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Cases and materials on American property law / by Sheldon F. Kurtz, Herbert Hovenkamp, Carol Necole Brown.
Published
St. Paul, MN : Thomson/West, [2012]
Copyright
©2012
Call Number
KF560 .K87 2012
Edition
Sixth edition.
Spine Title
American property law
ISBN
9780314265357
031426535X
031426535X
Description
xlv, 1,324 ; 26 cm.
System Control No.
(OCoLC)794413078
Note
Includes index.
Series
Record Appears in
Added Author
Table of Contents
Preface
v
Table of Cases
xxiii
ch. 1
Acquisition of Property Rights: A First Look
1
Sec
1.1.
Introduction
1
1.2.
What Is Property?
2
Friedman, The Law of the Living, The Law of the Dead; Property, Succession, and Society, 1966 Wis.L.Rev. 340-349
2
Notes and Questions
8
1.3.
Acquisition of Property Rights by Capture
8
Pierson v. Post
8
Note on Briefing Cases
12
Notes and Questions
13
Popov v. Hayashi
19
Notes and Questions
29
Notes on the Occupation Theory of Property
29
L. Becker, Property Rights: Philosophic Foundations 24-25 (1977)
29
Richard A. Epstein, Possession as the Root of Title, 13 Ga. L. Rev. 1221-22, 1238-43 (1979)
31
Notes and Questions
35
Fugitive Minerals and the Rule of Capture: An Economic Note on Market Failure and the Common Law of Property Rights
36
Note on the Labor Theory of Property
38
J. Locke, Second Treatise of Government, [§] 27, In Two Treatises of Government 305-06 (P. Laslett Rev.Ed. 1970) (1st Ed. London 1690)
38
Notes and Questions
39
Note on the Economic Theory of Property
41
R. Posner, Economic Analysis of Law 40-42 (8th Ed. 2010)
41
Notes and Questions
44
Note on Property and Personhood
45
Margaret Radin, Property and Personhood, 34 Stan. L. Rev. 957-61 (1982)
45
Notes and Questions
47
1.4.
Acquisition of Property Rights by Find
47
Introductory Note
47
Favorite v. Miller
48
More on the Story of the Statue
51
Benjamin v. Lindner Aviation, Inc.
53
Notes and Questions
60
Notes and Questions
71
The Good Ship Titanic
72
Notes and Questions
72
1.5.
Acquisition of Property Rights by Creation
74
White v. Samsung Electronics America, Inc.
74
White v. Samsung Electronics America, Inc.
83
Notes and Questions
89
Davis v. Davis
92
Notes and Questions
103
Note on Surrogacy Contracts
107
1.6.
Acquisition of Property Rights by Gift
109
Gruen v. Gruen
109
Notes and Questions
114
Albinger v. Harris
117
Notes and Questions
130
Tennessee Division of the United Daughters of the Confederacy v. Vanderbilt University
130
Notes and Questions
141
Foster v. Reiss
143
Notes and Questions
154
Alcor Life Extension Foundation v. Richardson
156
Notes and Questions
166
ch. 2
Some Powers and Obligations of Possessors
169
2.1.
Powers
169
Porter v. Wertz
169
Notes and Questions
174
2.2.
Obligations
178
LaPlace v. Briere
178
Notes and Questions
182
Brown, The Law of Personal Property [§] 11.8 at 289-293 (W.D. Raushenbush Ed., 3d Ed. 1975)
183
Notes and Questions
185
Ellish v. Airport Parking Company of America, Inc.
186
Notes and Questions
192
ch. 3
Possession Leading to Title: Adverse Possession
196
3.1.
Rights of Possessor of Land
196
Tapscott v. Cobbs
196
Notes and Questions
200
3.2.
Introduction to the Law of Adverse Possession
202
3.3.
The Actual, Open, Continuous and Exclusive Requirements
205
Jarvis v. Gillespie
205
Notes and Questions
210
3.4.
State of Mind
222
Hostility
222
Notes and Questions
224
Claim Clubs, Disputes of Titles, and the Priority Principle
226
Mannillo v. Gorski
227
Notes and Questions
233
Carpenter v. Ruperto
234
Notes and Questions
237
The Innocent Improver Doctrine
239
Color of Title and Constructive Adverse Possession
241
Notes and Questions
242
Note: Efficiency, Compensation, and Adverse Possession
243
3.5.
Adverse Possession of Chattels
245
Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation v. Lubell
245
Notes and Questions
250
ch. 4
Estates in Land and Future Interests
259
4.1.
Introduction
259
Baker, Introduction to English Legal History, 3rd Ed. 1990 at 255-294
260
Notes and Questions
273
The Classification of Common Law Estates in Land
273
4.2.
The Fee Simple Absolute
277
White v. Brown
277
Notes and Questions
282
Note on the Mathematics of Estates
283
4.3.
Fee Simple Determinable and Fee Simple on Condition Subsequent ("Fee Simple Defeasibles")
288
Alby v. Banc One Financial
289
Notes and Questions
297
4.4.
Fee Tail and Fee Simple Conditional
299
Notes and Questions
302
4.5.
Life Estates and Reversions
302
4.6.
The Classification of Future Interests in Transferees
306
A.
Remainders
307
B.
Executory Interests
309
Notes and Questions
310
Note on the Valuation of Life Estates and Future Interests
312
Note on Class Gift Closing Rules
314
Note on the Importance of Classification
315
In re Estate of Houston
317
Notes and Questions
329
4.7.
Destructibility of Contingent Remainders
330
4.8.
The Rule in Shelley's Case
333
Notes and Questions
334
4.9.
The Doctrine of Worthier Title
334
Notes and Questions
335
4.10.
The Rule Against Perpetuities
336
Connecticut Bank and Trust Company v. Brody
337
Notes and Questions
343
Hansen v. Stroecker
348
Notes and Questions
351
ch. 5
Concurrent Estates
353
5.1.
Introduction
353
Notes and Questions
355
5.2.
Rights of Co-Tenants as Between Themselves
357
Cummings v. Anderson
357
Notes and Questions
362
5.3.
Severance of Concurrent Estates
366
Tenhet v. Boswell
366
Notes and Questions
370
Lakatos v. Estate of Billotti
372
Notes and Questions
375
Porter v. Porter
376
Notes and Questions
378
5.4.
Bank Accounts
379
In the Matter of the Estate of Ingram
379
Notes and Questions
385
ch. 6
Property and Cohabitants
390
6.1.
Introduction
390
6.2.
Dower and Curtesy: The Outmoded Common Law
390
6.3.
The Property Rights of a Surviving Spouse: Modern Approaches
391
Notes and Questions
392
6.4.
Tenants by the Entirety
393
United States v. Craft
393
Notes and Questions
406
6.5.
Community Property Interests
408
Younger, Community Property, Women and the Law School Curriculum, 48 N.Y.U.L.Rev. 211, 214-223 (1974)
408
Uniform Marital Property Act Prefatory Note
413
In re Marriage of Brown
418
Notes and Questions
423
6.6.
Is Education a Marital Asset?
424
O'Brien v. O'Brien
424
In re Marriage of Francis
432
Notes and Questions
439
6.7.
Property Rights of Unmarried Cohabitants
446
Ponk v. Layton
446
Notes and Questions
451
ch. 7
Leasehold Estates
456
7.1.
Introduction
456
7.2.
Classification of Tenancies
456
A.
Term for Years
457
B.
Periodic Tenancy
458
C.
Tenancy at Will
459
D.
Tenancy at Sufferance
459
Notes and Questions
459
7.3.
The Lease
461
Notes and Questions
466
Are Residential Leases Coercive Contracts?
467
7.4.
Formal Requirements of a Lease
470
Notes and Questions
471
7.5.
The Necessity of Delivering Possession
472
Hannan v. Dusch
472
Notes and Questions
478
7.6.
Problems Regarding Use of Leased Premises
481
7.6.1.
Use Restrictions Imposed Upon the Tenant by the Landlord
481
7.6.2.
Superceding Illegality and Commercial Frustration
484
Notes and Questions
486
7.6.3.
Warranty of Fitness for a Particular Purpose
486
7.7.
Interference With the Tenant's Use and Enjoyment of the Premises
488
Notes and Questions
489
7.7.1.
Constructive Eviction
489
Louisiana Leasing Company v. Sokolow
490
Notes and Questions
493
7.7.2.
Illegality Because of Lack of Habitability
497
7.7.3.
The Implied Warranty of Habitability
499
Wade v. Jobe
499
Notes and Questions
504
An Economic Note on Warranties in Leases
515
7.7.
Interference With the Tenant's Use and Enjoyment of the Premises---Continued
7.7.4.
The Implied Warranty of Suitability
518
Davidow v. Inwood North Professional Group-Phase I
518
Notes and Questions
522
7.8.
Retaliatory Eviction
522
Robinson v. Diamond Housing Corporation
522
Notes and Questions
531
Cunningham, The New Implied and Statutory Warranties of Habitability in Residential Leases: From Contract to Status
534
Notes and Questions
537
7.9.
Transfers of a Leasehold Interest
540
Jaber v. Miller
540
Notes and Questions
545
Kendall v. Ernest Pestana, Inc.
548
Notes and Questions
555
7.10.
Termination of Leasehold Estates and Reversion of the Premises
556
Sommer v. Kridel
557
Notes and Questions
564
Sagamore Corp. v. Willcutt
567
Notes and Questions
569
Note on Summary Proceedings
572
Note on Security Deposits
573
7.11.
The Holdover Tenant
575
Commonwealth Building Corp. v. Hirschfield
575
Notes and Questions
579
7.12.
Rent Control
581
Pennell v. City of San Jose
582
Braschi v. Stahl Associates Company
587
Notes and Questions
598
Note: The Economics of Rent Control
602
ch. 8
"Private" Controls of Land Use: Servitudes
607
8.1.
The Law of Servitudes: An Introduction
607
8.2.
The Creation of Servitudes
610
8.2.1.
Easements by Grant, Reservation, or Other Form of Agreement
610
Willard v. First Church of Christ, Scientist, Pacifica
610
Notes and Questions
612
8.2.2.
The Irrevocable License
615
Shearer v. Hodnette
615
Notes and Questions
618
8.2.3.
Easements by Implication and Necessity
621
Romanchuk v. Plotkin
621
Notes and Questions
625
Note: The Logic and Economics of Implied Easements
626
Roy v. Euro-Holland Vastgoed, B.V.
629
Notes and Questions
632
8.2.4.
Prescription
634
Fischer v. Grinsbergs
634
Notes and Questions
641
Interior Trails Preservation Coalition v. Swope
646
Notes and Questions
649
8.2.5.
Recognition of Public Access Rights: Implied Dedication, Custom, and the "Public Trust"
649
Matthews v. Bay Head Improvement Ass'n
649
Notes and Questions
655
8.3.
Scope
658
Farmer v. Kentucky Utilities Co.
658
Penn Bowling Recreation Center v. Hot Shoppes, Inc.
660
Notes and Questions
664
8.4.
Transfer of Obligations and Benefits
665
8.4.1.
Easements Appurtenant and in Gross
665
Martin v. Music
665
Miller v. Lutheran Conference & Camp Association
668
Notes and Questions
673
8.4.2.
Real Covenants and Equitable Servitudes: Traditional Doctrine and Modern Deviations
676
Candlewood Lake Association, Inc. v. Scott
676
Note: The Common Law of Real Covenants
679
Davidson Bros., Inc. v. D. Katz & Sons, Inc.
686
Notes and Questions
694
Neponsit Property Owners' Ass'n v. Emigrant Industrial Sav. Bank
698
Note
701
8.4.3.
Implied Burdens
702
Mid-State Equipment Co., Inc. v. Bell
702
Cash v. Granite Springs Retreat Ass'n, Inc.
709
Notes and Questions
717
Note: Implied Servitudes
721
Lalonde v. Renaud
723
Notes and Questions
724
8.5.
Easements, Covenants and Equitable Servitudes: What Is the Difference and When Does It Matter?
729
8.6.
Equitable Servitudes and the Power to Exclude
731
Hill v. Community of Damien of Molokai
731
Notes and Questions
736
8.7.
Termination and Amendment of Servitudes
738
8.7.1.
Termination by Merger, Adverse Possession and Abandonment
738
Castle Associates v. Schwartz
738
Consolidated Rail Corp. v. Lewellen
743
Notes and Questions
745
8.7.2.
Changed Conditions Warranting Termination
746
El Di, Inc. v. Town of Bethany Beach
746
Notes and Questions
750
Note: Termination by Eminent Domain
753
8.7.3.
Amendments
755
Walton v. Jaskiewicz
755
Notes and Questions
758
8.8.
Note: The (Chaotic) Market for Servitudes
759
ch. 9
"Private" Controls of Land Use: The Law of Nuisance
762
9.1.
Introduction
762
9.2.
What Is a Nuisance?
764
Prah v. Maretti
766
Notes and Questions
774
Crest Chevrolet-Oldsmobile-Cadillac, Inc. v. Willemsen
777
Hendricks v. Stalnaker
783
9.2.
What Is a Nuisance?---Continued
Robie v. Lillis
784
Notes and Questions
789
Note: Economic Development and the Law of Nuisance
792
9.3.
Remedies
793
Boomer v. Atlantic Cement Co.
793
Notes and Questions
798
Note: Remedies in Nuisance Cases: Property Rules and Liability Rules
800
Spur Industries, Inc. v. Del E. Webb Development Co.
801
Notes and Questions
805
9.4.
Social Cost, Transaction Costs, and the Law of Nuisance
807
Note: The Optimum Amount of Air Pollution
813
9.5.
Subjacent and Lateral Support
816
ch. 10
Takings, Deliberate and Inadvertent
820
10.1.
Eminent Domain
820
10.1.1.
"Public Use"
820
Hawaii Housing Authority v. Midkiff
820
Notes and Questions
825
Kelo v. City of New London, Connecticut
826
Notes and Questions
843
10.1.2.
"Just Compensation"
850
J.J. Newberry Co. v. City of East Chicago
850
Notes and Questions
854
10.2.
Inverse Condemnation
859
10.2.1.
Taking by Trespass
859
PruneYard Shopping Center v. Robins
859
Notes and Questions
861
Loretto v. Teleprompter Manhattan CATV Corp.
863
Notes and Questions
869
Nollan v. California Coastal Commission
872
Dolan v. City of Tigard
877
Notes and Questions
884
10.2.2.
Taking by Regulation
887
Pennsylvania Coal Co. v. Mahon
888
Notes and Questions
893
Penn Central Transportation Co. v. New York City
895
Notes and Questions
904
Lucas v. South Carolina Coastal Council
906
Notes and Questions
916
Stop the Beach Renourishment, Inc. v. Florida Department of Environmental Protection
933
Notes and Questions
946
Note: Impact Fees and Monetary Exactions
947
Note: The Contractarian Vision of Takings
949
Note: Takings, Compensation and Risk
951
10.2.3.
Remedies for Unconstitutional Takings
952
Note: Takings and Public Choice
956
Note: Takings and Torts
958
ch. 11
"Public" Controls of Land Use: An Introduction to Zoning and Land Use Planning
960
Is Zoning a Socially Useful Activity?
961
11.1.
The Power to Zone
963
Village of Euclid v. Ambler Realty Co.
963
11.1.
The Power to Zone---Continued
Notes and Questions
970
Note: Facial and "As Applied" Constitutional Review: Nectow
973
Note: Municipal Power to Zone and the Zoning Ordinance
974
11.2.
Legitimate Rationales of Zoning Law
976
11.2.1.
Federal Law: Zoning Limiting Expression, or Regulating Indecency and Excess?
976
City of Los Angeles v. Alameda Books
976
Notes and Questions
983
11.2.2.
The Role of State Law: Regulating Relationships and Aesthetics
989
Charter Township of Delta v. Dinolfo
989
Notes and Questions
996
Anderson v. City of Issaquah
998
Notes and Questions
1002
11.3.
Racial and Economic Exclusion
1003
11.3.1.
Exclusionary Zoning Under Federal Law
1004
Village of Arlington Heights v. Metropolitan Housing Development Corp.
1004
Notes and Questions
1008
11.3.2.
Exclusionary Zoning Under State Law
1009
Southern Burlington County N.A.A.C.P. v. Township of Mount Laurel
1009
Notes and Questions
1016
Britton v. Town of Chester
1018
Notes and Questions
1021
Note: Zoning by Small Governments
1025
11.4.
Settled Expectations and the Zoning Process
1027
11.4.1.
The Comprehensive Plan, the Zoning Amendment and "Spot" Zoning
1027
Little v. Winborn
1027
Notes and Questions
1029
City of Eastlake v. Forest City Enterprises, Inc.
1031
Board of County Commissioners of Brevard County v. Snyder
1035
Notes and Questions
1039
11.4.2.
The Variance
1041
Rowe v. City of South Portland
1041
Notes and Questions
1044
Note: Zoning and Competition
1047
11.4.3.
Nonconforming Uses
1048
Village of Valatie v. Smith
1048
Notes and Questions
1052
11.5.
Adding Flexibility to Zoning: Conditional Zoning, Floating Zones and the Planned Unit Development (PUD)
1055
St. Onge v. Donovan; Driesbaugh v. Gagnon
1055
Notes and Questions
1058
Note: The Planned Unit Development
1059
ch. 12
The Law of Housing Discrimination
1062
12.1.
Introduction: The Right to Fair Treatment in the Provision of Housing Services
1062
12.2.
"State Action" and Race Discrimination
1063
Shelley v. Kraemer
1063
Notes and Questions
1067
Legislated Residential Segregation: A Note on Buchanan v. Warley
1068
12.3.
Housing Discrimination and Federal Law: The 1866 Civil Rights Act and the 1968 Fair Housing Act
1069
Notes and Questions
1073
Harris v. Itzhaki
1076
Notes and Questions
1083
United States v. Starrett City Associates
1086
Notes and Questions
1089
Bloch v. Frischholz
1091
Notes and Questions
1099
City of Edmonds v. Oxford House, Inc.
1099
Notes and Questions
1104
Note: Fair Housing Act Violations by Local Governments
1106
12.4.
Housing Discrimination and State Law
1109
State v. French
1109
Notes and Questions
1113
ch. 13
Public Regulation of Community Ownership: Condominiums and Cooperatives
1116
13.1.
External Relations
1116
Berish v. Bornstein
1116
Notes and Questions
1120
13.2.
Internal Disputes
1121
Penney v. Association of Apartment Owners of Hale Kaanapali
1121
Notes and Questions
1123
Note: Restraints on Alienation in the Condominium Agreement
1124
A Brief Note on Housing Cooperatives
1125
ch. 14
Voluntary Transfers of Interests in Real Property: The Real Estate Transaction
1127
14.1.
Introduction: The Market for Real Property and the Land Sale Contract
1127
14.2.
The Role of Real Estate Brokers, Lawyers and Other Professionals
1129
Dworak v. Michals
1129
Notes and Questions
1132
Kubinsky v. Van Zandt Realtors
1134
Notes and Questions
1136
In re Lanza
1137
Notes and Questions
1140
Bowers v. Transamerica Title Insurance Co.
1141
Notes and Questions
1144
14.3.
The Land Sale Contract and the Statute of Frauds
1145
Wiley v. Tom Howell & Assoc., Inc.
1146
Notes and Questions
1149
14.4.
Construction and Performance of the Land Sale Contract
1151
14.4.1.
Conditions and Liquidated Damages
1151
Lynch v. Andrew
1151
Notes and Questions
1154
14.4.2.
Marketable Title
1155
Bethurem v. Hammett
1155
Notes and Questions
1159
14.4.3.
Remedies for Nonperformance
1162
A.
Specific Performance
1162
Sanders v. Knapp
1162
Notes and Questions
1163
Centex Homes Corp. v. Boag
1164
14.4.
Construction and Performance of the Land Sale Contract---Continued
Notes and Questions
1168
Note: Specific Performance and the Market for Real Property
1168
B.
Damages
1170
Beard v. S/E Joint Venture
1170
Notes and Questions
1174
Stambovsky v. Ackley
1174
14.4.4.
Risk of Loss
1180
Brush Grocery Kart, Inc. v. Sure Fire Market, Inc.
1180
Notes and Questions
1185
Note: The Risk of Loss Rule
1186
14.5.
Contractual Promises (Express and Implied) and the Doctrine of Merger
1187
Mallin v. Good
1187
Notes and Questions
1190
Redarowicz v. Ohlendorf
1191
Notes and Questions
1194
14.6.
A Brief Look at Real Estate Financing
1195
ch. 15
Voluntary Transfers of Interests in Real Property: Conveyancing by Deed
1203
15.1.
Introduction: The Rise of the Deed
1203
2 Sir WM. Blackstone, Commentaries on the Laws of England 315-16 (1765-69)
1203
15.2.
The Form of the Modern Deed
1204
Metzger v. Miller
1204
Notes and Questions
1208
15.3.
Descriptions
1211
15.3.1.
Description by Metes and Bounds
1211
15.3.2.
Description by Government Survey
1213
15.3.3.
Descriptions by Reference to Plat
1216
15.3.4.
Problems Involving Deed Descriptions
1217
Doman v. Brogan
1217
Notes and Questions
1222
15.4.
Delivery
1225
15.4.1.
Delivery to the Grantee
1225
LeMehaute v. LeMehaute
1225
Notes and Questions
1229
15.4.2.
Acceptance of the Deed
1232
Underwood v. Gillespie
1232
Notes and Questions
1235
15.4.3.
The Death Escrow
1235
Rosengrant v. Rosengrant
1235
Notes and Questions
1237
15.4.4.
The Commercial Escrow
1239
Ferguson v. Caspar
1239
Notes and Questions
1246
ch. 16
Assuring Good Title
1247
16.1.
Information Costs and the Market for Real Property
1247
16.2.
Common Law Mechanisms of Title Assurance
1249
16.2.1.
Common Law Priorities
1249
16.2.
Common Law Mechanisms of Title Assurance---Continued
16.2.2.
Deed Covenants for Title
1250
Leach v. Gunnarson
1250
Notes and Questions
1254
Note: The Quitclaim Deed as a Market Facilitator
1256
16.2.3.
Estoppel by Deed
1257
Schwenn v. Kaye
1257
Notes and Questions
1259
16.3.
The Recording Acts
1260
16.3.1.
"Record Title"---The Recording Acts and Their Interpretation
1260
Problems
1261
Haik v. Sandy City
1261
Notes and Question
1268
16.3.2.
The Title Search and the Abstract of Title
1269
16.3.3.
Persons Protected by the Recording Acts, and the Consequences of Being Unprotected
1274
A.
Bona Fide Purchasers for Value
1274
B.
Bona Fide Purchasers Without Notice
1275
Guerin v. Sunburst Oil & Gas Co.
1275
Notes and Questions
1277
Cohen v. Thomas & Son Transfer Line, Inc.
1280
Notes and Questions
1282
16.3.4.
Record Chain of Title Problems
1283
16.3.5.
The Duty to Record and the Duty to Search
1284
Witter v. Taggart
1284
Notes and Questions
1287
16.4.
Title Insurance
1287
David Hapgood, The Screwing of the Average Man 90-94 (1974)
1287
16.4.1.
The Title Policy
1290
Notes and Questions
1293
16.4.2.
Judicial Construction of the Title Policy
1295
Ryczkowski v. Chelsea Title & Guaranty Co.
1295
Notes and Questions
1296
16.5.
The Special Role of Statutes of Limitation in Clearing Land Titles
1297
Notes and Questions
1298
16.6.
Marketable Title Acts
1299
Marketable Record Title
1300
State v. Hess
1304
Notes and Questions
1313
16.7.
Land Registration Systems: A Short Note on Torrens
1315
Index
1317