Property : principles and policies / by Thomas W. Merrill, Henry E. Smith.
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Merrill, Thomas W.
Title
Property : principles and policies / by Thomas W. Merrill, Henry E. Smith.
Published
New York : Foundation Press ; [St. Paul, Minn.] : Thomson/West, 2012.
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KF560 .M47 2012
Edition
Second edition.
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9781599415765 (hbk.)
1599415763 (hbk.)
9781599415758 (pbk. ; teacher's manual)
1599415755 (pbk. ; teacher's manual)
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xliii, 1,397 pages : illustrations ; 27 cm + teacher's manual.
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(OCoLC)794415487
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Includes bibliographical references (pages xi-xiii) and index.
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Smith, Henry E.
Preface to the Second Edition
v
Preface to the First Edition
vii
Acknowledgments
xi
Table of Cases
xxxi
ch. I
What Is Property?
1
A.
Two Conceptions of Property
1
1.
Trespass to Land
1
Jacque v. Steenberg Homes, Inc.
1
Notes and Questions
7
Hinman v. Pacific Air Transport
10
Notes and Questions
13
2.
Conceptions of Property---Philosophical Perspectives
16
Idea of Property in Law / J.E. Penner
17
Notes and Questions
19
Disintegration of Property / Tom Grey
20
Notes and Questions
22
B.
Trespass/Nuisance Divide
23
1.
Nuisance
23
Hendricks v. Stalnaker
23
Notes and Questions
27
2.
Exclusion and Governance
30
3.
Coase Theorem
31
Problem of Social Cost / Ronald H. Coase
31
Notes and Questions
35
4.
Resolving Property Disputes by Contract
38
C.
Property and Equity
41
1.
Repeated Trespasses
44
Baker v. Howard County Hunt
44
Notes and Questions
51
2.
Building Encroachments
52
Pile v. Pedrick
52
Pile v. Pedrick
54
Golden Press, Inc. v. Rylands
55
Notes and Questions
57
3.
Ex Ante/Ex Post Problem
60
4.
Mistaken Improver
65
Producers Lumber & Supply Co. v. Olney Building Co.
65
Notes and Questions
72
5.
Origins and Basis of Restitution
75
Olwell v. Nye & Nissen Co.
75
Notes and Questions
78
ch. II
Original Acquisition
82
A.
First Possession
82
1.
Wild Animals
82
Pierson v. Post
82
Notes and Questions
87
Ghen v. Rich
90
Notes and Questions
93
Keeble v. Hickeringill
93
Notes and Questions
95
2.
Open Access and the Commons
97
Elinor Ostrom, Governing the Commons: The Evolution of Institutions for Collective Action
97
Notes and Questions
103
Commons, Anticommons, and Semicommons
104
3.
Other Applications of First Possession
105
B.
Discovery
113
Johnson v. M'Intosh
113
Notes and Questions
119
Land Grants From the Federal Public Domain
124
Notes and Questions
129
C.
Creation
130
1.
Misappropriation and the Quasi-Property Right in Hot News
131
International News Service v. Associated Press
131
Notes and Questions
141
2.
Right of Publicity
143
Midler v. Ford Motor Company
143
Notes and Questions
147
3.
Novelty
149
Trenton Industries v. A. E. Peterson Manufacturing Co.
150
Notes and Questions
158
D.
Principle of Accession
161
1.
Increase
161
Notes and Questions
162
2.
Doctrine of Accession
162
Wetherbee v. Green
162
Notes and Questions
166
Note on Explaining the Principle of Accession
168
3.
Ad Coelum Rule
171
Edwards v. Sims
171
Notes and Questions
177
4.
Accretion
179
Nebraska v. Iowa
179
Notes and Questions
182
5.
Fixtures
183
Strain v. Green
184
Notes and Questions
189
E.
Adverse Possession
190
Marengo Cave Co. v. Ross
190
Notes and Questions
198
Purposes of Adverse Possession
200
Adverse Possession Against the Government
202
Carpenter v. Ruperto
203
Notes and Questions
206
Howard v. Kunto
208
Notes and Questions
213
Note on Disabilities
214
Songbyrd, Inc. v. Estate of Grossman
215
Notes and Questions
218
F.
Sequential Possession Issues
220
Armory v. Delamirie
220
Notes and Questions
221
Clark v. Maloney
222
Notes and Questions
223
Anderson v. Gouldberg
223
Notes and Questions
224
Relativity of Title and Rejection of the Jus Tertii defense
225
G.
Competing Original Acquisition Principles
226
Fisher v. Steward
227
Notes and Questions
228
Goddard v. Winchell
229
Notes and Questions
231
Hannah v. Peel
233
Notes and Questions
239
Concluding Note and Questions
241
ch. III
Values Subject to Ownership
242
A.
Personhood
242
1.
Property and the Human Body
243
Moore v. Regents of the University of California
243
Notes and Questions
254
Body Parts After Moore
255
Notes and Questions
257
2.
Artists' Moral Rights
257
Phillips v. Pembroke Real Estate, Inc.
258
Notes and Questions
265
3.
Cultural Patrimony
267
United States v. Corrow
267
Notes and Questions
273
B.
Academic Perspectives on the Domain of Property
275
Toward a Theory of Property Rights / Harold Demsetz
275
Notes and Questions
279
Margaret Jane Radin, Property and Personhood
282
Notes and Questions
286
Anti-Commodification and Inalienability Rules
287
Margaret Jane Radin, Market-Inalienability
288
Notes and Questions
291
C.
Public Rights
291
1.
Navigation Servitude
291
a.
Navigable Waters
291
b.
Navigable Airspace
295
2.
Public Trust Doctrine
296
Illinois Central Railroad Co. v. Illinois
296
Notes and Questions
302
Transformation of the Public Trust Doctrine
304
Note on Purprestures
307
State of Oregon ex rel. Thornton v. Hay
308
Notes and Questions
314
Comedy of the Commons: Custom, Commerce, and Inherently Public Property / Carol Rose
317
Notes and Questions
323
D.
Water
324
1.
Watercourses
325
Evans v. Merriweather
325
Notes and Questions
329
Coffin v. Left Hand Ditch Company
330
Notes and Questions
335
Diffuse Surface Water
337
2.
Groundwater
338
Higday v. Nickolaus
338
Notes and Questions
346
E.
Broadcasting and Cyberspace
346
Tribune Co. v. Oak Leaves Broadcasting Station, Inc.
347
Notes and Questions
353
Internet Is a Semicommons / James Grimmelmann
355
Notes and Questions
359
ch. IV
Owner Sovereignty and Its Limits
361
A.
Protecting the Right to Exclude
361
1.
Criminal Laws
361
a.
Criminal Laws Protecting Personal Property
362
People v. Olivo
362
Notes and Questions
367
b.
Criminal Laws Protecting Real Property
369
2.
Civil Actions
371
a.
Civil Actions Protecting Real Property
371
b.
Civil Actions Protecting Personal Property
372
Intel Corporation v. Hamidi
374
Notes and Questions
385
3.
Self-Help
387
Berg v. Wiley
388
Notes and Questions
393
Williams v. Ford Motor Credit Company
394
Notes and Questions
398
B.
Exceptions to the Right to Exclude
399
1.
Necessity
400
Ploof v. Putnam
400
Notes and Questions
402
2.
Custom
403
McConico v. Singleton
403
Notes and Questions
404
3.
Public Accommodations Laws
406
4.
Public Policy
409
State v. Shack
409
Notes and Questions
413
Uston v. Resorts International Hotel, Inc.
415
Notes and Questions
420
5.
Antidiscrimination Laws
423
Shelley v. Kraemer
424
Notes and Questions
431
Use of Trespass Actions to Exclude Persons Based on Race
433
Fair Housing Act
435
Notes and Questions
437
Attorney General v. Desilets
439
Notes and Questions
446
C.
Other Powers of the Sovereign Owner
449
1.
Licenses
449
Wood v. Leadbitter
450
Notes and Questions
453
Equitable Enforcement of Licenses
455
ProCD, Inc. v. Zeidenberg
458
Notes and Questions
462
2.
Bailments
464
Allen v. Hyatt Regency-Nashville Hotel
464
Notes and Questions
471
Bailee's Duty of Care
472
Cowen v. Pressprich
473
Cowen v. Pressprich
479
Notes and Questions
479
Winkfield
480
Notes and Questions
485
3.
Abandonment and Destruction
485
Pocono Springs Civic Association, Inc. v. MacKenzie
486
Notes and Questions
488
Eyerman v. Mercantile Trust Co.
490
Notes and Questions
497
D.
Other Owner Powers
499
ch. V
Forms of Ownership
500
A.
Introduction
500
B.
Divisions by Time
501
Estates in Land
504
Present Possessory Interests
504
Future Interests
509
1.
Interests Retained by the Grantor
509
2.
Interests Created in a Grantee
511
Vesting
515
Problems
517
C.
Maintaining the System
517
1.
Conservation of Estates
518
Williams v. Estate of Williams
519
Notes and Questions
522
City of Klamath Falls v. Bell
523
Notes and Questions
529
Disclaimer
531
2.
Flexibility of the Estate System
532
Using the Estate System for Estate Planning
533
3.
Numerus Clausus
535
Optimal Standardization in the Law of Property: The Numerus Clausus Principle / Henry E. Smith
535
Notes and Questions
541
Johnson v. Whiton
543
Notes and Questions
544
Garner v. Gerrish
545
Notes and Questions
548
Personal Property
549
D.
Mediating Conflicts Over Time
551
1.
Waste
551
Brokaw v. Fairchild
552
Notes and Questions
558
Valuation of Interests
561
2.
Restraints on Alienation
563
Morse v. Blood
564
Notes and Questions
566
Mountain Brow Lodge No. 82, Independent Order of Odd Fellows v. Toscano
567
Notes and Questions
571
3.
Rule Against Perpetuities
572
Problems
578
Reforms
578
Problem of Dead Hand Control
579
Symphony Space, Inc. v. Pergola Properties, Inc.
580
Notes and Questions
590
Vestigial Maintenance Doctrines
592
E.
Co-Ownership and Mediating Conflicts Between Co-Owners
594
Concurrent and Marital Estates
595
1.
Partition
598
Delfino v. Vealencis
599
Notes and Questions
604
2.
Contribution and Accounting
606
Gillmor v. Gillmor
606
Notes and Questions
609
3.
Severance
610
Harms v. Sprague
611
Notes and Questions
615
4.
Special Problems of Joint Bank Accounts
617
In re Estate of Filfiley
618
Notes and Questions
623
F.
More on Marital Interests
625
O'Brien v. O'Brien
626
Notes and Questions
633
Marvin v. Marvin
635
Notes and Questions
643
ch. VI
Entity Property
646
A.
Separating Management and Possessory Rights
647
1.
Leases
647
a.
Lease Types
651
Problems
652
Note and Questions
652
b.
Independent Covenants Model
653
Paradine v. Jane
653
Notes and Questions
654
Smith v. McEnany
656
Notes and Questions
658
Duty to Deliver Possession
659
Sutton v. Temple
660
Notes and Questions
664
c.
Extensions of the Independent Covenants Model
665
Blackett v. Olanoff
666
Notes and Questions
669
Gotlieb v. Taco Bell Corporation
671
Notes and Questions
675
d.
Model of Dependent Covenants
677
Medico-Dental Building Company of Los Angeles v. Horton and Converse
678
Notes and Questions
683
Javins v. First National Realty Corp.
685
Notes and Questions
693
Consequences of the Implied Warranty of Habitability
698
Sommer v. Kridel
702
Notes and Questions
707
e.
Transfer of Interests
709
Mullendore Theatres, Inc. v. Growth Realty Investors Co.
710
Notes and Questions
711
Assignment and Sublease
713
Jaber v. Miller
717
Notes and Questions
721
Kendall v. Ernest Pestana, Inc.
722
Notes and Questions
728
f.
Form Lease
729
Questions
732
g.
Rent Control
733
Pennell v. City of San Jose
736
Notes and Questions
742
2.
Common-Interest Communities
743
a.
Tribulations of Shared Governance
745
Henry Hansmann, Condominium and Cooperative Housing: Transactional Efficiency, Tax Subsidies, and Tenure Choice
746
Notes and Questions
748
Condos Versus Coops
750
b.
Judicial Review of Governance Disputes
751
Nahrstedt v. Lakeside Village Condominium Association, Inc.
752
Notes and Questions
760
40 West 67th Street v. Pullman
763
Notes and Questions
770
Kiekel v. Four Colonies Homes Association
771
Notes and Questions
776
B.
Separating Management and Nonpossessory Interests in Property
778
1.
Trusts
778
a.
Spendthrift Trusts
781
Broadway National Bank v. Adams
781
Notes and Questions
784
b.
Trust Fiduciary Duties
785
Rothko v. Reis
786
Notes and Questions
792
c.
Changed Circumstances
794
Wilber v. Owens
794
Notes and Questions
800
2.
Corporations and Partnerships
803
ch. VII
Security Interests
807
A.
Introduction
807
B.
Liens and the Problem of Notice
810
Tappenden v. Artus
811
Notes and Questions
818
"Puzzle" of Secured Debt
822
C.
Real Estate Mortgages
823
Murphy v. Financial Development Corporation
825
Notes and Questions
832
Skendzel v. Marshall
833
Notes and Questions
839
Crystals and Mud in Property Law / Carol M. Rose
841
Notes and Questions
844
Mortgages and the Financial Crisis of 2008
846
U.S. Bank National Association v. Ibanez
849
Notes and Questions
857
ch. VIII
Title Records and the Transfer of Property
859
A.
Transfer and Alienability
860
1.
Rules Designed to Enhance Transferability
861
Statute of Frauds
862
2.
Delivery Requirement
862
Irons v. Smallpiece
863
Notes and Questions
864
Foster v. Reiss
865
Notes and Questions
870
B.
Land Transactions
871
Arko Enterprises, Inc. v. Wood
873
Notes and Questions
880
Note on Land Demarcation
881
C.
Nemo Dat
885
Kunstsammlungen zu Weimar v. Elicofon
886
Notes and Questions
890
D.
Good Faith Purchaser
891
Kotis v. Nowlin Jewelry, Inc.
892
Notes and Questions
896
Hauck v. Crawford
897
Notes and Questions
900
E.
Proving Ownership
901
Information, Uncertainty, and the Transfer of Property / Thomas Jackson
901
Notes and Questions
904
1.
Land
904
Institutional Foundations of Impersonal Exchange: Theory and Policy of Contractual Registries / Benito Arrunada
905
Notes and Questions
911
2.
Airplanes
912
3.
Ships
913
4.
Automobiles
913
5.
Art
914
6.
Intellectual Property
916
7.
Cash and Negotiability
917
F.
Recording Acts
918
Title Search and "Chain of Title"
919
Types of Recording Acts
921
Shelter Rule
923
Recording Doctrines Based on Chain of Title
924
Problems
926
Electronic Land Records
927
Hood v. Webster
929
Notes and Questions
932
Limits of Title Searches
932
Mugaas v. Smith
934
Notes and Questions
936
ch. IX
Law of Neighbors
938
A.
Nuisance
938
1.
Basic Framework
938
Adams v. Cleveland-Cliffs Iron Company
939
Notes and Questions
947
Campbell v. Seaman
949
Notes and Questions
956
2.
Property Rules, Liability Rules, and Remedies
960
Property Rules, Liability Rules, and Inalienability: One View of the Cathedral / A. Douglas Melamed
960
Notes
962
Boomer v. Atlantic Cement Company, Inc.
966
Notes and Questions
972
Spur Industries, Inc. v. Del E. Webb Development Co.
975
Notes and Questions
980
B.
Servitudes
982
1.
Easements
983
a.
Introduction
983
Baseball Publishing Co. v. Bruton
983
Varieties of Easements
986
Notes and Questions
989
b.
Creation of Easements
989
Schwab v. Timmons
990
Notes and Questions
996
Holbrook v. Taylor
997
Notes and Questions
1001
Warsaw v. Chicago Metallic Ceilings, Inc.
1002
Notes and Questions
1011
Fontainebleau Hotel Corp. v. Forty-Five Twenty Five, Inc.
1013
Notes and Questions
1016
c.
Termination of Easements
1020
d.
Misuse of Easements
1021
Penn Bowling Recreation Center, Inc. v. Hot Shoppes, Inc.
1021
Notes and Questions
1024
2.
Covenants
1025
a.
Equitable Servitudes
1026
Tulk v. Moxhay
1026
Notes and Questions
1028
b.
Real Covenants
1030
Neponsit Property Owners' Association, Inc. v. Emigrant Industrial Savings Bank
1031
Notes and Questions
1037
c.
Requirements for Covenants to Run
1038
Real Covenant Theory
1038
Equitable Servitude Theory
1040
Third Restatement
1040
Eagle Enterprises, Inc. v. Gross
1042
Notes and Questions
1045
d.
Notice and the Common Plan
1046
Sanborn v. McLean
1046
Notes and Questions
1050
e.
Conservation Easements
1050
Notes and Questions
1053
f.
Termination of Covenants
1054
Bolotin v. Rindge
1054
Notes and Questions
1058
Peckham v. Milroy
1058
Notes and Questions
1061
C.
Zoning and Other Land-Use Regulation
1062
Village of Euclid v. Ambler Realty Co.
1064
Notes and Questions
1072
Nonconforming Uses
1074
Harbison v. City of Buffalo
1074
Notes and Questions
1084
Zoning Policy
1085
Exclusionary Zoning
1088
Southern Burlington County N.A.A.C.P. v. Township of Mount Laurel
1088
Notes and Questions
1098
Religious Land Use and Institutionalized Persons Act
1099
Sts. Constantine and Helen Greek Orthodox Church, Inc. v. City of New Berlin
1099
Notes and Questions
1104
ch. X
Property as an Instrument of Social Policy
1107
A.
Copyright and the Google Books Litigation
1108
Authors Guild v. Google Inc.
1109
Notes and Questions
1116
B.
Individual Transferable Quotas (ITQs) and the Destruction of Ocean Fisheries
1118
Legal Obstacles to Private Ordering in Marine Fisheries / Jonathan H. Adler
1119
Notes and Questions
1126
Alliance Against IFQs v. Brown
1127
Notes and Questions
1133
Katrina Miriam Wyman, From Fur to Fish: Reconsidering the Evolution of Private Property
1134
Notes and Questions
1142
ch. XI
Government Forbearance
1144
A.
General Problem
1145
Charles River Bridge v. Warren Bridge
1145
Notes and Questions
1160
Forbearance Values
1162
Legislative Entrenchment
1164
B.
Due Process
1165
New Property / Charles A. Reich
1166
Notes and Questions
1172
Board of Regents v. Roth
1173
Perry v. Sindermann
1179
Notes and Questions
1182
Vail v. Board of Education of Paris Union School District No. 95
1186
Notes and Questions
1195
C.
Nonconstitutional Means of Assuring Government Forbearance
1197
1.
Vested Rights and the Canon Disfavoring Retroactive Laws
1198
Landgraf v. USI Film Products
1200
Notes and Questions
1204
Academic Perspectives on Retroactivity
1204
2.
Stare Decisis
1206
Stare Decisis in Historical Perspective: From the Founding Era to the Rehnquist Court / Thomas R. Lee
1206
Notes and Questions
1209
3.
Foreign Investment Treaties
1211
Metalclad Corp. v. United Mexican States
1211
Notes and Questions
1215
Political Risk Insurance
1216
ch. XII
Takings
1219
A.
Eminent Domain
1219
1.
Public Use Requirement
1221
Kelo v. City of New London, Connecticut
1223
Notes and Questions
1240
2.
Just Compensation
1245
United States v. Miller
1246
Notes and Questions
1250
Quick Take Statutes
1254
City of Milwaukee Post No. 2874 Veterans of Foreign Wars v. Redevelopment Authority of the City of Milwaukee
1256
Notes and Questions
1265
B.
Regulatory Takings
1267
Pennsylvania Coal Co. v. Mahon
1268
Notes and Questions
1273
Miller v. Schoene
1277
Notes and Questions
1279
Academic Perspectives on Regulatory Takings
1281
Penn Central Transportation Company v. City of New York
1285
Notes and Questions
1298
Loretto v. Teleprompter Manhattan CATV Corp.
1302
Notes and Questions
1311
Lucas v. South Carolina Coastal Council
1314
Notes and Questions
1328
Oregon Measure 37
1333
Denominator Problem
1336
Lingle v. Chevron U.S.A. Inc.
1338
Notes and Questions
1343
Meaning of "Property" for Regulatory Takings Purposes
1344
C.
Problem of Exactions
1347
Dolan v. City of Tigard
1348
Notes and Questions
1356
D.
Judicial Takings
1357
Stop the Beach Renourishment, Inc. v. Florida Department of Environmental Protection
1357
Notes and Questions
1373
Index
1377

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