Nelson, Whitman, Burkhart & Freyermuth's Black Letter Outline on Land Transactions and Finance provides law students with basic principles and issues of the law surrounding land transactions and finance. Each law is succinctly stated, with expert analysis of citations, points of law, rules, and exceptions. The book also includes citations to several casebooks.

The book covers:

  • Purchase agreements
  • Conveyances and titles
  • Real estate finance
  • Mortgage substitutes
  • Rights and duties before foreclosure
  • Impacts of bankruptcy on the mortgagee
  • Transfers by the mortgagors and mortgagees
  • Mortgage debt
  • Foreclosure
  • Priority problems
  • Government involvement in the mortgage market
  • Alternative mortgages
  • Condominiums
  • Cooperatives


Imprint: West Academic Publishing
Series: Black Letter Outlines
Publication Date: 02/12/2016

Grant S. Nelson, University of California-L.A. School of Law

Dale A. Whitman, Arizona State University College of Law

Ann M. Burkhart, University of Minnesota Law School

R. Wilson Freyermuth, University of Missouri-Columbia School of Law

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