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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