520 __ |a "Some courses on property law begin with the analysis of cases - sometimes they concern the acquisition of personal property, sometimes wild animals; and sometimes they introduce the subject with a U.S. Supreme Court case concerning the Fifth Amendment's takings clause or with a case about Native American claims to property that puts our American system into perspective. Historical and philosophical readings about property law's development might also be used to gain perspective"-- |c Provided by publisher.

505 0_ |a The law of property -- Personal property and first possession -- Law of finders and prior possessors -- Bailments -- Sales and good faith purchasers -- Gifts -- Fixtures -- Adverse possession -- Common law estates and present interests -- Future interests -- Special rules of construction -- The rule against perpetuities -- Concurrent ownership -- Marital property -- The landlord and tenant relationship -- Transfers of the lease -- Waste, duty to repair, destruction of leased premises, and security deposits -- Termination and abandonment of the lease -- Achieving habitable premises -- Premises liability of landlords -- The sales contract -- Executory period issues -- Real estate closings -- Post-closing title assurances -- Recording systems, marketable title acts, and title insurance -- Private nuisance -- Creation of easements -- Assignability, scope, and termination of easements -- Real covenants and equitable servitudes : running with the land -- Real covenants and equitable servitudes : common schemes and termination -- Constitutional and statutory constraints on zoning -- Variances, special exceptions, and zoning amendments -- Zoning extended and challenged -- Takings.