Property Law for Dummies

ISBN-13: 9781118375396 / Angielski / Miękka / 2013 / 384 str.

Alan R. Romero

Opis

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 and theory, exploring different types of property interests--particularly -real property.- In approachable For Dummies fashion, this book gives you a better understanding of the important property law concepts and aids in the reading and analysis of cases, statutes, and regulations.

• Tracks to a typical property law course
• Plain-English explanations make it easier to grasp property law concepts
• Serves as excellent supplemental reading for anyone preparing for their state's Bar Exam

The information in Property Law For Dummies benefits students enrolled in a property law course as well as non-students, landlords, small business owners, and government officials, who want to know more about the ins and outs property law.

Spis treści

Introduction 1

Part I: Introducing Property Law 7

Chapter 1: Getting the Lowdown on Property Law 9

Chapter 2: Defi ning Property in Legal Terms 15

Chapter 3: Considering Property Ownership 23

Part II: Understanding Real Property Rights 35

Chapter 4: Identifying Common Law Rights in Real Property 37

Chapter 5: Adjusting Rights by Private Agreement: Covenants 55

Chapter 6: Giving Others the Right to Use Your Land: Easements 79

Chapter 7: Zeroing In on Zoning 103

Chapter 8: Recognizing the Limits of Public Regulation 113

Part III: Looking at Shared and Divided Property Ownership 131

Chapter 9: Dividing Ownership over Time: Estates 133

Chapter 10: Sharing Property: Concurrent Ownership 159

Chapter 11: Owning Property in Marriage 181

Chapter 12: Leasing Property: Landlord–Tenant Law 191

Part IV: Acquiring and Transferring Property Rights 217

Chapter 13: Acquiring Rights by Finding and Possessing Personal Property 219

Chapter 14: Becoming an Owner by Adverse Possession 233

Chapter 15: Contracting to Sell Land 249

Chapter 16: Conveying Title by Deeds 273

Chapter 17: Recording Title 295

Chapter 18: Mortgaging Real Property 311

Part V: The Part of Tens 327

Chapter 19: Ten Notable Property Cases 329

Chapter 20: Ten Common Mistakes in Applying Property Law 339

Chapter 21: Ten Property Subjects Commonly Tested in Bar Exams 347

Index 351

O autorze

Alan Romero is a professor of law and Director of the Rural Law Center at the University of Wyoming College of Law. He′s been teaching Property Law and related courses at various law schools since 1998.

Blurb

Learn to:

• Identify property rights
• Understand how covenants, easements, and public regulations can reshape property rights
• Make sense of how property is shared and divided up over time
• Recognize how property may be acquired or transferred

The easy way to make sense of property law

Property Law For Dummies tracks to a typical property law course and introduces you to the laws regarding real and personal property rights. It clears up confusion on such topics as covenants, easements, estates, and adverse possession.

• Property Law 101 get acquainted with what property is, how you come to own it, and the different forms of ownership
• Real property law rights discover the basic common law rights that come with ownership of land, ways that land owners can adjust those rights by private contract, and how those rights can be changed by public regulation
• Sharing and dividing find out how two or more people can share ownership of property at the same time or divide it up over time
• Property possession understand how one can acquire ownership rights by possessing moveable things and even land
• Property law Ps and Qs get the information on important property cases that are worth remembering, common mistakes law students often make in applying property law, and ten property law subjects commonly tested in bar exams

Open the book and find:

• Plain–English definitions of legal terminology
• Common law rights regarding real property
• The nature, scope, and enforceability of private covenants that restrict an owner′s rights
• Information on easements that give one party a non–possessory right in another party′s land
• How governments may adjust property law rights by public regulation
• Recognized forms of concurrent ownership