Understanding Property Law

Understanding Property Law is a comprehensive and authoritative treatise from our Understanding series that is suitable for use in conjunction with any Property casebook.
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Understanding Property Law is a comprehensive and authoritative treatise designed for law students who are taking the standard first-year course on property. It explains the basic principles of property law in the United States and discusses the policy concerns and historical currents that shape this law. The goal of the book is simple: to help students understand property law. It is suitable for use with any casebook.

This book provides complete coverage of all standard topics covered in the basic property course, including landlord-tenant law, adverse possession, rights in personal property, intellectual property, estates and future interests, cotenancies, marital property, sales transactions, mortgages, easements, covenants, servitudes, nuisances, eminent domain, zoning, takings, and other land use issues.

In addition, the book analyzes cutting-edge issues in modern property law, such as rights in human body parts, current takings issues, judicial reactions to the Restatement (Third) of Property: servitudes, rights and duties of homeowners associations, and rights in personal names and likenesses. Its clear writing and detailed organization help students understand both basic concepts and controversial issues. Thousands of law students across the nation have succeeded in their property classes by using this book.

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Table of contents

PART ONE: INTRODUCTION

Chapter One: What Is Property?

Chapter Two: Jurisprudential Foundations of Property Law

PART II: RIGHTS IN PERSONAL PROPERTY

Chapter Three: Property Rights in Wild Animals

Chapter Four: Finders of Personal Property

Chapter Five: Gifts of Personal Property

Chapter Six: Intellectual Property

Chapter Seven: Other Personal Property Rules

PART III: ESTATES AND FUTURE INTERESTS

Chapter Eight: History of the Estates in Land System

Chapter Nine: Present Estates

Chapter Ten: Concurrent Ownership

Chapter Eleven: Marital Property

Chapter Twelve: Introduction to Future Interests

Chapter Thirteen: Future Interests Held by the Transferor

Chapter Fourteen: Future Interests Held by the Transferee

PART IV: LANDLORD AND TENANT

Chapter Fifteen: Introduction to Landlord-Tenant Law

Chapter Sixteen: Creation of the Tenancy

Chapter Seventeen: Condition of Leased Premises

Chapter Eighteen: Transfer of Leasehold Interest

Chapter Nineteen: Termination of the Tenancy

PART V: THE SALE OF LAND

Chapter Twenty: The Sales Contract

Chapter Twenty-One: Condition of the Property

Chapter Twenty-Two: The Mortgage

Chapter Twenty-Three: The Deed

Chapter Twenty-Four: Fundamentals of Land Title

Chapter Twenty-Five: The Recording System

Chapter Twenty-Six: Methods of Title Assurance

PART VI: OTHER TRANSFERS OF LAND TITLE

Chapter Twenty-Seven: Adverse Possession

Chapter Twenty-Eight: Transfer of Property at Death

PART VII: OWNERS AND NEIGHBORS

Chapter Twenty-Nine: Nuisance

Chapter Thirty: Trespass

Chapter Thirty-One: Surface, Subsurface, and Air Space Rights

PART VIII: LAND USE CONTROLS - PRIVATE

Chapter Thirty-Two: Easements

Chapter Thirty-Three: Real Covenants

Chapter Thirty-Four: Equitable Servitudes

Chapter Thirty-Five: Condominiums and Other Common Interest Communities

PART IX: LAND USE CONTROLS - PUBLIC

Chapter Thirty-Six: Fundamentals of Zoning

Chapter Thirty-Seven: Tools for Zoning Flexibility

Chapter Thirty-Eight: Modern Zoning Controversies

Chapter Thirty-Nine: Eminent Domain

Chapter Forty: Land Use Regulation and the Takings Clause

Table of Cases

Index