Property Outline Spring 2013
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Chapter 1 Emergence of Property Rights
a. Classic Perspectives on Property
i. Occupation
1. Res nullius
ii. Natural Law
iii. Labor
iv. Utilitarianism
v. Economics
1. Invisible Hand
2. Efficiency
a. Pareto optimal efficiency
b. Kaldor-Hicks Efficiency
c. Coase Thereom
b. Right of Publicity
i. Elements
1. Was it for commercial use?
2. Was it used to endorse profits unrelated to celebrity?
ii. Cases
1. Elvis Presley
2. Bett Middler
3. Tiger Woods
4. Vanna White
Chapter 2 Personal Property
a. Distinction between Real and Personal
i. Majority and minority rules for crops (real or personal
property?)
ii. Case
1. Wood v. Wood
b. Finders
i. General Rule- finders have the rights above all but rightful
owner
ii. Public/Private distinction
iii. Mislaid v. Lost property
iv. Treasure Troves
c. Bailees
i. Burden of Proof
ii. 2 types
d. Bona Fide Purchasers
i. Voidable title
ii. Entrustment
e. Gifts
i. Intervivos Elements
ii. Gifts Causa Mortis
iii. Testamentary
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iv. Conditional
Chapter 3 Protecting Possession
a. Possession and Sovereignty
i. Discovery
ii. Possession v occupation
iii. License
iv. Easement
b. Trespass and the Right to Exclude
i. Punitives
ii. Trespass v nuisance (see ch. 11)
c. Adverse Possession
i. elements
ii. tacking
iii. chattel
d. Jus Tertii Defense
i. Replevin
ii. Trover
e. Mistaken Improvers
i. Relative Value
f. Vertical Limits
i. Airspace
ii. Surface below
Chapter 4 Intellectual Property
a. INTRO
b. White v. Samsung
Chapter 6 Present Estates
a. Intro
b. Fee Simple Absolute
c. Fee Tail
d. Life Estate
e. Leasehold Estate
Chapter 8 Concurrent Ownership
a. Cotenants
i. Right to shared possession
1. Search and seaizure
2. Ouster
3. Partition in kind v. partition in sale
ii. Joint tenancy
iii.
b. Marital Property
i. What is it?
ii. Estate by the entirety
iii. Community property
Chapter 9 Landlord and Tenant
a. Nature of Leasehold Estates
i. License v lease
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ii. Types of leaseholds
b. Discrimination in Selection of Tenants
c. Delivery of Possession
i. American and English Rules
d. Condition of Premises
i. Covenant of Quiet Enjoyment
ii. Remedies for breach
iii. Constructive Eviction
iv. Warranty Of Habitability
v. Remedies for Reach of Warranty of Habitability
vi. Landlords Duty to protect against foreseeable acts of 3rd
parties
e. Tenant’s Use of Premises
i. Use Clauses
ii. Fixtures
iii. Fire Rules
f. Landlord’s Remedies for Tenant’s Breach
i. Duty ti mitigate damages
ii. Wrongful eviction
iii. Holdover
g. Transfers by Landlord and Tenant
i. Assignment or Sub-lease
ii. Approval Clauses
Chapter 10 Real Estate Transfers
a. Contracts of Sale
i. Statute of frauds
ii. Equitable conversion
b. Property Quality
i. Caveat emptor
ii. Patent/latent defects
iii. Duty to disclose
c. Recording System
i. Types of recording acts
Chapter 11 Private Land Use Restrictions
a. Nuisance Law
i. Public/pirvate
ii. Per se and per accidens
iii. Spite fence doctrine
iv. Coming to nuisance doctrine
Chapter 12 Government Land Use Restrictions
a. Zoning
b. Regulating Particular Uses of Land
Chapter 14 Takings
a. Eminent Domain
i. Public use
ii. Compensation value
b. What is a Taking?
i. Physical Takings
ii. Regulatory Takings
1. Zoning
2. Landmark districts
3. Exactions