PART ONE: Possession,Personal Property,and Adverse Possession 1
1.The Law of Property 3
2.Personal Property and Possession 15
3.The Law of Finders and Prior Possessors 39
4.Bailments 55
5.Gifts 67
6.Good Faith or Bona Fide Purchasers 73
7.Fixtures 81
8.Adverse Possession 85
PART TWO: Common Law Estates and Interests in Real Property 105
9.Common Law Estates 107
10.Future Interests 133
11.Some Special Rules of Construction 155
12.The Rule Against Perpetuities 163
13.Concurrent Interests 181
14.Marital Estates 203
15.The Law of Waste 215
PART THREE: The Law of Landlord and Tenant 223
16.The Landlord and Tenant Relationship 225
17.Transfers of the Lease 241
18.Waste,Repair,and Destruction of Leased Premises 255
19.Termination and Abandonment of the Lease 263
20.Achieving Habitable Premises 281
21.Premise Liability of Landlords 305
22.The Holdover Tenant and Concluding Comments 315
PART FOUR: Transfers of Land 323
23.The Sales Contract 325
24.Executory Period Issues 341
25.Real Estate Closings 363
26.Post-Closing Title Assurances 381
27.The Recording Systems 403
PART FIVE: Private Land Use Controls 429
28.Private Nuisance 431
29.Creation of Easements 441
30.Assignability,Scope,and Termination of Easements 467
31.Real Covenants and Equitable Servitudes: Running with the Land 485
32.Real Covenants and Equitable Servitudes: Common Schemes and Termination 505
PART SIX:Public Land Use Controls 523
33.Constitutional and Statutory Constraints on Zoning 525
34.Variances,Special Exceptions,and Zoning Amendments 541
35.Selected Challenges to Zoning Ordinances 561
36.Takings 583
Table of Cases 605
Index 609