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How to Access Online Study Aids
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Study Aids for Help in Understanding Property
Call Number: Online via CALICALI currently offers many interactive exercises for Property. You will need to set up a password to use CALI online. To set up a username and password, you will be asked to enter UC Law’s authorization code. You can get this code from any reference librarian or at the Circulation Desk.
Call Number: Online via Aspen Learning Library subscription ISBN: 9781543841275 Publication Date: 2021-04-23This title contains briefs for each major case in Dukeminier's casebook on Property. It includes the black letter law, facts, majority opinion, concurrences, and dissents, as well as analysis of the case. Casenotes in 1L subjects include a Quick Course Outline as well.
Call Number: Online via Aspen Learning Library subscription ISBN: 9781543846379 Publication Date: 2022-04-15This title contains briefs for each major case in Singer, Berger, Davidson, and Penalver's Property Law 8th edition casebook. It includes the black letter law, facts, majority opinion, concurrences, and dissents, as well as analysis of the case. Casenotes in 1L subjects include a Quick Course Outline to help you understand the relationships between course topics.
Call Number: Available online via West Academic subscription and Law Reserves KF605 .W32 2013 ISBN: 9781640205727 Publication Date: 2018-07-23Nutshells are little paperback books that give a concise overview of an area of law. This nutshell provides an overview of the rules and principles of estates and future interests, including concurrent estates, marital estates (including the modern elective share), and powers of appointment. It includes new innovations from the Restatement 3d of Property, modernizing the law of future interests and dramatically changing the Rule Against Perpetuities. With respect to powers of appointment, the book incorporates the clarifications and modernizations of the law in the Restatement 3d of Property and the Uniform Powers of Appointment Act (2013, with subsequent amendments). The book also has exercises, with answers at the back.
Call Number: Online via West Academic subscription ISBN: 9780314198815 Publication Date: 2008-09-23Cribbet's High Court Case Summaries on Property, 9th contain briefs for each major case in this casebook. These briefs are followed by a useful legal analysis, which provides extra tips and contextual background about each case, connecting the case to the broader concepts being developed throughout the casebook. This book also supplies case vocabulary, which defines new or unusual legal words found throughout the cases. Finally, to enhance the reader's recall, there is a corresponding memory graphic for each brief that portrays an entertaining visual representation of the relevant facts or law of the case.
Call Number: Online via West Academic Subscription ISBN: 9798887862682 Publication Date: 2023Dukeminier's High Court Case Summaries on Property, contain briefs for each major case in Dukeminier's casebook on Property. High Court briefs are written to present the essential facts, issue, decision and rationale for each case in a clear, concise manner. The briefs are followed by a useful legal analysis, which provides extra tips and contextual background about each case, connecting the case to the broader concepts being developed throughout the casebook. This book also supplies case vocabulary, which defines new or unusual legal words found throughout the cases. Finally, to enhance the reader's recall, there is a corresponding memory graphic for each brief that portrays an entertaining visual representation of the relevant facts or law of the case.
Call Number: Online via West Academic study aid subscription ISBN: 9781647086428 Publication Date: 2021This title contains briefs for each major case in Sprankling and Coletta’s casebook on Property. These briefs will help you identify, understand, and absorb the core knowledge points from each case. They are followed by legal analysis, providing contextual background about each case, and connecting the case to the broader concepts developed throughout the casebook. This title also supplies case vocabulary, with definitions of new or unusual legal words found throughout the cases. Finally, to enhance your recall, there is a corresponding memory graphic for each brief that portrays a visual representation of the relevant facts or law of the case.
Call Number: Online via West Academic subscription ISBN: 9781636591865 Publication Date: 2022-07-14This classic monograph presents a simple, concise and readable text of the history of the English common law scheme of estates in land, including future interests, and the scheme's importation to the United States. The text specially treats the types of interests a person can hold in land today and the associated legal rules that affect those interests. The text is peppered with many review problems to assist the reader in learning the material in the monograph.
Call Number: Online via West Academic subscription and Law Reserves KF570 .F73 2005 ISBN: 9780314161086 Publication Date: 2006-08-27This six hour Real Property audio lecture includes estates-fee simple, fee tail, life estate, co-tenancy, joint tenancy, tenancy in common, tenancy by the entirety, and the landlord-tenant relationship. Also explained in detail are liability for condition of premises, assignment and sublease, easements, restrictive covenants, adverse possession, recording acts, conveyancing, personal property-finders, bailments, gifts, and future interests.
Call Number: Available Online via West Academic subscription and older edition at Law Reference 2 KF570 .S47 2013
ISBN: 9781634592994 Publication Date: 2016-03-22The Law of Property is organized around three main themes: acquiring property, dividing property, and limiting rights in property. Specific topics include, the law of capture, creation, adverse possession, estates and future interests, concurrent ownership, marital property, leaseholds, land transfers, recordation, easements, covenants, land use controls, and the Takings Clause, among others. The book synthesizes these diverse topics by highlighting the overarching themes that join them together. It features property topics including a recent Supreme Court case interpreting the Takings Clause, and disputes around hydrofracking and short-term rentals (like Airbnb). It has been edited to account for changes to marital property following new constitutional law on same-sex marriage. It now includes references to the Sprankling & Coletta casebook, as well as updated citations to the most recent editions of the leading casebooks.
Call Number: Available online via West Academic subscription ISBN: 9781642420913 Publication Date: 2018-10-10This title is a comprehensive, one-volume introduction to the modern law of real property. Each chapter begins with an overview of rules and concepts, followed by a series of problems and exercises designed to demonstrate how the rules and concepts apply in real situations. Each problem is followed by a comprehensive analysis of the legal issues raised, including citations of the relevant cases and statutes. This edition has been fully updated to reflect current developments.
Call Number: Online via the West Academic subscription and Law Stacks KF570 .C86 2000 ISBN: 9781640202375 Publication Date: 2019-01-22Think of a hornbook as a mini-treatise for law students. It provides a more in-depth analysis of law school subjects than the other series. This hornbook covers property laws; surveys estates in land (present, future, and concurrent); surveys comparable interests in personalty; covers landlord and tenant law; and addresses rights against neighbors and other third persons. Also examines easements and profits, running covenants, governmental controls on land use, land contracts, conveyances, titles, and recording systems.
Call Number: Online via Lexis OverDrive study aid subscription ISBN: 9781611635393 Publication Date: 2013-10-15Mastering Property Law is a guide to the fundamental rules of law underlying the basic property law course. Useful with any casebook, the text focuses on the common law developments of property from the beginning of the English system through our modern times. This concise introduction to the subject matter includes chapters on gifts; possessory estates and future interests; zoning and more. The book provides readers with clear rule statements, examples, diagrams, and other learning devices.
Call Number: Online via West Academic subscription ISBN: 9781634603379 Publication Date: 2018-03-07This reference guide provides an authoritative summary of personal property that will enhance your ability to distinguish between title and possession. Teaches by example, using a set of readily understandable situations. Also includes the origins of substantive rules of law and procedure.
Call Number: Online via West Academic subscription ISBN: 9780314150455 Publication Date: 2008-03-24Cases and statutory law are updated and the material reorganized; conforms with modern law school course in real property. Chapters open with brief outlines of the law encompassed within, providing an overview of rules in that area. This is followed by a series of factually-based problems designed to generate thoughts about how these rules could be applied in real life situations. In turn followed by statement of applicable law and analysis of legal issues raised, plus likely outcomes and current citations of the various laws.
Call Number: Available online via Aspen Learning Library study aid subscription ISBN: 9781543857610 Publication Date: 2023-05-17This book is for a Property student's use both before and after class, and it also summarizes the fundamentals of property law in preparation for a final examination, including the Bar Exam. Its text is based on the casebooks on Property in widespread use in this country, with its subjects arranged in the order in which they are typically presented. New to the 7th Edition: Many more in-text Examples in Part IV, Transfers of Land, Chapters 21-25 New text on new forms of real estate brokerage, Chapter 21 Many more in-text Examples in Part VI, Chapters 31-32 An updated text on the United States Supreme Court's takings cases, Chapter 34 Professors and students will benefit from: A focus on examination questions after each Chapter In-text Examples to investigate features of each Chapter's text as each Chapter presents them A presentation of areas of the law only referenced in class Better preparation for class
Call Number: Online via West Academic Subscription and LawStacks KF5698 .P75 2009 ISBN: 9781599413754 Publication Date: 2009-03-05This title provides a law student with an enriched understanding of fifteen leading property cases. It focuses on how lawyers, judges, and policy factors shaped the litigation, and why the cases have attained noteworthy status.
Call Number: Online via West Academic study aid subscription ISBN: 9781683282778 Publication Date: 2016-12-07With eight in-depth case studies based on real cases, real people, real documents, and real problems, Real Property for the Real World is your key to unlock the door to experiential education opportunity with ease. Slip seamlessly into "real lawyer" mode as you draw upon their exercises, divided into eight basic issue areas (from adverse possession to partition to zoning) and sliced and diced into accessible parts that you can mix and match to customize the experiential experience.
Call Number: Online via West Academic Subscription and Law Reserves KF570.Z9 B47 2010 ISBN: 9781634599207 Publication Date: 2015-11-20This nutshell discusses most rules covered in real property casebooks. The text is divided into three sections. Part One provides an overview of property interests by covering lost v. mislaid v. abandoned property, adverse possession, gifts, common law estates, future interests, landlord-tenant law, concurrent ownership, marital property rights, easements, profits, licenses, real covenants, and equitable servitudes. Part Two covers conveyancing, including real estate brokers, contracts of sale, deeds, recording, title insurance, and mortgages. Part Three covers a variety of property rights and liabilities, including airspace, water rights, the right to support, agreed boundaries, fixtures, trespass, nuisance, and land use regulation.
Call Number: Online via West Academic Subscription ISBN: 9781636592879 Publication Date: 2022-03-11Professor Paula Franzese sets forth understandable techniques for mastering estates in land and future interests (including the dreaded rule against perpetuities), concurrent estates, landlord-tenant law, servitudes, land transactions, recording system, zoning, and eminent domain and includes, in this expanded Second Edition, the top ten themes of Property law, the rule of capture, and the law of finders.
Call Number: Online via Lexis OverDrive study aid subscription ISBN: 9781531021252 Publication Date: 2022-10-31Understanding Property Law is a comprehensive and authoritative treatise designed for law students who are taking the standard first-year course on property. It (1) explains the basic principles of property law in the United States and (2) discusses the policy concerns and historical currents that shape this law. This book provides complete coverage of all standard topics covered in the basic property course, including landlord-tenant law, adverse possession, rights in personal property, intellectual property, estates and future interests, cotenancies, marital property, sales transactions, mortgages, easements, covenants, servitudes, nuisances, eminent domain, zoning, takings, and other land use issues. In addition, the book analyzes cutting-edge issues in modern property law, such as rights in human body parts, current takings issues, judicial reactions to the Restatement (Third) of Property: servitudes, rights and duties of homeowners associations, and rights in personal names and likenesses.
Study Aids for Property Review & Exam Preparation
Call Number: Online via West Academic Subscription ISBN: 9781683284499 Publication Date: 2022-03-11This study aid uses a checklist format to lead students through the questions they need to ask and answer to fully analyze the legal questions they are trying to resolve. Each chapter begins with a review and explanation of the important rules, concepts and principles that govern a particular area of property law. The review material is then synthesized into a checklist. Each chapter concludes with practice problems and solutions. The fourth edition includes: Two full-length, four-hour practice essay exams (with model answers); A new Master Checklist for issue-spotting essay questions; Updated discussion and Chapter Checklists for new developments in the law; New exam tips for regulatory takings and real covenants questions; Additional discussion of bailments, co-ownership, servitudes, and real estate transactions.
Call Number: Online via West Academic Subscription ISBN: 9780314275509 Publication Date: 2012-06-13This outline summarizes the black-letter rules of Property Law. It also contains a glossary and sample examination questions and answers.
Estates in Land and Future Interests by John Makdisi; Daniel B. Bogart Call Number: On Course Reserve for Prof. Bai ISBN: 0735540470 Publication Date: 2004-04-14Contains problem sets in every chapter with fully explained and analyzed answers. Coverage of major statutory and judicial reform of the Rule Against Perpetuities ensures continued usefulness for bar exam preparation Dynamic learning philosophy focuses first on traditional formulations of the Rule Against Perpetuities and future interests, then leads students from one difficult plateau to the next. Ideal for students in both property and wills and trusts courses details all the rules as they are applied today, with historical background of the law systematic organization of the common law concise and clear explanations of classifications of interests and estates.
Call Number: Online via West Academic Subscription ISBN: 9780314180704 Publication Date: 2007-10-05This study aid contains multiple-choice questions, some of which focus on specific subject areas, and some of which are mixed together in practice exams covering multiple topics. This Exam Pro includes over 200 objective questions on Property Law. Each answer choice includes detailed explanations as to why the correct answer was correct, and why each of the other choices was incorrect.
Call Number: Online via West Academic subscription ISBN: 9780314181169 Publication Date: 2009-11-03Gilbert Law Summaries give students an outline to help prepare for exams. Students can test their knowledge and fine tune exam skills with exam questions (multiple choice, short answer, and essay) which are featured at the back of each outline. Every question comes with a fully explained answer, and each question is cross-referenced back to the main outline for further review. The topics included in this outline are reversions, possibilities of reverter, rights of entry, remainders, executory interests, and rules restricting remainders and executory interest. Also discussed are rights of owners of future interests, construction of instruments, powers of appointment, and the rule against perpetuities, including reforms of the rule.
Gilbert Law Summaries on Personal Property, 8th by Gilbert Staff ISBN: 9780314181152 Publication Date: 2010-09-20Covers acquisitions, ownership through possession, finders of lost property, bailments, possessory liens, and pledges. Also included are trover, gift, accession, confusion (commingling), fixtures, crops (emblements), adverse possession, and prescriptive rights (acquiring ownership of easements or profits by adverse use).
Call Number: Online via West Academic Subscription ISBN: 9780314286062 Publication Date: 2013-08-20Discusses possession (including wild animals, bailments, and adverse possession), gifts and sales of personal property, freehold possessory estates, and future interests. Also included are tenancy in common, joint tenancy, and tenancy by the entirety, condominiums, cooperatives, marital property, landlord and tenant, and easements and covenants. This outline also covers nuisance, rights in airspace and water, right to support, zoning, eminent domain, sale of land, and methods of title assurance.
Call Number: Online via Aspen Learning Library subscription ISBN: 9781543839319 Publication Date: 2022-11-01The Glannon Guide to Property provides a concise review of property topics through the use of multiple-choice questions.This text provides an overview of important rules and principles that apply across a broad spectrum of property subject matters and emphasizes how property law has changed historically and continues to evolve. After each question the author explains how the correct choice was chosen, So that students learn how to analyze exam questions while they review course material.
Call Number: Law Reserves KF283 .R42 2013 ISBN: 1454809221 Publication Date: 2013-03-29This Law in a Flash set covers Real Property. Topics include Adverse Possession, Landlord-Tenant, Conveyances, Mortgages, Rights of Possessors, Easements, Covenants, Zoning, and Eminent Domain.
Call Number: Online via Wolters Kluwer study aid subscription ISBN: 9781454870227 Publication Date: 2017-06-13This CrunchTime book covers Adverse Possession, Freehold Possession, Future Interests, Rule Against Perpetuities, Easements, and Recording.
Call Number: Online via LexisOverDrive study aid subscription ISBN: 9780769865102 Publication Date: 2014-01-01This study guide includes 170 multiple-choice and short-answer questions arranged topically for ease of use during the semester, plus an additional set of 50 questions comprising a comprehensive "practice exam." For each multiple-choice question, a detailed answer is provided that indicates which of four options is the best answer and explains thoroughly why that option is better than the other three options. Each short-answer question is designed to be answered in fifteen minutes or less, and each question has a thoughtful, comprehensive, yet brief model answer.
A Student's Guide to Estates in Land and Future Interests by Robert Laurence and Pamela Minzner Call Number: On Course Reserve for Prof. Bai ISBN: 9780820527185 Publication Date: 2000Chronologically organized material familiarizes students with basic concepts and necessary technical vocabulary. The authors graphically explain complex concepts, and provide extensive problem and answer sets. Topics include basic possessory estates, remainders and executory interests in response to the statute of uses, modifications of the common law scheme, and interesting complexities and modern changes.
Call Number: Online via Lexis OverDrive study aid subscription and a 2012 version is on Course Reserve for Prof. Bai
ISBN: 9781531018818 Publication Date: 2020-07-03This guide facilitates the understanding of complex materials from Property courses. Chronologically organized material familiarizes students with basic concepts and necessary technical vocabulary. The authors graphically explain complex concepts, and provide extensive problem and answer sets. Topics include basic possessory estates, remainders and executory interests in response to the statute of uses, modifications of the common law scheme, and interesting complexities and modern changes.
Call Number: Online via West Academic Subscription ISBN: 9780314180957 Publication Date: 2007-08-13Comprehensive analysis of property law. Provides clear and concise explanations of legal concepts and terms, along with exam hints, strategies, mnemonics, charts, tables, and study tips. Includes self-testing and diagnostic review questions, and capsule summaries of significant cases identifying important facts, primary issues, and relevant law. Provides essay and multiple choice questions with model answers and detailed explanations.
Call Number: Online via West Academic subscription ISBN: 9780314267252 Publication Date: 2013-12-19Sum and Substance Audio Set on Real Property, 3rd presents the essentials of real property law. Sections discuss, among others: study techniques, ownership, tenure, seisin, estates in land, future interests, reversion, remainders, title, powers of appointment, tenancy, marital property estates, landlord and tenant, assignment and subletting, easements, profits, licenses, land sales contracts, financing, deeds, covenants of title, estoppel by deed, recording acts, lateral and subjacent support, and public land use control.
Call Number: Online via West Academic study aid subscription ISBN: 9780314286864 Publication Date: 2013-03-20This title provides a basic introduction to estates and future interests law. Designed to offer solid knowledge of the area's central concepts, it guides readers through a series of increasingly complex conveyances. The workbook begins with an analysis of the fee simple estate and builds sequentially toward more complicated interests and conveyances. The information proceeds from the simple to more complex, later problems building on the successful command of earlier material. Each problem is followed not only by that problem's answer but also by a complete analysis of how the answer was derived. The workbook also contains an extensive glossary, summary charts, and a set of review problems that test the reader's developing mastery of the material.
Workbook on Estates and Future Interests by Raymond R. Coletta Call Number: On Course Reserve for Prof. Bai ISBN: 9780314181442 Publication Date: 2007-04-24This title provides a basic introduction to estates and future interests law. Designed to offer solid knowledge of the areas central concepts, it guides readers through a series of increasingly complex conveyances. The workbook begins with an analysis of the fee simple estate and builds sequentially toward more complicated interests and conveyances. The information proceeds from the simple to more complex, later problems building on the successful command of earlier material. The workbook also contains an extensive glossary, summary charts, and a set of review problems that test the readers developing mastery of the material.
