PROPERTY I—SECTIONS C & D
Professor Kinsler
Office: A202
Phone: (336) 279-9346
E-Mail: jkinsler@elon.edu
Introduction: Welcome to Property I. Property I focuses on personal property and the
possession and use of real property. In Spring Semester 2009, students will be required to take
Property II, which focuses on the use and acquisition of real property.
Meeting Times/Locations:
Tuesdays
1:00 p.m.-2:00 p.m. (Room 206)
Thursdays
1:00 p.m.-2:00 p.m. (Room 206)
Fridays
1:00 p.m.-2:00 p.m. (Room 206)
Required Text:
Joseph W. Singer, Property Law: Rules, Policies, and Practices (Aspen 4th ed. 2006) (“Text”).
Assessment: Each student’s grade in this course will be determined as follows: (1) Final Exam –
70%; and (2) Mid-Term Exams, Written Assignments, and/or Quizzes – 30%.
Reading Assignments: The course outline contains 38 assignments. We will cover one
assignment per class period. For each class, students are expected to read the required
assignment (text and assigned cases, statutes, articles, etc.) and be prepared to discuss the
assigned reading and answer any pertinent questions. Copies of the cases, statutes, and articles
listed on the course outline are available on the Property I Blackboard site.
Attendance: Regular and punctual attendance is required.
COURSE OUTLINE
1
Orientation
2
Orientation
Introduction;
I. Personal Property—Lost, Mislaid and Abandoned
Property; Personal Property Remedies
Personal Property—Gifts
3
Personal Property—Theft, Entrustment and Adverse
Possession
4
Personal Property—Bailments and Fixtures
5
II. Real Property—Possession and Ownership
Present Estates & Future Interests—Fee Simples and
Defeasible Fees
Present Estates & Future Interests—Life Estates
Present Estates & Future Interests—Life Estates
(cont.)
Present Estates & Future Interests—Life Estates
(cont.), Fee Tails, and Executory Interests
6
7
8
9
10
11
Present Estates & Future Interests—Ambiguous
Conveyances
Present Estates & Future Interests—Regulation of
Future Interests
Present Estates & Future Interests—Regulation of
Future Interests (cont.)
Text 92-97
Text 75-76; Thomas v. Houston,
106 S.E. 466 (N.C. 1921); Felton
v. Cooper, 1986 WL 18603 (4th
Cir.).
Text 101-102; 225-226; Kahr v.
Markland, 543 N.E.2d 579 (Ill.
App. 1989).
Bailment Outline (Blackboard);
Miller’s Mut. Fire Ins. Ass’n v.
Parker, 65 S.E.2d 341 (N.C.
1951); Webster’s Real Estate
Law in North Carolina pp. 23-41
(Blackboard).
Text 493-494; 505-508
N.C. Gen’l Stat. 41-32
Text 508-510
Text 511-513
Text 513-515; 553-557;
Executory
Interest
Handout
(Blackboard)
Text 515-526
Text 527-529; 450-458; 460-465
Text 529-534
12
20
Present Estates & Future Interests—Regulation of
Future Interests (cont.)
Present Estates & Future Interests—Regulation of
Future Interests (cont.)
Present Estates & Future Interests—Regulation of
Future Interests (cont.)
Present Estates & Future Interests—Restraints on
Alienation
Concurrent Ownership of Property—Tenants in
Common
Concurrent Ownership of Property—Joint Tenancy
Concurrent Ownership of Property—Joint Tenancy
(cont.)
Concurrent Ownership of Property—Tenancy by the
Entirety
Leaseholds—Types
21
Leaseholds—Statute of Frauds
22
23
Leaseholds—Evicting Tenants
Leaseholds—Landlord’s Rights
24
Leaseholds—Occupancy,
Assignments,
and
Subleases
Leaseholds—Duty and Right of Continuous
Operation; Landlord’s Liability to Tenants and Third
Parties
Leaseholds—Tenant’s Rights—Covenant of Quiet
Enjoyment
13
14
15
16
17
18
19
25
26
27
28
29
30
Leaseholds—Tenant’s Rights—Implied Warranty of
Habitability
Leaseholds—Tenant’s Rights—Retaliatory Eviction;
Practice Essay Question
Leaseholds—Conclusion;
Review Practice Essay Question
III. Real Property—Use
Introduction to Servitudes; Licenses
Text 534-539
Text 539-541
Text 541-553
Text 557-564; 565-67 (notes 1, 3,
and 4); 433-439
Text 569-571; 576-581
Text 571-575; 581-587
Text 553-557; Vettori v. Fay, 137
S.E.2d 810 (N.C. 1964).
Text 575-576; 587-593
Text 639-641; Murrill v. Palmer,
80 S.E. 55 (N.C. 1913); Stout v.
Crutchfield, 204 S.E.2d 541
(N.C. App. 1974).
Text 641; Kent v. Humphries,
281 S.E.2d 43 (N.C. 1981);
Sammax, Inv. Co. v. Zindel, 150
S.E. 704 (N.C. 1929).
Text 641-650; 656-658
Text 658-670
Text 679-692
Text
692-700;
737-742;
Broughton v. Maes, 378 N.W.2d
134 (Minn. App. 1985).
Text 701-708; Eley v. L. & L.
Mfg. Co., 118 S.E. 583 (Ga. App.
1923).
Text 708-720; N.C. Gen’l Stat. §
42-42
Text 726-737; N.C. Gen’l Stat. §
42-37.1
31
Prescriptive Easements and Easements by Estoppel
Text
317-320;
Booker
v.
Cherokee Water District; Rea v.
Universal C.I.T. Credit Corp.
Text 207-215; 320-323; 328-332
32
Implied Easements and Easements by Necessity
Text 332-344
33
Express Easements
Text 344-353
34
Express Easements (cont.)
Text 353-365
35
Covenants and Equitable Servitudes
Text 365-377
36
Covenants and Equitable Servitudes (cont.)
Text 377-394
37
Covenants and Equitable Servitudes (cont.)
Text 394-406; 408-409 (note 1)
38
Covenants and Equitable Servitudes (cont.)
Text 411-419; 424 (note 1); N.C.
Gen’l Stat. 47B-2