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Real Property in a Nutshell
This concise work 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.
Imprint: West Academic Publishing
Series: Nutshells
Publication Date: 11/20/2015
Roger H. Bernhardt, Golden Gate University College of Law
Ann M. Burkhart, University of Minnesota Law School
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The Seventh Edition is fully updated. It also includes an expanded discussion of the remedies for a landlord's breach of the implied warranty of habitability and a new section on the transferability of future interests by inter vivos conveyance, will, or intestate succession. The new edition also cites the United States Supreme Court's recent decision concerning the Fair Housing Act and disparate impact, Texas Department of Housing and Community Affairs v. Inclusive Communities Project, Inc., --S.Ct.--, 2015 WL 2473449 (June 25, 2015).
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