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Property law for dummies /
The easy way to make sense of property law Understanding property law is vital for all aspiring lawyers and legal professionals, and property courses are foundational classes within all law schools. Property Law For Dummies tracks to a typical property law course and introduces you to property law a...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Wiley,
2012.
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| Series: | --For dummies.
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Full text (Wentworth users only) |
| Local Note: | ProQuest Ebook Central |
Table of Contents:
- Property Law For Dummies; About the Author; Contents at a Glance; Table of Contents; Introduction; About This Book; Conventions Used in This Book; What You're Not to Read; Foolish Assumptions; How This Book Is Organized; Icons Used in This Book; Where to Go from Here; Part I: Introducing Property Law; Chapter 1: Getting the Lowdown on Property Law; Defining Property; Describing the Duration and Sharing of Ownership; Acquiring Original Property Rights; Transferring Property Rights to Another; Chapter 2: Defining Property in Legal Terms; Distinguishing between Real and Personal Property.
- Describing a Property Owner's RightsLimiting a Property Owner's Rights; Exploring Remedies for Violations of Property Rights; Chapter 3: Considering Property Ownership; Defining Title; Acquiring Title; Sharing and Dividing Property Ownership; Part II: Understanding Real Property Rights; Chapter 4: Identifying Common Law Rights in Real Property; Nuisance Law: Enjoying Property without Unreasonable Interference; Altering How Surface Water Drains; Regulating Water Rights; Extracting Oil and Gas from Underground; Avoiding Landslides and Subsidence: Supporting Land.
- No Trespassing! Excluding Others from LandUsing Airspace; Chapter 5: Adjusting Rights by Private Agreement: Covenants; Introducing Land-Related Covenants; Enforcing a Running Covenant at Law; Enforcing a Covenant in Equity; Burdens for the Benefit of All: Enforcing Implied Reciprocal Covenants; Interpreting Covenants; Amending Covenants; Terminating Covenants; Analyzing a Covenant Dispute; Chapter 6: Giving Others the Right to Use Your Land: Easements; Grasping the Basics of Easements; Creating Easements; Interference and Trespasses: Determining the Scope of Easements.
- Transferring and Dividing EasementsTerminating Easements; Chapter 7: Zeroing In on Zoning; Discovering Who Typically Regulates Land Use; Regulating the Big Three: Use, Height, and Bulk; Protecting Nonconformities from New Zoning Restrictions; Permitting Conditional Uses; Avoiding Unnecessary Hardship with Variances; Amending Zoning; Chapter 8: Recognizing the Limits of Public Regulation; Looking for the Local Power Source: State Enabling Statutes; Explaining Property Deprivations: Substantive Due Process; Compensating for Property Taken for Public Use.
- Treating Similarly Situated Owners the Same: Equal ProtectionRespecting Free Speech Rights; Part III: Looking at Shared and Divided Property Ownership; Chapter 9: Dividing Ownership over Time: Estates; Introducing the Concept of Present and Future Estates in Land; Creating and Distinguishing the Present Estates; Making Present Estates Defeasible: Conditional Endings; Identifying Future Estates; Restricting Certain Future Estates via Common Law Rules; Limiting Nonreversionary Interests: The Rule against Perpetuities; Transferring Present and Future Estates.