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Authors: Barlow Burke, Joseph Snoe
ISBN-13: 9780735570313, ISBN-10: 0735570310
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Wolters Kluwer Law & Business
Date Published: March 2008
Edition: 3rd Edition

Author Biography: Barlow Burke

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The focused coverage of Examples & Explanations: Property, Third Edition , along with the proven Examples & Explanations format, which combines textual material with well-written examples, explanations, and questions that test the reader's

	Preface	xix
	Acknowledgments	xxi
Part 1	Possession, Personal Property, and Adverse Possession
Chapter 1	The Law of Property	3
	Introduction	3
	Common Law Cases	5
	Case Analysis	8
Chapter 2	Personal Property and Possession	13
	Introduction and Definitions	13
	Possession, Relativity of Title, and First-in-Time	14
	Actual Possession and the Fox Case	15
	Custom	17
	More Uses for the Doctrine of Custom	19
	Natural Resources and Other Concerns	19
	Water Law	20
	Actionable Interference	21
	Misappropriation	22
Chapter 3	The Law of Finders and Prior Possessors	29
	Conversion, Replevin, and Trover	31
	Armory v. Delamirie	31
	Extensions of the Armory Rule--and a Right of Subrogation	32
	Lost Property, Mislaid Property, Abandoned Property, and Treasure Trove	32
	Other Considerations	34
	Instrumental View	35
	Legislation	35
Chapter 4	Bailments	41
	Definition	41
	Overview of Negligence and Strict Liability	43
	Specialized Bailment Issues	43
	Misdelivery of Bailed Property	45
	When Bailed Property Is Lost or Damaged	47
Chapter 5	Good Faith or Bona Fide Purchasers	53
	Voidable Title and Bona Fide Purchasers	53
	The UCC and Bona Fide Purchasers	55
	Entrustment	56
Chapter 6	Gifts	61
	Inter Vivos Gifts	61
	Gifts Causa Mortis	64
Chapter 7	Fixtures	69
Chapter 8	Adverse Possession	73
	Introduction	73
	Elements of Adverse Possession	75
	Privity and Tacking	80
	Disabilities and Tolling the Running of the Statute of Limitations	81
	Life Tenants and Remaindermen	82
Part 2	Common Law Estates and Interests in Real Property
Chapter 9	Common Law Estates and Present Interests	107
	Some History	107
	Estates: Some Fundamentals	108
	Estates and Interests	109
	What to Look for in Studying Freehold Estates	110
	Defeasible Fee Simple Estates	117
	Classifying Estates in Fee Simple	121
Chapter 10	Future Interests	129
	Introduction	129
	Distinguishing Present Interests and Future Interests	129
	Future Interests Retained by the Grantor or Transferor	130
	Future Interests in Third-Party Transferees	131
	Vested and Contingent Remainders	133
	Practice Interpreting Grants with Conditions
	Precedent and Conditions Subsequent	135
	Alternative Contingent Remainders	136
	Why We Distinguish Vested and Contingent Remainders	137
	Executory Interests	138
	Variations on Vested Remainders	139
Chapter 11	Special Rules of Construction	151
	The Rule of Destructibility of Contingent Remainders	151
	The Merger Rule	153
	The Rule in Shelley's Case	154
	The Doctrine of Worthier Title	156
Chapter 12	The Rule Against Perpetuities	161
	The Rule Against Perpetuities	161
	Interests Not Affected	162
	Interests Affected	162
	Interests Dependent on an Event	165
	Grantee Identified by Description Rather Than Named	168
	Intergenerational Family Transfers	169
	Effect of Class Closing Rules	171
	Commercial Options	174
	Statutory Reforms of the Rule	175
Chapter 13	Concurrent Ownership	185
	Tenancy in Common	185
	Joint Tenancy with Right of Survivorship	186
	Distinguishing Joint Tenancies from Tenancies in Common	188
	Severance	189
	Tenancy by the Entirety	192
	Rights and Obligations Between Co-tenants	193
	Partition	197
Chapter 14	Marital Property	209
	Common Law Dower	209
	Dower Reform	210
	The Elements of Dower	210
	Dower and Adverse Possession	211
	Dower and Waste	212
	Release of Dower	212
	Barring Dower	212
	Forcing an Election	212
	Curtesy	212
	The Modern Elective Share	214
	Calculating the Amount of the Elective Share	214
	Homesteads	215
	Community Property	216
Part 3	The Law of Landlord and Tenant
Chapter 15	The Landlord and Tenant Relationship	225
	Types of Leases	225
	The Landlord's Duty to Deliver Possession	229
	The Holdover Tenant (Briefly Now--More Later)	230
Chapter 16	Transfers of the Lease	239
	Privity of Contract and Privity of Estate	239
	Assignments and Subleases	239
	The Traditional Rule	240
	Rule of Intent	240
	The Effect of Tenant Transfers on Privity	241
	Real Covenants	242
	Landlord's Consent to a Sublease or Assignment	243
	Landlord Consent Provisions	243
	The Rule of Dumpor's Case	245
	Transfers of the Landlord's Interest	245
Chapter 17	Waste, Duty to Repair, Destruction of Leased Premises, and Security Deposits	251
	Waste	251
	The Measure of Damages for Waste	252
	Fixtures	252
	The Duty to Repair	253
	The Destruction of the Premises	254
	Security Deposits	255
Chapter 18	Termination and Abandoment of the Lease	259
	Landlord Eviction of Tenant in Default	259
	Self-help	259
	Ejectment	260
	Summary Possession Statutes	261
	Tenant's Abandonment and Surrender	263
	Surrender	263
	Abandonment	263
Chapter 19	Achieving Habitable Premises	271
	Evictions--Actual and Otherwise	271
	The Implied Warranty of Habitability	275
	Retaliatory Eviction as a Tenant's Defense to Eviction	279
	Illegal and Frustrated Leases	281
Chapter 20	Premises Liability of Landlords	293
	Landlord Liability for Criminal Acts	295
	Exculpatory Clauses	296
Chapter 21	The Holdover Tenant and Concluding Comments	301
Part 4	Transfers of Land
Chapter 22	The Sales Contract	311
	Introduction	311
	Closing	312
	Remedies for Breach	313
	Real Estate Brokers and Agents	313
	Broker as Seller's Agent	315
	Broker's Duty to Disclose Latent Defects to Purchasers	316
	The Statute of Frauds	317
	Part Performance and Other Exceptions	318
Chapter 23	Executory Period Issues	327
	Introduction	327
	Marketable Title	328
	Caveat Emptor and the Duty to Disclose Defects	333
	Time for Performance	334
	Remedies for Breach of Sales Contract	335
	Equitable Conversion and Risk of Loss	336
Chapter 24	Real Estate Closings	349
	The Closing or Settlement Process	349
	Delivery	350
	Mortgages	354
Chapter 25	Post-Closing Title Assurances	369
	Merger Doctrine	369
	Types of Deeds	369
	Deed Covenants	370
	Present Covenants	372
	Future Covenants	373
	Damages	374
	Attorney Fees	375
	Remote Grantees	376
	Implied Warranty of Quality	377
	After Acquired Title (Estoppel by Deed)	379
Chapter 26	The Recording Systems	391
	Introduction	391
	Searching a Chain of Title Using the Grantee Index	393
	Searching a Chain of Title Using the Grantor Index	394
	Searching a Tract Index	394
	The Recording Acts	395
	Race or Pure Race Statute	395
	Race-Notice Statute	396
	Notice or Pure Notice Statute	399
	Purchasers for Value	400
	Problems in Grantor-Grantee	401
	Marketable Title Acts	402
	Title Insurance	404
Part 5	Private Land Use Controls
Chapter 27	Private Nuisance	423
	Introduction	423
	Intentional and Unintentional Interferences	424
	Substantial Interference	425
	Unreasonable Interference	425
	Injunctions and Damages	426
Chapter 28	Creation of Easements	433
	Introduction	433
	Terminology	434
	Express Easements	436
	Easements by Estoppel and Irrevocable Licenses	437
	Implied Easements	439
	Easements Implied from Prior Use	440
	Easements Implied by Necessity	442
	Prescriptive Easements	443
Chapter 29	Assignability, Scope, and Termination of Easements	459
	Assignability of Easements	459
	Divisibility and Apportionment	460
	Scope of Easements	462
	Termination of Easements	465
Chapter 30	Real Covenants and Equitable Servitudes: Running with the Land	477
	Introduction	477
	Terminology	478
	Identifying Real Covenants and Equitable Servitudes	479
	Intent to Bind and Benefit Successors	480
	Touch and Concern	481
	Real Covenants and the Privity of Estate	485
	Equitable Servitudes and the Notice Requirement	489
Chapter 31	Real Covenants and Equitable Servitudes: Common Schemes and Termination	497
	The Common Scheme and Subdivisions	497
	The Common Scheme and Standing to Enforce a Servitude	498
	The Common Scheme and Notice for Recording Acts and Equitable Servitudes	500
	The Common Scheme and the Statute of Frauds	502
	What Constitutes a Common Scheme	502
	Termination of Covenants and Servitudes	504
Part 6	Public Land Use Controls
Chapter 32	Constitutional and Statutory Constraints on Zoning	517
	Introduction	517
	An Introduction to Constitutional Law	517
	The Standard State Zoning Enabling Act	518
	Cumulative and Noncumulative Zoning	519
	The Constitutional Law in Euclid	520
	Unconstitutional On Its Face and Unconstitutional As Applied	523
	Nonconforming Uses	524
	Amortization	525
Chapter 33	Variances, Special Exceptions, and Zoning Amendments	531
	Variances	531
	Special Exceptions	534
	Judicial Review of Variances and Special Exceptions	535
	Amending the Zoning Ordinance	536
	The Problem of Spot Zoning	537
	Initiative and Referendum	539
	Contract and Conditional Zoning	540
	Floating Zones, Cluster Zones, and PUDs	540
Chapter 34	Selected Challenges to Zoning Ordinances	551
	Aesthetic Regulation	551
	Adult Entertainment	555
	Household Composition of Single-Family Residences	557
	Exclusionary Zoning	561
Chapter 35	Takings	573
	Conventional Condemnation	573
	Inverse Condemnation	575
	Categorical or Per Se Takings	576
	Regulatory Takings	579
	Exactions	586
	Remedies	589
	Table of Cases	599
	Index	603

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