Cases and Text on Property Book

Summary of Contents

PART I THE NATURE OF PROPERTY


• What is Property? Where does it come from? Why Do We Have It?
• Acquisition of Property by Conquest, Adverse Possession, and Prescription
• Property Rights in Creative Works

PART II OWNERSHIP INTERESTS IN PROPERTY


• A Brief History of English Land Law from 1066 through the Statute of Uses
• Estates in Land and Future Interests in the United States Today
• Landlord-Tenant Law
• Concurrent Estates & Marital Property

PART III VOLUNTARY TRANSFERS OF PROPERTY


• Lifetime Gifts That Are Not in Trust
• The Modern Real Estate Transaction
• Protection Against Discrimination in Housing

PART IV LAND USE CONTROLS


• Nuisance
• Servitudes and Common Interest Communities
• Eminent Domain
• Land Use Regulation and Its Constitutional Limits
• The Structure of Zoning