Bergin and Haskell's Preface to Estates in Land and Future Interests, 2D (University Textbook Series)

by Thomas F. Bergin

Book Overview

Designed as an introductory coursebook for key areas of law, the Foundation Press University Textbook Series offers law students comprehensive scholarship of leading experts to deepen their knowledge... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0882771841
• ISBN13: 9780882771847
• Release Date: January 1984
• Publisher: Foundation Press
• Length: 259 Pages
• Weight: 1.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 7.0" x 10.3"

Customer Reviews

The Only Law School Text I Kept!

I was happy to see that this remarkable little book is still around. Back in 1979 my first year property professor (the excellent Shelly Kurtz, then visiting at U. Va.) required this, along with the standard casebook. He felt that no other book handled this topic so well. All these years later, it is the only one of my law school texts that is still in my library.

One of the Great Writers who happens to be a Lawyer

Tom Bergin, who is a Professor Emeritus at the University of Virginia School of Law (not North Carolina as stated above - *gasp*) and his writing partner Paul Haskell, have produced what may be the only entertaining read in the history of real estate law. Bergin, a lawyer, academic, teacher, former minor league baseball player, lets his unabashed enthusiasm for puzzling over legal issues and taking them apart come through in this short but very useful book. If you are a first year law student, or someone interested in a unique, intellectually challenging book that will give you insights into the fast departing "art" of the law, buy this book!

If you're only gonna read one future interests book this yr

I've decided to review this book because it was one of my favorite books in law school and no one else is ever going to write a review here.PTELAFI -- as I like to call it, is a very "wet" book on what is usually considered a very "dry" topic. Sure, feudal enfoeffments are not everyone's cup of tea. BUT if you ever wanted to understand that tax avoidance was invented long before checking accounts, or, just as important, why all the girls in Austen and Bronte were always trying to marry their cousin in order to keep living in the house in which they grew up... then this is the book for you.Everyone thinks I'm crazy, but "future interests" (basically dealing with how real property rights were held and cut up in the early part of the last millenium) is kind of like a fun big puzzle, isn't really that hard once you get the hang of it, as the writers of this charming little hornbook seem to understand, kind of fun when approached from the correct angle.This was also one of the clearest (and shortest) books I was assigned in law school.So bravo to Messrs. Bergin and Haskell.