Fundamentals of Property Law

, by Burke, Barlow; Burkhart, Ann M.; Helmholz, R. H.

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Supplemental Materials

Dedication

Preface

vii

Summary Table of Contents

Personal Property

(128)

Wild Animals

(17)

Pierson v. Post

(3)

Notes

(2)

Buster v. Newkirk

(1)

Notes

(1)

Keeble v. Hickeringill

(1)

Notes

(1)

Dapson v. Daly

(1)

Notes

(1)

State of Ohio v. Shaw

(2)

Notes

(1)

Ghen v. Rich

(2)

Notes

(1)

State of North Dakota v. Dickinson Cheese Co., Inc

(1)

Notes

(1)

Classifying Property as Real or Personal

(7)

Haslem v. Lockwood

(3)

Goddard v. Winchell

(3)

Notes

(1)

Acquiring Abandoned Property

(5)

Eads v. Brazelton

(2)

Notes

(3)

Finders' Rights

(14)

Armory v. Delamirie

(1)

Clark v. Maloney

(1)

Barker v. Bates

(1)

Notes

(2)

South Staffordshire Water Co. v. Sharman

(2)

Hannah v. Peel

(3)

Notes

(2)

Favorite v. Miller

(3)

Notes

(1)

Bailments

(25)

Peet v. The Roth Hotel Co

(3)

Notes

(2)

Allen v. Hyatt Regency---Nashville Hotel

(5)

Notes

(1)

Cowen v. Pressprich

(3)

Notes

(1)

Carr v. Hoosier Photo Supplies, Inc

(5)

Notes

(3)

A Note on Pawnbrokers

(1)

Gifts

(14)

Gifts Inter Vivos

(1)

Irons v. Smallpiece

(1)

Notes

(1)

Gruen v. Gruen

(5)

Notes

(2)

Gifts Causa Mortis

(1)

Woo v. Smart

(4)

Notes

(1)

Unauthorized Possession and Bona Fide Purchasers

(25)

Anderson v. Gouldberg

(1)

Notes

(2)

Russell v. Hill

(1)

Notes

(1)

Porter v. Wertz

(8)

Notes

(1)

Note on Adverse Possessors of Personal Property

(1)

Chapin v. Freeland

(1)

Notes

(2)

Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation v. Lubell

100

(5)

Notes

105

(1)

A Note on the Scope of Conversion

106

(2)

Accession

108

(11)

Bank of America v. J. & S. Auto Repairs

111

(7)

Notes

118

(1)

Fixtures

119

(10)

Wyoming State Farm Loan Bd. v. Farm Credit Sys. Capital Corp

119

(5)

Notes

124

(5)

The Law of Neighbors

129

(92)

Adverse Possession

129

(14)

The Statutory Basis

129

(1)

Fleming v. Griswold

130

(1)

Notes and Problems

131

(1)

The Elements of Adverse Possession

131

(1)

Anderson v. Cold Spring Tungsten, Inc.

132

(4)

Dillaha v. Temple

136

(2)

Notes

138

(1)

The Policy and Future of Adverse Possession

139

(1)

Meyer v. Law

139

(3)

Notes

142

(1)

Rights of Lateral and Subjacent Support

143

(14)

Lateral Support

143

(1)

Noone v. Price

144

(4)

Notes

148

(2)

Modifying the Duty of Support by Statute

150

(1)

Subjacent Support

151

(1)

Island Creek Coal Co. v. Rodgers

151

(5)

Notes

156

(1)

Air and Light

157

(27)

Airspace

157

(1)

Murphy v. Bolger

157

(1)

Notes

158

(1)

United States v. Causby

159

(6)

Notes

165

(2)

Rights in Air and Light

167

(1)

Sundowner, Inc. v. King

167

(2)

Notes

169

(2)

Fontainebleau Hotel Corp. v. Forty-Five Twenty-Five, Inc.

171

(3)

Notes

174

(2)

Prah v. Maretti

176

(6)

Notes

182

(2)

Nuisance

184

(22)

Bove v. Donner-Hanna Coke Corp

185

(4)

Notes

189

(1)

Griffin v. Northridge

190

(4)

Notes

194

(1)

Boomer v. Atlantic Cement Co.

194

(5)

Notes

199

(2)

Robert C. Ellickson, Alternatives to Zoning: Covenants, Nuisance Rules, and Fines as Land Use Controls, 40 U. Chi. L. Rev. 681, 722-24 (1973)

201

(1)

Notes

202

(4)

Water Rights

206

(15)

Diffuse Surface Water

206

(1)

Westland Skating Ctr., Inc. v. Gus Machado Buick, Inc.

206

(5)

Notes

211

(1)

Groundwater

212

(1)

MacArtor v. The Graylyn Crest III Swim Club, Inc.

212

(3)

Notes

215

(1)

Riparian and Littoral Rights

216

(1)

Notes

217

(4)

Estates in Land

221

(120)

The Fee Simple

221

(17)

Johnson v. Whiton

221

(2)

Notes

223

(1)

Hall v. Hall

224

(3)

Peters v. East Penn Township School District

227

(2)

Notes

229

(1)

Mountain Brow Lodge No. 82, Independent Order of Odd Fellows v. Toscano

230

(3)

Notes

233

(1)

Bank of Powhattan v. Rooney

233

(2)

Notes

235

(1)

Estate of Elizabeth Beck

236

(1)

Notes

237

(1)

The Fee Tail

238

(6)

Armstrong v. Smith

240

(4)

Notes and Problems

244

(1)

The Life Estate

244

(17)

Thompson v. Baxter

245

(3)

Notes

248

(1)

Smith v. Smith

249

(2)

Notes

251

(1)

Brokaw v. Fairchild

251

(4)

Notes

255

(1)

New York, O. & W. R. Co. v. Livingston

256

(3)

Notes

259

(1)

Tillman v. Richton Tie and Timber Co.

259

(1)

Notes

260

(1)

Marital Estates

261

(11)

The Common Law

261

(1)

Melenky v. Melen

262

(1)

Notes

263

(1)

Statutory Changes in Marital Estates

264

(2)

Community Property

266

(1)

In re Kessler's Estate

266

(5)

Notes and Problems

271

(1)

Homestead Rights

271

(1)

Concurrent Estates

272

(14)

Basic Characteristics

272

(2)

The Creation of Concurrent Tenancies

274

(1)

Camp v. Camp

274

(3)

Relations among Concurrent Tenants

277

(1)

The Termination of Concurrent Tenancies

278

(1)

Riddle v. Harmon

278

(5)

Notes

283

(1)

Allison v. Powell

283

(2)

Notes

285

(1)

Reversions, Reverters, and Powers of Termination

286

(8)

Village of Peoria Heights v. Keithley

286

(2)

Problems

288

(1)

Trustees of Calvary Presbyterian Church v. Putnam

288

(2)

Notes

290

(1)

Long v. Long

290

(4)

Remainders

294

(22)

The Creation of Remainders

294

(1)

McRorie v. Creswell

294

(3)

Notes

297

(1)

Stewart v. Merchants Nat'l Bank of Aurora

298

(3)

Notes and Problems

301

(1)

The Classification and Characteristics of Remainders

302

(1)

Ryan v. Monaghan

302

(1)

Buckley v. Buckley

303

(1)

Notes and Questions

304

(3)

Danz v. Danz

307

(2)

Notes and Questions

309

(1)

Black v. Todd

310

(2)

Browning v. Sacrison

312

(3)

Notes

315

(1)

The Statute of Uses and Executory Interests

316

(4)

Blackman v. Fysh

317

(2)

Notes

319

(1)

Powers of Appointment

320

(8)

The Nature of Powers

320

(1)

Gilman v. Bell

320

(1)

Bank of Dallas v. Republic Nat'l Bank of Dallas

321

(2)

Notes

323

(1)

Varieties of Powers

324

(1)

In re Rowlands' Estate

325

(3)

Notes

328

(1)

The Rule Against Perpetuities

328

(13)

United Virginia Bank/Citizens & Marine v. Union Oil Co.

329

(3)

Notes

332

(1)

Jee v. Audley

333

(1)

In re Manson's Estate

334

(2)

Problems

336

(1)

Sears v. Coolidge

337

(3)

Notes

340

(1)

Landlord and Tenant

341

(142)

Types of Tenancies

341

(2)

Alfano v. Donnelly

342

(1)

Notes

343

(1)

Creation

343

(11)

Note on Tenant's Right to Possession

344

(1)

Hannan v. Dusch

344

(8)

Notes

352

(2)

The Structure of Leases

354

(5)

Woodbrook Assocs., Inc. v. Prospect

354

(5)

Notes

359

(1)

Illegality and Frustration of Purpose

359

(5)

Illegality

359

(1)

Frustration

360

(2)

Smith v. Roberts

362

(1)

Notes

363

(1)

The Covenant of Quiet Enjoyment

364

(7)

Blackett v. Olanoff

364

(2)

Echo Consulting Servs., Inc. v. North Conway Bank

366

(4)

Notes

370

(1)

The Covenant to Repair

371

(7)

Van Wormer v. Crane

372

(2)

Notes

374

(3)

Stewart v. Childs Co.

377

(1)

The Implied Covenant of Habitability

378

(10)

Wade v. Jobe

379

(4)

Notes

383

(2)

Hilder v. St. Peter

385

(2)

Notes

387

(1)

A Landlord's Tort Liability

388

(14)

Borders v. Roseberry

388

(5)

Notes

393

(1)

Feld v. Merriam

394

(6)

Notes

400

(2)

Assignments and Subleases

402

(28)

Diagram 1: Landlord-Tenant Relationship

402

(1)

Diagram 2: Sublease

403

(1)

Diagram 3: Assignment

404

(1)

Diagram 4: Jaber v. Miller

405

(2)

Assumption and Novation

407

(1)

Diagram 5: Assumption

408

(1)

Diagram 6: Novation

408

(1)

First American Nat'l Bank of Nashville v. Chicken Sys. of America, Inc.

409

(4)

Notes

413

(2)

Problems

415

(1)

Transfer Restrictions

415

(1)

Julian v. Christopher

415

(5)

Notes

420

(1)

Assignments and Real Covenants

421

(1)

Abbott v. Bob's U-Drive

421

(5)

Notes

426

(1)

Sublessees in Bankruptcy

426

(1)

In re 48th Street Steakhouse, Inc.

426

(3)

Notes

429

(1)

Termination

430

(30)

Notice of Termination

430

(1)

Term for Years

430

(1)

Periodic Tenancy

430

(1)

S.D.G. v. Inventory Control Company

431

(1)

Tenancy at Will

432

(1)

Tenancy at Sufferance

432

(1)

Surrender and Abandonment

433

(1)

The Traditional Rule

433

(1)

A Corollary Rule, Accepted in a Majority of States

433

(1)

Sagamore Corp. v. Willcutt

433

(2)

Notes

435

(1)

Austin Hill Country Realty, Inc. v. Palisades Plaza, Inc.

436

(5)

Notes

441

(4)

Schneiker v. Gordon

445

(5)

Notes

450

(2)

Problems

452

(1)

The Holdover Tenant

452

(1)

A.H. Fetting Mfg. Jewelry Co. v. Waltz

453

(4)

Notes

457

(3)

The Landlord's Self-Help

460

(5)

Bass v. Boetel & Co.

460

(5)

Questions

465

(1)

Summary Procedure

465

(3)

Problems

468

(1)

Retaliatory Eviction

468

(7)

Building Monitoring Sys., Inc. v. Paxton

468

(5)

Notes

473

(2)

Security Deposits

475

(8)

Notes

477

(1)

Mountain Queen Condominium Ass'n, Inc. v. Haan

477

(4)

Notes

481

(2)

Land Conveyancing

483

(222)

Real Estate Agents

484

(13)

Quintin Johnstone, Land Transfers: Process and Processors, 22 Val. U. L. Rev. 493, 494-99 (1988)

484

(3)

Notes

487

(1)

Listing Agreement

488

(1)

Notes

488

(2)

Tristram's Landing, Inc. v. Wait

490

(4)

Notes

494

(3)

Problems

497

(1)

Contracts of Sale

497

(39)

The Statute of Frauds

497

(2)

Cash v. Maddox

499

(1)

Notes

500

(1)

Problems

500

(1)

Equitable Conversion

500

(2)

Bryant v. Willison Real Estate Co.

502

(4)

Notes

506

(1)

Contract Contingencies

507

(1)

Disclosures About the Property

508

(1)

Time for Performance of the Contract

508

(1)

Problems

509

(1)

Express ``Subject to Financing'' Contract Terms

509

(2)

Bruyere v. Jade Realty Corp.

511

(1)

Notes

512

(1)

Implied Contract Terms

512

(3)

Notes

515

(1)

Breaks in the Chain of Title

515

(1)

Trimboli v. Kinkel

516

(2)

Express Title Standards in Contracts

518

(1)

Problems

519

(1)

Quantity or Acreage Disputes

519

(1)

Turner v. Ferrin

519

(7)

Notes

526

(1)

Contract Remedies

526

(1)

Damages

526

(2)

Specific Performance

528

(1)

Rescission

529

(1)

Other Remedies

530

(1)

Installment Land Sale Contracts

530

(1)

Installment Land Sale Contract

531

(1)

Notes

532

(4)

Land Transfers

536

(60)

History of Common Law Conveyancing

536

(1)

Rufford G. Patton & Carroll G. Patton, Patton on Land Titles 3-8 (2d ed. 1957)

536

(2)

Modern Conveyancing

538

(4)

Anderson v. Anderson

542

(5)

Notes

547

(1)

Statutory Short Form Deeds

548

(1)

Notes and Problems

549

(4)

Deed Covenants

553

(1)

Breach of Covenants

553

(1)

Brown v. Lober

554

(4)

Notes

558

(1)

Running with the Land

559

(1)

Proffitt v. Isley

559

(1)

Notes

560

(1)

St. Paul Title Insurance Corporation v. Owen

561

(4)

Notes

565

(2)

Legal Descriptions

567

(1)

Government Survey System

567

(3)

Metes and Bounds

570

(2)

Recorded Subdivision Plat

572

(2)

John E. Cribbet & Corwin W. Johnson, Principles of the Law of Property 209-12 (3d ed. 1989)

574

(2)

Intent, Delivery, and Acceptance

576

(1)

Brtek v. Cihal

576

(7)

Notes

583

(1)

Turner v. Mallernee

584

(7)

Notes

591

(1)

Underwood v. Gillespie

592

(4)

Notes

596

(1)

Recording Acts

596

(56)

History of the Recording Acts

597

(1)

Operation of the Recording Acts

598

(1)

Grant S. Nelson & Dale A. Whitman, Real Estate Transfer, Finance, and Development 210-14 (5th ed. 1998)

599

(4)

Problems

603

(1)

Indexes

604

(1)

Grantor-Grantee Index

605

(3)

Tract Index

608

(1)

Bona Fide Purchasers

609

(1)

Lack of Notice

609

(2)

In re Barnacle

611

(4)

Notes

615

(1)

J.C. Penney Co. v. Giant Eagle, Inc

615

(3)

Notes

618

(1)

Methonen v. Stone

619

(4)

Notes

623

(1)

Payment of Consideration

623

(1)

Geo. M. McDonald & Co. v. Johns

623

(3)

Notes and Problems

626

(1)

Bona Fide Purchaser Filter

626

(1)

Chergosky v. Crosstown Bell, Inc.

627

(5)

Recording and Indexing

632

(1)

Zimmer v. Sundell

632

(3)

Problems

635

(1)

Frank v. Storer

635

(5)

Notes

640

(2)

Skelton v. Martin

642

(2)

Notes

644

(1)

Exclusions from the Recording Act

645

(1)

Mugaas v. Smith

645

(3)

Notes

648

(1)

Mountain States Telephone and Telegraph Co. v. Kelton

649

(3)

Notes

652

(1)

Torrens Registration

652

(5)

Notes

657

(1)

Title Insurance

657

(27)

Notes

670

(1)

Swanson v. Safeco Title Insurance Co.

671

(5)

Notes

676

(1)

Greenberg v. Stewart Title Guaranty Co.

677

(6)

Notes

683

(1)

Closings and Escrows

684

(21)

Ferguson v. Caspar

684

(8)

Notes

692

(3)

Lechner v. Halling

695

(8)

Notes

703

(2)

Servitudes and Easements

705

(74)

Easements

705

(39)

Creation of Easements

706

(1)

Estate of Thomson v. Wade

706

(1)

Notes

707

(1)

Baseball Publishing Co. v. Bruton

708

(2)

Bunn. v. Offutt

710

(2)

Notes

712

(1)

Easements Implied by Necessity

713

(1)

Kingsley v. Gouldsborough Land Improvement Co.

714

(1)

Notes

715

(1)

Chandler Flyers, Inc. v. Stellar Development Corp.

715

(2)

Notes

717

(1)

Hollars v. Church of God of Apostolic Faith, Inc.

718

(2)

Notes

720

(1)

Easements Implied by Past Use

720

(1)

Flax v. Smith

721

(2)

Prescriptive Easements

723

(1)

Reed v. Piedimonte

723

(1)

Notes

724

(1)

State ex rel. Haman v. Fox

724

(6)

Notes

730

(1)

Scope of the Easement

731

(1)

Brown v. Voss

731

(5)

Hayes v. Aquia Marina, Inc.

736

(4)

Notes

740

(1)

Termination of Easements

741

(1)

Lindsey v. Clark

741

(3)

Real Covenants

744

(14)

Rogers v. Watson

745

(2)

Notes

747

(1)

Neponsit Property Owners Ass'n v. Emigrant Industrial Savings Bank

748

(6)

Notes

754

(1)

Feider v. Feider

755

(3)

Equitable Servitudes

758

(15)

Creation

758

(1)

Tulk v. Moxhay

758

(1)

Notes

759

(1)

Enforcement

760

(1)

Houghton v. Rizzo

760

(4)

Notes

764

(1)

Citizens for Covenant Compliance v. Anderson

764

(9)

Termination of Covenants

773

(6)

Grange v. Korff

774

(3)

Notes

777

(2)

Takings and Land Use Controls

779

(184)

Takings

779

(94)

Taking

780

(1)

Federal Constitution

780

(1)

Pennsylvania Coal Co. v. Mahon

780

(6)

Notes

786

(2)

Keystone Bituminous Coal Association v. DeBenedictis

788

(11)

Notes

799

(1)

State Constitution

799

(1)

Pratt v. State, Department of Natural Resources

799

(7)

Notes

806

(1)

Categorical Takings

807

(1)

Notes

808

(1)

Lucas v. South Carolina Coastal Council

809

(15)

Notes

824

(1)

Exactions and Impact Fees

825

(1)

Dolan v. City of Tigard

826

(12)

Notes

838

(2)

Private Property

840

(1)

City of Oakland v. Oakland Raiders

840

(5)

Notes

845

(1)

Walker v. State

846

(2)

Notes

848

(1)

Public Purpose

849

(1)

Hawaii Housing Authority v. Midkiff

850

(6)

Notes

856

(1)

Karesh v. City Council of Charleston

857

(3)

Notes

860

(1)

Just Compensation

861

(1)

First English Evangelical Lutheran Church v. County of Los Angeles

862

(10)

Notes

872

(1)

Land Use Controls

873

(90)

Zoning Actions

873

(1)

Zoning

874

(1)

Village of Euclid v. Ambler Realty Co.

874

(8)

Notes

882

(1)

Nonconforming Use

883

(1)

Village of Valatie v. Smith

883

(5)

Notes

888

(2)

Zoning Amendment

890

(1)

City of Pharr v. Tippitt

890

(5)

Notes

895

(1)

Variance

896

(1)

Alumni Control Board v. City of Lincoln

896

(3)

Notes

899

(2)

Schultz v. Pritts

901

(8)

Notes

909

(1)

Modern Zoning Techniques

910

(1)

Rodgers v. Village of Tarrytown

911

(5)

Notes

916

(1)

Exclusionary Zoning

916

(1)

Federal Courts

917

(1)

Village of Arlington Heights v. Metropolitan Housing Development Corporation

917

(9)

Notes

926

(1)

State Courts

927

(1)

Britton v. Town of Chester

927

(7)

Notes

934

(1)

Residency Restrictions

935

(1)

Village of Belle Terre v. Boraas

936

(6)

Notes

942

(2)

Costley v. Caromin House, Inc.

944

(4)

Notes

948

(1)

Aesthetic Regulation

949

(1)

State ex rel. Stoyanoff v. Berkeley

950

(6)

Notes

956

(1)

Society for Ethical Culture v. Spatt

957

(4)

Notes

961

(2)

Intellectual Property

963

(62)

Misappropriation of Information

963

(15)

International News Service v. The Associated Press

963

(10)

Board of Trade of Chicago v. Dow Jones & Co.

973

(5)

Notes

978

(1)

Copyrights

978

(11)

Rockford Map Publishers, Inc. v. Directory Serv. Co.

978

(4)

Notes

982

(3)

Mid America Title Co. v. Kirk

985

(3)

Notes

988

(1)

Moral Rights of Artists

989

(10)

Moakley v. Eastwick

992

(2)

Notes

994

(5)

The Right to Publicity

999

(18)

Martin Luther King, Jr. Center for Social Change v. American Heritage Products

1000

(9)

Notes

1009

(2)

Tony Stephano v. News Group Publications, Inc.

1011

(6)

Patents

1017

(8)

Rasterops v. Radius, Inc.

1018

(1)

Problems

1019

(1)

In re Cronyn

1019

(4)

Notes

1023

(2)

Table of Cases

1025

(20)

Index

1045

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