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West Academic Study Aids - A Selection of Property Titles

Real Property in a Nutshell
Description: This concise work discusses most rules covered in real property casebooks. The text is divided into three sections. Part One provides an overview of property interests by covering lost v. mislaid v. abandoned property, adverse possession, gifts, common law estates, future interests, landlord-tenant law, concurrent ownership, marital property rights, easements, profits, licenses, real covenants, and equitable servitudes. Part Two covers conveyancing, including real estate brokers, contracts of sale, deeds, recording, title insurance, and mortgages. Part Three covers a variety of property rights and liabilities, including airspace, water rights, the right to support, agreed boundaries, fixtures, trespass, nuisance, and land use regulation.
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PART 1. INTERESTS IN LAND
PART 2. CONVEYANCING
PART 3. MISCELLANEOUS PROPERTY DOCTRINES
The Law of Property: An Introductory Survey. 2018
Description: This title is a comprehensive, one-volume introduction to the modern law of real property. Each chapter begins with an overview of rules and concepts, followed by a series of problems and exercises designed to demonstrate how the rules and concepts apply in real situations. Each problem is followed by a comprehensive analysis of the legal issues raised, including citations of the relevant cases and statutes. This edition has been fully updated to reflect current developments.
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Chapter 1 PERSONAL PROPERTY: RIGHTS OF SOME POSSESSORS1
Chapter 2 BAILMENTS23
Chapter 3 GIFTS, INCLUDING BANK ACCOUNTS41
Chapter 4 RIGHTS OF POSSESSORS OF LAND, INCLUDING ADVERSE POSSESSION67
Chapter 5 CLASSIFYING POSSESSORY ESTATES107
Chapter 6 CLASSIFYING FUTURE INTERESTS151
Chapter 7 SPECIAL RULES GOVERNING FUTURE INTERESTS207
Chapter 8 MARITAL AND CONCURRENT ESTATES245
Chapter 9 LANDLORD AND TENANT LAW269
Chapter 10 SERVITUDES: EASEMENTS, COVENANTS, EQUITABLE SERVITUDES343
Chapter 11 NUISANCE449
Chapter 12 LEGISLATIVE CONTROL OVER LAND USE—ZONING, THE TAKINGS CLAUSE, AND HOUSING DISCRIMINATION481
Chapter 13 COOPERATIVES, CONDOMINIUMS AND HOMEOWNERS ASSOCIATIONS545
Chapter 14 SELLER AND BUYER: THE LAND SALE CONTRACT569
Chapter 15 THE EVOLUTION OF THE MODERN DEED611
Chapter 16 CONVEYANCING BY DEED625
Chapter 17 ASSURANCE OF TITLE667
A Short & Happy Guide to Property, 3rd. 2022
This book takes difficult subject matter and makes it accessible and easy to remember. Professor Paula Franzese, a nationally renowned teacher and scholar, sets forth understandable techniques for mastering estates in land and future interests (including the dreaded rule against perpetuities), concurrent estates, landlord-tenant law, servitudes, land transactions, the recording system, zoning, and eminent domain and includes, in this expanded Third Edition, added treatment of adverse possession, homeowners' associations, common interest communities, future interests, the rule of capture, and the law of finders. Learn from this ten-time recipient of the Professor of the Year Award and become a property connoisseur!
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Chapter 1 - The Top Ten Themes of Property Law
Chapter 2 - The Acquisition of Property Other Than by Voluntary Transfer

Chapter 3 - Estates In Land and Future Interests

Chapter 4 - Concurrent Estates

Chapter 5 - Landlord/Tenant Law

Chapter 6 - Servitudes

Chapter 7 - Land Transactions: The Purchase and Sale of Real Estate

Chapter 8 - Zoning
Chapter 9 - Eminent Domain
Chapter 10 - Water Rights
Chapter 11 - Possessors’ Rights: Trespass and Nuisance
Chapter 12 - Exam Preparation
Acing Property. 2012
Description: This study aid uses outline-like checklists to lead students through the analytical steps necessary to evaluate and resolve property issues. Each chapter begins with a review and explanation of the important rules, concepts, and principles that govern a particular area of property law. The review material is then synthesized into a checklist. Each chapter concludes with practice problems and solutions that illustrate how students can use the checklist to analyze property issues when writing their exams. The systematic analytical approach represented by the checklists in this book is unique among study aids.
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1. Captured and Found Property
2. Gifts
3. Present and Future Interests
4. The Rule Against Perpetuities
5. Co–Ownership
6. Landlord and Tenant
7. Real Estate Transactions
8. Recording Acts and Adverse Possession
9. Easements, Profits, Real Covenants and Equitable Servitudes
10. Takings

Aspen - Property Books

Examples & Explanations for Property
6th edition. Available on Wolters Kluwer Online Study Guides.

Revised and rearranged coverage and examples to focus on major points and concepts and to clarify more obscure issues
Simplified examples and questions to highlight the main issue
A more structured development of Chain of Title problems inherent in recording systems

Resources and Outline available from Westlaw and Lexis

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Selected Titles on Property Law from Lexis Digital Library

Understanding Property Law
2020
Author John G. Sprankling
Understanding Property Law is a comprehensive and authoritative treatise from our Understanding series that is suitable for use in conjunction with any Property casebook. Features include:
Complete coverage of all standard property topics, including landlord-tenant law, adverse possession, rights in personal property, estates and future interests, marital property, land sale transactions, servitudes, nuisance, zoning, takings, and other land use issues;
Analysis of cutting-edge topics, such as property rights in human bodies, current takings issues, the new Restatement (Third) of Property (Servitudes), rights and duties of homeowners' associations, and property rights in personal names and likeness.
Questions & Answers: Property
2014
Author John Copeland Nagle
Understand better what you're learning in Property class and prepare effectively for exams by applying concepts as you learn them. This study guide includes 170 multiple-choice and short-answer questions arranged topically for ease of use during the semester, plus an additional set of 50 questions comprising a comprehensive "practice exam."

Hornbooks

Moynihan's Introduction to the Law of Real Property by Sheldon F. Kurtz
Call Number: UMLAW Reserve KF570 .M6 2011
ISBN: 9780314275462
Publication Date: 2011-10-17

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