Property : examples and explanations / Barlow Burke (John S. Myers & Alvina Reckman Myers Scholar and Professor of Law, American University, Washington College of Law), Joseph Snoe (Professor Emeritus, Former Whelan W. and Rosalie T. Palmer Professor of Law, Samford University, Cumberland School of Law).

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Main Authors: Burke, D. Barlow, 1941- (Author), Snoe, Joseph A. (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Wolters Kluwer, [2019]
Edition:Sixth edition.
Series:Examples & explanations series.
Subjects:
Table of Contents:
  • The law of property
  • Personal property and first possession
  • Law of finders and prior possessors
  • Bailments
  • Sales and good faith purchasers
  • Gifts
  • Fixtures
  • Adverse possession
  • Common law estates and present interests
  • Future interests
  • Special rules of construction
  • The rule against perpetuities
  • Concurrent ownership
  • Marital property
  • The landlord and tenant relationship
  • Transfers of the lease
  • Waste, duty to repair, destruction of leased premises, and security deposits
  • Termination and abandonment of the lease
  • Achieving habitable premises
  • Premises liability of landlords
  • The sales contract
  • Executory period issues
  • Real estate closings
  • Post-closing title assurances
  • Recording systems, marketable title acts, and title insurance
  • Private nuisance
  • Creation of easements
  • Assignability, scope, and termination of easements
  • Real covenants and equitable servitudes : running with the land
  • Real covenants and equitable servitudes : common schemes and termination
  • Constitutional and statutory constraints on zoning
  • Variances, special exceptions, and zoning amendments
  • Zoning extended and challenged
  • Takings.