Property: Examples and Explanations Book

SUMMARY OF CONTENTS

Part 1. Possession, Personal Property, and Adverse Possession
• The Law of Property
• Personal Property and Possession
• The Law of Finders and Prior Possessors
• Bailments
• Gifts
• Good Faith or Bona Fide Purchasers
• Fixtures
• Adverse Possession

Part 2. Common Law Estates and Interests in Real Property
• Common Law Estates
• Future Interests
• Some Special Rules of Construction
• The Rule Against Perpetuities
• Concurrent Interests
• Marital Estates

Part 3. The Law of Landlord and Tenant
• The Landlord and Tenant Relationship
• Transfers of the Lease
• Waste, Repair, and Destruction of Leased Premises
• Termination and Abandonment of the Lease
• Achieving Habitable Premises
• The Covenant of Quiet Enjoyment
• Premises Liability of Landlords
• The Holdover Tenant and Concluding Comments
• The Law of Waste

PART 4. Transfers of Land
• The Sales Contract
• Executory Period Issues
• Real Estate Closings
• Post-Closing Title Assurances
• The Recording Systems

PART 5. Private Land Use Controls
• Private Nuisance
• Creation of Encasements
• Assignability, Scope and Termination of Easements
• Real Covenants and Equitable Servitudes: Running With the Land
• Real Covenants and Equitable Servitudes: Common Schemes and Termination

PART 6. Public Land Use Controls
• Constitutional and Statutory Constraints on Zoning
• Variances, Special Exceptions, and Zoning Amendments
• Selected Challenges to Zoning Ordinances
• Takings