This book takes difficult subject matter and makes it accessible and easy to remember. Professor Paula Franzese, a nationally renowned teacher and scholar, 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, the recording system, zoning, and eminent domain and includes, in this expanded Third Edition, added treatment of adverse possession, homeowners' associations, common interest communities, future interests, the rule of capture, and the law of finders. Learn from this ten-time recipient of the Professor of the Year Award and become a property connoisseur!


Imprint: West Academic Publishing
Series: Short & Happy Guides
Publication Date: 03/11/2022

Paula A. Franzese, Seton Hall University School of Law

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Notable highlights of the expanded Third Edition include: added treatment of future interests and the rule against perpetuities, homeowners' associations, common interest communities, adverse possession, servitudes, and land transactions.

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