Principles of Property Law

by Shelley Kurtz, Herbert Hovenkamp, Sheldon Kurtz

Book Overview

Cases and statutory law are updated and the material reorganized; conforms with modern law school course in real property. Chapters open with brief outlines of the law encompassed within, providing an... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0314150455
• ISBN13: 9780314150455
• Release Date: March 2008
• Publisher: Thomson West
• Length: 681 Pages
• Weight: 2.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.5" x 9.4"

Customer Reviews

A Law Student Must Have

This book was one of the best study aids I have ever found for any of my law school courses. It gave the black letter law and then specific examples applying that law. I highly recommend this for Property class!

good examples, could have used more explanation on some topics

This book had a lot of good hypos on each subject. However, it could have used more detail on landlord/tenant. The book also emphasized several areas that my professor wasn't too concerned about.

Excellent treatise

This is an excellent treatise on the law of property. Because the sections on Bailments, Gifts, Rights of Possessors of Land, Present Possessory Freehold Estates, and Future Interests were very useful, I would recommend this book for the first semester of property. Unfortunately, Hovenkamp's coverage of issues traditionally discussed in second semester property is not as useful. For second semester, I would suggest using Understanding Property of the Understanding Series. This series is published by Lexis. Understanding Property is also useful for first semester, but because Hovenkamp's treatise covers first semester issues well, it's not really necessary.

Another night law students dream

This is a very consise treatise of Property Law - it is not your typical hornbook - this is an excellent study book - with excelent hypos - it has very terse restatements of the law with killer Essay - hypo problems ( Lots of them too - numbers of roughly tracking the importance of the subject - IE lots of Adverse Possession probs - a few finders law probs ) - its like a Siegels or Emanuels Q & A but with hard covers - it is really a "find" for those studying property law. Im tickled the most recent edition is 2001 !

Helpful and reliable

What can you say about a hornbook? I'm trying to review the ones I use for class as fast as I finish using them, but except for famous ones like Prosser and Keeton, there's not much to do other than point out whether I found them helpful and reliable.This one was both. As an evening law student with delusions of eternal youth, I just completed two semesters of property law during summer session, and I surely found Hovenkamp's discussions useful. (In general I prefer hornbooks to casebooks anyway.) The text includes lots of sample problems as well; you may especially appreciate this feature when you discuss estates, future interests, and the Rule Against Perpetuities.I didn't notice anything that clearly set it apart from other property-law hornbooks, but we don't, after all, buy these things for the bells and whistles. It's a solid book that covers a standard subject in pretty much the standard order. Recommended to law students.