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Cases and Materials on American Property Law » (5th Edition)

Book cover image of Cases and Materials on American Property Law by Sheldon F. Kurtz

Authors: Sheldon F. Kurtz, Herbert Hovenkamp
ISBN-13: 9780314177179, ISBN-10: 0314177175
Format: Hardcover
Publisher: West Group
Date Published: June 2007
Edition: 5th Edition

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Author Biography: Sheldon F. Kurtz

Book Synopsis

Kurtz and Hovenkamp's AMERICAN PROPERTY LAW, Second Edition, updates their popular first edition with new cases, problems and text and some major reorganizations.

However, the Second Edition continues to wrestle with significant and contemporary legal issues and to integrate the study of those issues with a variety of historical, cultural and economic traditions

Table of Contents

Preface
Acknowledgments
Table of Cases
Ch. 1Acquisition of Property Rights: A First Look1
Ch. 2Some Rights, Powers and Obligations of Possessors130
Ch. 3Adverse Possession163
Ch. 4Estates in Land and Future Interests209
Ch. 5Concurrent Estates334
Ch. 6Property and Cohabitants360
Ch. 7Leasehold Estates423
Ch. 8"Private" Controls of Land Use: Servitudes590
Ch. 9"Private" Controls of Land Use: The Law of Nuisance723
Ch. 10Takings, Deliberate and Inadvertent776
Ch. 11"Public" Controls of Land Use: An Introduction to Zoning and Land Use Planning879
Ch. 12The Law of Housing Discrimination976
Ch. 13Public Regulation of Community Ownership: Condominiums and Cooperatives1019
Ch. 14Voluntary Transfers of Interests in Real Property: The Real Estate Transaction1035
Ch. 15Voluntary Transfers of Interests in Real Property: Conveyancing by Deed1111
Ch. 16Assuring Good Title1151
Index1225

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