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==Justifications for allocation of property== ===Acquisition through first possession=== Wild Animals ([[Pierson v. Post]]); Oil and Gas ([[Elliff v. Texxon Drilling Co.]]) Supplement: Abstracts of Bethany Berger, It's Not About the Fox: The Untold Story of Pierson v. Post, 55 Duke L. J. 1089 (2006) & Andrea McDowell, Legal Fictions in [[Pierson v. Post]], Mich. L. Rev. (2007); Hardin, The Tragedy of the Commons; Acheson, The Lobstermen of Maine ===Acquisition by Labor and Investment=== Singer 32-45, 1087-1089, 1093-1095, 1128-1129 ([[International News Service v. Associated Press]], Trademark, Copyright, and Patent Law) ===Acquisition by Governmental Fiat & Arguments from Distributive Justice=== Indian land ([[Johnson v. M'Intosh]]), government grants, freed slaves Supplement: Roe, Backlash, Franiere & Wines, Africa Quandary; Cunningham & Piore, My Fair Monkey ==Limiting the Right to Exclude== ===Limits on Property Owners' Rights to Exclude=== 103-116, 118-120, 124-130: [[State v. Shack]], [[Desnick v. ABC]], Spirit Murdering the Messenger, The Intelligent Bayesian; Civil Rights Acts ===Constitutional Limits on Rights to Exclude?=== [[Lloyd Corp v. Tanner]], Beach access Supplement: Articles on Beach Access ===Loss by Continuous Theft I: Adverse Possession=== [[Brown v. Gobble]], [[Nome 2000 v. Fagerstrom]] Supplement: Adverse Possession Supplement--Laville & Freemantle articles ===Loss by Continuous Theft II.: Prescriptive Easements & Encroachment=== [[Community Feed Store v. Northeastern Culvert Corp.]] ==Nuisance and Other Judicial Limits on Land Use in the Absence of Agreement== ===Surface Water and Support=== [[Armstrong v. Francis Corp.]], [[Friendswood Development v. Smith-Southwest Industries]] ===Nuisance I=== [[Page County Appliance Center v. Honeywell]] ===Nuisance II, Coase II and Law and Economics Analysis=== [[Fontainebleu Hotel Corp. v. Forty-Five Twenty Five]] Supplement: Jolls, Sunstein & Thaler, A Behavioral Approach to Law and Economics ===Nuisance III: Light & Air Revisited=== [[Prah v. Maretti]] ==Servitudes: [[Nonpossessory interest in land|Regulation of Land Use by Private Agreement]]== ===Easements I (affirmative servitudes)=== [[Finn v. Williams (Easement by Necessity)]], [[Green v. Lupo]] (In Gross or Appurtenant) ===Easements II=== Scope and Apportionment ([[Cox v. Glenbrook]]), Easements in Gross ([[Henley v. Continental Cablevision]]) ===Covenants I (negative servitudes)=== Creation by direct agreement, ([[Davidson Bros. v. Katz]], [[Whitinsville Plaza v. Kotseas]]); Supplement: Covenant Table (This may help to keep the different requirements straight as you are reading the materials) ===Covenants II: Implied Reciprocal Covenants and Homeowners Associations=== [[Evans v. Pollock]], Review of Restrictions ([[O'Buck v. Cottonwood Village]], [[Neuman v. Grandview]]) Supplement: Homeowner Associations Rule the Roost ===Covenants III. Racially restrictive covenants and devises=== [[Shelly v. Kramer]], [[Evans v. Abney]] ==Temporal Limitations on Property Rights== ===Estates system and future interests=== The Estates System: [[Wood v. Board County Commissioners of Fremont County]], [[Edwards v. Bradley]], Cy Pres and Rule Against Creation of New Estates ===Rule Against Perpetuities=== [[Rule Against Perpetuities]] ([[Central Delaware county authority v. Greyhound Corp.]], [[Texaco Refining & Marketing v. Samowitz]]) ===Prohibition on Waste, Racial Restrictions, and Restraints on Marriage=== Prohibition of Waste ([[Moore v. Phillips]]), Racial Restrictions, Restraints on marriage ([[Lewis v. Searles]]) Supplement: Questions on Rule Against Perpetuities Optional Supplement: Estate of Moore (Fairly straightforward recent case putting together restraint on marriage, rule against perpetuities, and construction of wills) ==Shared Ownership of Property: Family Ownership; Landlord-Tenant== ==Common Ownership & Marital Rights in Property== Common Ownership ([[Olivas v. Olivas]], [[Carr v. Deking]], [[Tehnet v. Boswell]], [[Kresha v. Kresha]]), [[Sawada v. Endo]], Marital Breakup ([[O'Brien v. O'Brien]]) ===Landlord Tenant: Regulating the Market for Shelter=== Landlord's remedies, Self-Help v. Judicial Process ([[Vasquez v. Glassboro]]) Supplement: Landlord Tenant Statute. Find the provisions concerning what constitutes a tenancy, and when a landlord may seek to terminate a tenancy, and what must a landlord do to terminate a tenancy. ===Duty to mitigate, Constructive Eviction, Summary Process=== Summary process, right to receive rent, duty to mitigate ([[Somer v. Kridel]]) Right to Quiet Enjoyment/Constructive Eviction ([[Blackett v. Olanoff]]) Find the provisions from the landlord tenant statute concerning summary process, good cause eviction, and duty to mitigate. How does the summary process statute change the regular timelines for judicial process? When may it be invoked? When may a landlord seek to evict a tenant? Does the law ever require "good cause" eviction? ===Implied Warranty of Habitability, Tort liability of landlord=== [[Javins v. First National Realty]] Supplement: Steven Gunn, Eviction Defense for Poor Tenants: Costly Compassion or Justice Served? ==Transferring Property Rights: Real Estate Transactions== ===Structure of the Real Estate Transaction, Fraudulent Non-Disclosure=== [[Johnson v. Davis]] ===Terms of the Deed; Chain of Title; Fraudulent & Forged Deeds=== [[Sabo v. Horvath]], [[Zurstrassen v. Stonier]], [[McCoy v. Love]] ===Mortgages.=== Supplement on Mortgages ==Zoning: Governmental Regulation of Land Use== ===Power to Zone and Exemptions from Zoning Law=== Prior Non-Conforming Use ([[Town of Belleville v. Parrillo's, Inc.]]), Variances ([[Westwood Commons]]), and Vested Rights ([[Stone v. City of Wilton]]). Supplement: Westwood Commons ===Challenges to exclusionary zoning & the Fair Housing Act=== FHA, Huntington Branch, [[NAACP v. Huntington]], [[Village of Belle Terre v. Borras]]; Note on [[Moore v. City of East Cleveland]]. Supplement: Announcement of Zoning Enforcement in the West End ==Takings: Governmental Power over Property, Constitutional Protection Against Governmental Power== ===Defining the Taking I: What purposes?=== [[Kelo v. City of New London]] ===Defining the Taking II: Regulatory Takings and the Ad Hoc Test=== [[Miller v. Schoene]], [[Penn Central v. NYC]] ==Defining the Taking III: Physical Invasions== Physical Invasions ([[Pruneyard Shopping Center v. Robins]], [[Loretto v. CATV]]) ===Defining the Taking IV. Regulatory deprivation=== Deprivation of Economically Viable Use ([[Lucas v. South Carolina Coastal Council]]; Palazollo; Tahoe Sierra) ===Defining the Taking V. Forfeiture & Exactions=== [[Dolan v. City of Tigard]] [[Category:General Outlines]]