PROPERTY SYLLABUS Professor Humbach January 2013 Casebook (required): CASNER, LEACH, ET AL., PROPERTY (5th ed., 2004) ******** Important: Class preparation is essential. It may affect your grade if, on three or more occasions, you are not present or not prepared when called on in class. It may also affect your grade if you ask to not be called on. Read the following pages of the casebook and case supplement (Supp.), and carefully consider all included problems, except as otherwise indicated. You should come to class prepared with answers to the questions asked in the “Readings” downloads (on TWEN) for the day’s assignment. Reading # 1 Nature of Property: Original Acquisition pp. 1-2 (The nature and importance of property) pp. 34-54 (Pierson v. Post; Keeble v. Hickeringill; Popov v. Hayashi) Marsh v. Colby 39 Mich. 626 (1878) (Supp.) Reading # 2 Nature of Property: Rights against Others pp. 3-12 (Jacque v. Steenberg Homes) pp. 19-20 (Canons of Property Talk) pp. 54-61 (Anderson v. Beech Aircraft) Finley v. Teeter Stone, 248 A.2d 106 (Md. 1968) (Supp.) Adirondack League Club v. Sierra Club, 92 N.Y.2d 591 (1998) (Supp.) Reading # 3 Property Rights against the Regulatory State pp. 1113-15 (Miller v. Schoene) pp. 1109-13 (Pennsylvania Coal Co. v. Mahon) pp. 1168-82 (Lucas v. South Carolina Coastal Council) Reading # 4 Finders' Rights pp. 76-79 (Armory v. Delamirie) pp. 83-96 (Hannah v. Peel; McAvoy v. Medina; Benjamin v. Lindner) pp. 96-98 (Honesty, Morality and Legal Protection of Prior Possession) pp. 98-100 (treasure trove) Hurley v. City of Niagara Falls, 289 N.Y.S.2d 889 (4th Dept. 1968) (Supp.) N.Y. PERS. PROP. LAW § 251 (Supp. p. 8) [also scan §§ 252-256] Reading # 5 Bailments pp. 79-80 (Bailments) Peet v. Roth Hotel Co., 253 N.W. 546 (Minn. 1934) (Supp.) Samples v. Geary, 292 S.W. 1066 (Mo. Ct. App. 1927) (Supp.) Noworyta v. Klippert, 122 A.D.2d 548 (4th Dep't 1986) (Supp.) Pavesi v. Carollo, 105 A.D.2d 832 (2d Dep't 1984) (Supp.) pp. 80-83 (The Winkfield) Reading # 6 Adverse Possession Gillespie v. Dew (Supp.) pp. 115-24 (Johnson v. M'Intosh) pp. 125-30; 131-37 (Ewing v. Burnet; Nome 2000 v. Fagerstrom) Reading # 7 Adverse Possession (cont’d) pp. 138-47 (Lawrence v. Town of Concord) Birnbaum v. Brody, 156 A.D.2d 408 (2d Dep't 1989) (Supp.) Ray v. Beacon Hudson Mountain Corp., 88 N.Y.2d 154 (1996) (Supp.) Bova v. Vinciguerra, 184 AD2d 934 (3d Dept 1992) (Supp.) Miller v. Rau, 193 AD2d 868 (3d Dept 1993) (Supp.) pp.130-31 (Tacking) pp. 147-48 (skip question 2) -- Tolling for Disability Reading # 8 Adverse Possession (cont’d) pp. 149-56 (Kiowa Creek v. Nazarian; Dieterich v. J.S. & J. Services) Winchester v. City of Stevens Point (Supp.) Reading # 9 Gifts of Personal Property pp. 627-36 (Irons v. Smallpiece; Newell v. Nat’l Bank) pp. 642-43 (Notes 2-3; Symbolic delivery and delivery to a third person) pp. 648-53 (Gruen v. Gruen) Reading # 10 Introduction to Real Property Law pp. 297-313 THE ESTATE SYSTEM (Lessons 1 to 8), available through humbach.net Reading # 11 The Fee Simple Estates; defeasibility; the Fee Tail pp. 319-45 (Station Assocs; Red Hill; Palm Springs) pp. 66-67 of Supplement (Sample Deed Descriptions) p. 64 of Supplement (Conveyances Creating Defeasible Estates) BASIC FUTURE INTERESTS (Lessons 1 to 4), available through humbach.net p. 371 (note 2: statutory treatment of fee tail) Reading # 12 Life Estates and their Future Interests pp. 349-53 -- Nature of the Life Estate (Estate of Kinert) pp. 345-49 -- Creating a Life Estate (Nelson v. Parker) pp. 353-61 (Estate of Jackson; Hausmann v. Hausmann) Reading # 13 Introduction to Future Interests pp. 361-65 (except you can skip last paragraph on p. 365) BASIC FUTURE INTERESTS (Lessons 5-10) at humbach.net (To be used in connection with this and the next assignment.) Reading # 14 Trusts and the Statute of Uses pp. 372-73 – The Concept of Trusts pp. 313-18 – The Statute of Uses Reading # 15 Rule Against Perpetuities p. 65 of Supplement (Rule Against Perpetuities hypos) pp. 373-99 (Estate of Anderson; Symphony Space v. Pergola Properties) Reading # 16 Introduction to Leasehold Estates pp. 403-04 – the Leasehold Estates 28 Mott Street v. Summit Import, 299 N.Y.S.2d 763, 316 N.Y.S.2d 259 (1970) (Supp.) Garner v. Gerrish, 63 N.Y.2d 575 (1984) (Supp.) THE ESTATE SYSTEM (Lessons 9-16) at humbach.net EVICTIONS: THE HIDDEN HOUSING PROBLEM (excerpt)(Supp. 33) Reading # 17 Landlord & Tenant THE COMMON LAW CONCEPTION OF LEASING, pp. 1213-37 (TWEN) pp. 527-36 -- The "Dual" Relationship: Lease Assignments (Kelly v. Tri-Cities) pp. 536-51 – Sublease & Assignment (Amer. Comm’y Store v. Newman; Julian v. Christopher) Reading # 18 Landlord Breaches (Tenant's Rights); Tenant Breaches pp. 412-25 -- constructive eviction (Blackett v. Olanoff; Wesson v. Leone Enterprises) Manhattan Mansions v. Moe's, 149 Misc. 2d 43 (1990) (Supp.) pp. 426-37 (Javins v. First National Realty) RESTATEMENT (SECOND) OF CONTRACTS §237, §246 (Supp.) Holy Properties Limited v. Kenneth Cole Productions, 87 N.Y.2d 130 (1995) (Supp.) Reading # 19 Concurrent Ownership pp. 553-58 (including Martin v. Martin) pp. 568-74 (including Downing v. Downing) Hoag v. Hoag, 99 N.E. 521 (Mass. 1912) (Supp.) NY EPTL §6-2.2 (Supp.) Prario v. Novo, 645 N.Y.S.2d 269 (1996) (Supp.) pp. 581-89 (including Sawada v. Endo) Kolb v. Anisis, 478 N.Y.S.2d 720 (2d Dep't 1984) (Supp.) pp. 606-11 (including Elkus v. Elkus) Reading # 20 Express Easements; Easements by Implication pp. 889-97 (including Brown v. Penn Central) Simmons v. Abbondandolo, 184 AD2d 878 (3d Dept. 1992) (Supp.) continued… pp.897-99 (Stratis v. Doyle) pp. 903-17 (easements by estoppel and by implication from use or necessity— Mund v. English, VanSandt v. Royster, Morrell v. Rice) pp. 917-24 (easements by prescription redux; easements in invitim) Paxson v. Glovitz; Goulding v. Cook) Reading # 21 Scope of Easements US Cablevision v. Theodoreu, 192 AD2d 835 (3d Dept 1993) (Supp.) pp. 929-31; 937-38 (Davis v. Bruk & notes) pp. 939-50 (Brown v. Voss; Pasadena; Fairbrother v. Adams; Skip problem on 943) Reading # 22 Covenants and Equitable Servitudes pp. 954-61 (Background material: skim only) Orange & Rockland Utilities v. Philwold, 52 NY2d 253 (1981) (Supp.) Riverton Community Assn v. Myers, 84 A.D.2d 1063 (4th Dept. 1992) (Supp.) Malley v. Hanna, 65 NY 2d 289 (1985) (Supp.) Tulk v. Moxhay (Supp.) Reading # 23 Termination of Easements & Other Servitudes pp. 950-54 (Central Oregon Fabricators v. Hudspeth; Restatement §7.10) Orange & Rockland Utilities v. Philwold, Part III only (Supp.; reprise)