Property (Examples & Explanations)

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 understanding of the material covered, makes this text an invaluable means for helping students master the intricacies of property law. Among the features that have made this study aid a success:

• eminently clear and readable text
• six-part topical organization that matches the coverage of most first-year property courses and follows the organization of the best selling property casebook by Dukeminier, Krier, Alexander & Schill
• rich pedagogy includes boldfaced legal terms and visual aids, such as charts and diagrams, especially for common-law estates—a topic that lends itself to diagrammatic presentation
• the authors address principal cases used in most leading casebooks
• skilled and experienced authorship by long-time teachers and scholars of property law

• updated coverage of takings to include recent Supreme Court cases Tahoe-Sierra Preservation Council Inc. v. Tahoe Regional Planning Agency, Kelo v. New London, and Lingle v. Chevron U.S.A.
• expanded introduction to trusts with clear and detailed descriptions of a trust, a grantor, a trustee, a life beneficiary, and a remainderman
• new substantive material added to coverage of:
  • the recording acts
  • the Third Restatement of Property concerning Servitudes (covenants and equitable servitudes)
  • Private Nuisance—Chapter 27—adjacent and subjacent support
• updated coverage of the Rule Against Perpetuities
• many examples and explanations have been revised for greater clarity and effectiveness
• language in the text has been simplified where needed for even greater accessibility