape and environmental design (great green wall project) will be examined.

Introduction to gemmology and gem. Identification, gem species, varieties and formation. Gemstone hardness and wear ability. Guide to gem cutting terms and classification.

Nature of contract: Sources of law, concept of bargain, classification. Formation of contract: offer and acceptance, consideration, intention to create legal relations. Contents of contract: terms, representations exclusion and limiting terms and fundamental breach of terms. Capacity: infants, illiterates, corporations, mental patients and drunken persons. Vitiating elements of a contract: mistake, misrepresentation; duress; illegality and unenforceable contracts. Privity of contract: rules and exceptions. Discharge of contract: by performance, agreement, breach and frustration. Remedies/damages; equitable remedies in outline only, quantum merit claims in quasi contract.