Property : examples and explanations

Property: Examples & Explanations, Fifth Edition, is a study aid that offers clear textual introductions to legal terms and concepts in property law, followed by examples and explanations that test and apply the reader’s understanding of the material covered. Both authors have years of experience presenting material in a clear and compelling way.

With its rich pedagogy that features boldfaced legal terms and visual aids, Property: Examples & Explanations fills a niche distinct from other books. The six-part topical organization matches the coverage of most first-year property courses and follows the organization of the best-selling casebook by Dukeminier, Krier, Alexander & Schill. Accomplished authors Barlow Burke and Joseph Snoe assure that the rules and doctrines making up the first year course on the law of property are well covered.*

Contents

• The law of property

• Personal property and first possession

• Law of finders and prior possessors

• Bailments

• Good-faith or bona fide purchasers

• Gifts

• Fixtures

• Adverse possession

• Common law estates and present interests

• Future interests

• Special rules of construction

• The rule against perpetuities

• Concurrent ownership

• Marital property

• The landlord and tenant relationship

• Transfers of the lease

• Waste, duty to repair, destruction of leased premises, and security deposits

• Termination and abandonment of the lease

• Achieving habitable premises

• Premises liability of landlords

• The sales contract

• Executory period issues

• Real estate closings

• Post-closing title assurances

• Recording systems, marketable title acts, and title insurance

• Private nuisance

• Creation of easements

• Assignability, scope, and termination of easements

• Real covenants and equitable servitudes : running with the land

• Real covenants and equitable servitudes : common schemes and termination

• Constitutional and statutory constraints on zoning

• Variances, special exceptions, and zoning amendments

• Zoning extended and challenged

• Takings.