Property: Examples & Explanations

Examples & Explanations

by Barlow Burke, Joseph A. Snoe

Property: Examples & Explanations is a study aid that offers clear textual introductions to legal terms and concepts in property law, followed by examples and explanations that test and apply the reader’s understanding of the material covered.

Features:

Eminently clear and readable text
Examples and explanations enable students to test and apply their understanding of the material covered in each chapter
Six-part topical organization matches the coverage of Dukeminier/Krier/Alexander/Schill (#1-selling casebook for Property) and corresponds to coverage in most first-year property courses
Rich pedagogy includes boldfaced legal terms and visual aids, such as charts and diagrams, especially for common-law estates—a topic that lends itself to diagrammatic presentation
Cites principal cases used in most leading casebooks
Skilled authorship: Burke is the author of the successful Real Estate E&E and numerous works for practitioners; Snoe has his own West health law casebook

New to the Fourth Edition:
Overview, examples and explanations revised for greater clarity and effectiveness as needed
Language in the text has been simplified where needed for even greater accessibility
Expanded coverage of Fixtures
Reinforcement of terminology in Estates in Land and in Future Interests
Builds on trend in third edition of using illustrative examples in the overview of Future Interests and of Rule Against Perpetuities
Rule Against Perpetuities chapter reorganized
Restatement (Third) of Property proposals explained in the chapters on Estates in Land, Future Interests, and Rule Against Perpetuities chapters

Genres: Law

644 pages, Paperback

Published January 12, 2012

Reviews

[Breanna McClarey · Rating 4 out of 5]

Helpful property law supplement. Did it save my grade? We will see.

[Anonymous Lawstudent · Rating 5 out of 5]

Excellent. My property TA friend uses this and won’t return it to me because of how good it is. I hope that one day this book will be returned to my loving hands so that I may be able to caress its pages and reread it.

[Kelly Mai · Rating 2 out of 5]

a last ditch effort to stay in school
upDATE: did not get an A- in property so TWO STARS

[An Hosek]

Would’ve never understood life estates and future interests without this. loved that the examples were relatively short. need to get passed around at a party like Blackacre getting passed around to every landowner in the world

[Kathryn · Rating 3 out of 5]

I'm generally a big fan of the Examples and Explanations series, but this was a bit less clear to me than some of the others. I think it had to do with its structure, but I blame that less on the book than on the subject of Property, which is a rather disaggregated course/ subject to begin with. Perhaps I was hoping for too much.

[Ubiquitousbastard · Rating 2 out of 5]

I think that the end of chapter questions often made the subject more and not less confusing. This is especially the case in instances where the authors included extraneous and unimportant information in the answer that fully clouded the issue. I also thought that the coverage of the subjects lessened as I got further into the book and seemed to be rushed.

[Dylan Kochan · Rating 4 out of 5]

A solid reference for American property law and provides great practice problems to drill the concepts. This book helped me grasp the Rule Against Perpetuities and better understand future interests!