Property Law : Cases, Materials and Problems

Preface to the Third Edition v Acknowledgements ix Table of Cases xxvii Basic Property Concepts: Possession and Ownership 1(114) Is it Property? 3(19) Moore v. Regents of the University of California 3(4) Moore v. Regents of the University of California 7(6) Notes and Questions 13(3) Midler v. Ford Motor Co. 16(3) Notes and Questions 19(1) Problem: Creating the Treasure Trove 20(2) Who Is the Owner? 22(76) Discovery and Occupancy 22(1) Johnson and Graham's Lessee v. Mclntosh 22(8) Notes and Questions 30(8) Capture 38(1) Pierson v. Post 38(4) Notes and Questions 42(2) Problem: Ahab, Olive, and the Whale 44(1) The Capture Analogy 45(1) Texas American Energy Corporation v. Citizens Fidelity Bank & Trust Company 45(3) Notes and Questions 48(1) Popov v. Hayashi 49(6) Notes and Questions 55(2) Note on Water Law 57(2) Finders (and, Incidentally, ``Constructive'' Possession) 59(1) Armory v. Delamirie 59(1) Notes and Questions 60(1) Note on Bailments 60(2) Hannah v. Peel 62(5) Notes and Questions 67(4) Adverse Possession 71(1) Teson v. Vasquez 71(11) Notes and Questions 82(4) Charlton v. Crocker 86(6) Notes and Questions 92(4) The Good Neighbor Problem 96(1) Mediation: The Patio Problem 97(1) What Does it Mean to Be the Owner? 98(17) State v. Shack 100(5) Cross v. Texas 105(6) Notes and Questions 111(1) Problems: Bruce Wayne and Westgate 112(1) Complex Negotiation Problem: The School and the Shelter 113(2) Common Law Estates 115(82) Introduction 115(3) A Brief History of the English Feudal System 116(2) Fee Simple Absolute and Life Estate 118(23) Practice Problems 122(1) Black v. Black 122(4) Notes and Questions 126(1) Pigg v. Haley 127(6) Notes and Questions 133(5) Woodrick v. Wood 138(2) Notes and Questions 140(1) An Introduction to Future Interests: Remainders and Reversions 141(11) Practice Problems 147(1) A Diversion: The Fee Tail 147(5) The Defeasible Fees: Present Possessory Estates Subject to Conditions 152(16) Practice Problems 155(1) Mayor and City Council of Ocean City v. Taber 155(6) Higbee Corporation v. Kennedy, Executor 161(3) Notes and Questions 164(3) Review Problems 167(1) Executory Interests: The Last of the Future Interests 168(6) Practice Problems 172(1) Note on Trusts 172(2) Rules Furthering Marketability: Destructibility, Shelley's Case, Worthier Title, and Perpetuities 174(23) The Destructibility of Contingent Remainders 175(2) The Rule in Shelley's Case and the Doctrine of Worthier Title 177(1) Seymour v. Heubaum 177(4) Notes and Questions 181(1) The Rule Against Perpetuities 182(1) Note: The Modern Rule Against Perpetuities 182(1) North Carolina National Bank v. Norris 183(3) Notes and Questions 186(2) Practice Problems 188(1) Note: Statutory Reforms of the Rule 189(3) Final Review Problems 192(2) Closing Note 194(3) Concurrent Ownership 197(83) Introduction: Property in Families 197(3) Forms of Concurrent Ownership 200(56) Tenancy in Common 200(2) Chosar Corporation v. Owens 202(4) Notes and Questions 206(1) Joint Tenancy and Tenancy by the Entirety 207(1) Joint Tenancy 207(3) Williams v. Studstill 210(2) Notes and Questions 212(2) Tenancy by the Entirety 214(1) Schwab v. Krauss 215(1) Notes 216(4) United States v. Craft 220(9) Notes 229(2) Management and Disposition of Concurrently--Held Property 231(1) Johnson v. Hendrickson 232(3) Notes and Questions 235(4) Problem 239(1) Note on Transfer--on--Death (TOD) Statutes 240(5) Notes 245(3) Problem 248(1) Condominiums 248(5) M. Rait, Lollipop Condominiums: Air Rights, the Takings Clause, and Disclosure Under New York's New Guidelines 253(1) Notes and Questions 254(2) Property Claims in Marriage 256(24) Claims Against the Owner 257(2) Pezza v. Pezza 259(5) Notes and Questions 264(1) Note: On Morals in the Law Office 265(4) Community Property 269(1) Boggs v. Boggs 270(4) Uniform Marital Property Act (UMPA) 274(1) Probate, Trust and Real Property Section, Indiana State Bar Association, ``Uniform Marital Property Act'' 274(3) Notes 277(3) The Landlord--Tenant Relationship 280(168) Introduction 280(1) Nonadversarial Resolution of Landlord--Tenant Disputes 280(9) The Inexperienced Landlord: A Mediation Exercis