Principles of property law

Cases and statutory law are updated and the material reorganized; conforms with modern law school courses in real property. Chapters open with brief outlines of the law encompassed within, providing an overview of rules in that area. This is followed by a series of factually-based problems designed to generate thoughts about how these rules could be applied in real life situations. Chapters then discuss statements of applicable law and analysis of legal issues raised, plus likely outcomes and current citations of the various laws.*

Contents

• Personal property : rights of some possessors

• Bailments

• Gifts, including bank accounts

• Rights of possessors of land, including adverse possession

• Classifying possessory estates

• Classifying future interests

• Special rules governing future interests

• Marital and concurrent estates

• Landlord and tenant law

• Servitudes : easements, covenants, equitable servitudes

• Nuisance

• Legislative control over land use : zoning, the takings clause, and housing discrimination

• Cooperatives, condominiums and homeowners associations

• Seller and buyer : the land sale contract

• The evolution of the modern deed

• Conveyancing by deed

• Assurance of title.