Canadian Property Law — NCA Complete Exam Bundle

The most common failure in the NCA Property Law exam is missing issues. The exam rewards breadth above everything else. Both sample exams instruct candidates to identify relevant uncertainty on the facts and in the law and to consider all plausible arguments and alternative outcomes. Missing a sub-issue costs marks regardless of how well you analyse the issues you did identify.

This bundle builds the issue-spotting reflex first, then gives you the doctrinal frameworks, analytical templates, and practice questions to score marks on every question type.

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STRATEGIC NOTES - 11 topics, all assigned cases, Tier Priority System

Opens with the Master Framework: five property law questions that run against every fact pattern before you write a single sentence of analysis. Who owns what? Is the interest valid? Does it bind third parties? What are the ongoing rights and obligations? What remedies are available? Running these five questions against a fact pattern before writing is what separates candidates who catch every issue from candidates who miss half of them.

Includes a Tier Priority System ranking all 11 topics by exam frequency across both released sample exams.

Tier 1 topics appear on every exam: will interpretation and common law estates, conditional transfers and the Rule Against Perpetuities, equitable interests and the joint family venture, and boundaries including airspace, subsurface, fixtures, and accretion. Tier 2 topics appear on most exams: servitudes, leases, shared ownership, and Aboriginal title. Both sample exams are fully decoded in the Exam Intelligence section at the front: every question, every sub-issue, every case required, every trap.

Covers every testable topic: estates in fee simple and life estates, waste, and the will interpretation multi-clause analysis. Conditional transfers including the determinable versus condition subsequent distinction, uncertainty, public policy invalidity (Leonard Foundation; McCorkill; Blackburn v McCallum), and the Rule Against Perpetuities: lives in being plus 21 years, the what-if-the-worst-happens test, and when an interest is void. Boundaries: the cuius est solum maxim and its limits, subsurface rights including minerals, the two-part fixtures test (degree of annexation and purpose of annexation), and riparian rights and accretion. Possession: finders (Parker v British Airways framework), gifts inter vivos and the delivery requirement, bailment and sub-bailment duties. Indigenous rights: Aboriginal title proof and content (Tsilhqot'in Nation v BC), the duty to consult spectrum, and Indian Act reserves. Equitable interests: the Statute of Uses, express and resulting trusts (Pecore), and remedial constructive trust through the joint family venture framework (Kerr v Baranow). Servitudes: the four easement requirements (Ellenborough Park), Harris v Flower scope limitation, restrictive covenants running with land (Tulk v Moxhay), the Canadian rule on positive covenants (Durham), and profits à prendre. Leases: lease versus licence (Street v Mountford), Spencer's Case and which covenants run, assignment versus sublease (Richfield), and the three Highway Properties remedies on tenant repudiation. Shared ownership: the four unities of joint tenancy, methods of severance, co-owner rights to possession of the whole, and partition and sale. Priorities and registration: the four common law priority contests and the bona fide purchaser for value without notice rule, deeds registration systems, Torrens title and immediate indefeasibility, the fraud exception, and the curtain principle.

EXAM TEMPLATES - 32 IRAC templates

Every template includes the precise legal test and required case names pre-loaded. Your job is to identify which template applies from the USE WHEN trigger, fill in the placeholders with the parties and facts, and add the factual deployment sentences that earn marks.

Includes Template 7 (Rule Against Perpetuities: lives in being, worst case analysis, void or valid), Template 9 (cuius est solum: airspace and subsurface scope), Template 10 (fixtures two-part test: degree of annexation and purpose of annexation applied to the specific object in the fact pattern), Template 21 (remedial constructive trust: unjust enrichment, Kerr v Baranow JFV, proportionate share), Template 28 (assignment versus sublease: Spencer's Case covenants running, Richfield landlord consent), Template 29 (Highway Properties three remedies on repudiation), Template 31 (priorities: four common law contests and bona fide purchaser without notice), and Template 32 (Torrens title: immediate indefeasibility, fraud exception, unregistered interest holder).

PRACTICE Q&A - 12 full-length questions

Calibrated to the NCA Property Law sample exam format: open-book, three hours, 100 marks, pass at 50%. Covers every question type the sample exams test: Q1 (will interpretation covering estates, conditions, and Rule Against Perpetuities - 30 marks), Q2 (multi-issue boundaries: accretion, fixtures, finders, easement by necessity - 25 marks), Q3 (joint family venture and remedial constructive trust - 15 marks), Q4 (priorities: common law contests and Torrens indefeasibility - 15 marks), Q5 (Aboriginal title: Tsilhqot'in proof, infringement, duty to consult - 20 marks), Q6 (leases: assignment and sublease, Spencer's Case, Highway Properties remedies - 25 marks), and Q12 (full exam simulation covering will interpretation, boundaries, equitable interests, and priorities - 30 marks). Every question includes an Examiner's Guide identifying every sub-issue and every required case, followed by a full model answer with facts deployed throughout.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Passed all 5 NCA exams in 2025. Preparing for the Ontario Bar. LLM in International Commercial Law, University of Bristol. Litigation experience at Eversheds Sutherland, DWF, and Keoghs in the UK.

REVISED OCTOBER 2025 SYLLABUS

Aligned with the NCA Property Law syllabus revised for October 2025. Based on Ziff's Principles of Property Law, 8th ed. (2023). Includes Annapolis Group Inc v Halifax Regional Municipality 2022 SCC 36, Tsilhqot'in Nation v BC 2014 SCC 44, Kerr v Baranow 2011 SCC 10, and all cases on the October 2025 revised syllabus.

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