Property, 7th Edition

Book Description
Publication Date: February 26, 2010 | ISBN-10: 0735588996 | ISBN-13: 978-0735588998 | Edition: 7
Widely regarded as one of the best casebooks available for any law school course, Property, now in its Seventh Edition, combines a traditional doctrinal approach with wit, erudition, and an engaging human-interest perspective that make teaching and learning Property Law a great pleasure.

Admired for generations, his landmark casebook features:

* a dynamic yet traditional pedagogy that includes cases, text, questions, problems, visual illustrations, and vibrant examples
* a flexible, modular organization that allows the book to easily adapt to a range of syllabi and course credit hours
* comprehensive coverage that encompasses the full range of property topics , with in-depth treatments of estates and future interests, servitudes, and land-use controls
* cartoons and photographs that present humorous asides and visual commentary at appropriate intervals within the text
* an accessible and unobtrusive "economic lens" for critically thinking about property issues

Updated throughout, the Seventh Edition provides:

* major changes to the proposed new Restatement (Third) of Property--highlighted, to simplify the system of estates and future interests
* additional visual aids and problems in the estates and future interests chapters
* a fresh look at marital property law, including the recent gay marriage case from the Iowa Supreme Court
* simplified coverage of servitudes, particularly covenants and equitable servitudes
* new signposts in every chapter that link topics in the casebook to sources on the website
* recent developments in the law governing the landlord-tenant relationship in government-assisted housing
* a timely view of the mortgage crisis and changes in real estate financing
* streamlined coverage of zoning flexibility
* a new case and material on Religious Land Use and the Institutionalized Persons Act
* updates in land use regulation, environmental law, climate change, and "smart growth"
* icons added throughout the text to indicate which materials have online counterparts on the companion website,