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1. Exclusion (Ch 1) a. Trespass and Limits on the Right to Exclude i. 3-33 1. State v. Shack 2. Commonwealth v. Magadini a. Desnick b. Food Lion 3. Utson b. Public Accommodations Statutes i. 43-56 1. CRA of 1965 2. CRA of 1866 3. Notes a. Private Clubs b. Common Carriers 4. NY Executive Law, Art 15 a. Boy Scouts b. Gender discrimination c. Trespass Remedies i. 34-43 1. Glavin v. Eckman 2. Jacque v. Steenberg Homes a. Was the punitive damage excessive? 3. Hohfeldian d. Homelessness i. 82-85 1. Not Full Cases: a. Pottinger v. City of Miami b. Tobe v. City of Santa Ana 2. Notes: Sex offenders 2. Nuisance (Ch 6) a. Nuisance i. 337-346; 349-358

1. Dobbs v. Wiggins 3. Acquisition of Property & Distributional Questions (Ch 7) a. Property and Sovereignty i. 87-88 1. Note: United States & American Indian Sovereignty b. Johnson a nd Acquisition of Land by Conquest i. Canvas Handout c. Acquisition of Land & Distribution i. 98-111 1. Justifications a. First possession/occupancy b. Labor & investment c. Efficiency and maximization of social welfare d. Distributive justice e. Sovereign authority/might makes right 2. Government Grants a. Homestead acts & land grants b. Squatters i. Squatters on tribal lands c. Note: James Willard Hurst, Law and the Conditions of Freedom in the 19th Century U.S. 3. Freed Slaves 4. Basic Needs Fulfillment d. Property Formation in Everyday Life i. 167-172 1. Erving Goffman, Asylums: Essays on Social Situation of Mental Patients and Other Inmates a. Note: Homeless have no private place to store e. Labor and Investment i. 111-128 1. International News Service v. Associated Press 2. Note: Commonly owned property: tragedy or comedy? 3. Note: Ownership of labor

f. Gifts and Inheritance i. 134-135 1. Note g. Possession and Capture i. 135-146 1. Pierson v. Post (wild animals) a. Note: Social utility of encouraging productive labor b. Note: What if he had been trespassing? c. Note: Custom 2. Popov v. Hayashi a. Note: Equitable division (since windfall) to avoid total loss is efficient h. Relativity of Title: Possession, Finding i. 151-163 1. Possession a. Willcox v. Stroup 2. Relativity: (finders rights) a. Armory v. Delamirie i. Conflicts between finders and subsequent possessors ii. Conflicts between finders and “rightful owners” iii. Conflicts between the finder and the owner of the premises where the property was found b. Charrier v. Bell i. Cultural property 4. Real Estate Transactions, Recording Title, Relativity of Title a. Statute of Frauds v Part Performance/Estoppel i. 927-936 1. Burns v. McCormick 2. Hickey v. Green 3. Note (Exceptions to SOF) a. Part performance

b. Estoppel c. Constructive trust b. Breaches; Deeds i. 940-956 1. *No Cases* 2. Breaches/damages/remedies? 3. Deeds? c. Recording Acts i. 995-1008 1. Notes 2. Sabo v. Horvath a. Note: Actual v. constructive notice b. Note: Estoppel by deed c. Note: Shelter doctrine d. Title i. 1014-1016 1. *No Cases* 2. Marketable Title Acts and Other Ways to Clear Title 3. Title Companies and the Recording System 4. Title Registrations (title registration systems?) 5. Turning Trespass into Ownership or Right to Use: Adverse Possession & Prescriptive Easements (Ch 5) a. Adverse Possession i. 287-315 1. Border Disputes a. Brown v. Gobble i. Note: Adverse possession claims generate substantial litigation 2. Color of Title a. Romero v. Garcia 3. Squatters a. Nome 2000 v. Fagerstrom

4. Note “Justifications for Adverse Possession: Roots which we should not disturb/land piracy” b. Other Ways to Resolve Boundary Disputes i. 331-332 1. Note: Oral agreement, acquiescence, estoppel, or laches c. Prescriptive Easements i. 315-322 1. Community Feed Store, Inc. v. Northeastern Culvert Corp. 6. Private Ordering of Property Rights: Easements & Covenants (Servitudes) a. Servitudes i. 513-515 1. *No Cases*- just explanations b. Express Easements; Running with the Land; Scope i. 515-536 1. Note: California Statute of Frauds/New York Statute of Frauds 2. Green v. Lupo 3. Cox v. Glenbrook Co. 4. Henley v. Continental Cablevision of St. Louis County, Inc. a. Note: Divisibility of appurtenant easements pg. 533 c. Implied Easements: Estoppel; Prior Use i. 536-554 1. Lobato v. Taylor a. Note: Communal Land Grants b. Note: Easements by estoppel 2. (Easements implied by prior use) Granite Properties Limited Partnership v. Manns d. Implied Easements (cont.): Necessity i. 554-559 1. Finn v. Williams a. Note: Easement by necessity e. Covenants i. 559-579

1. (Traditional Test) Neponsit Property Owners Association v. Emigrant Industrial Savings Bank a. Note: Privity of estate- horizontal v. vertical b. Note: Substantive requirements- the “touch and concern test” f. Residential Subdivisions i. 579-594 1. Evans v. Pollock g. Regulation of Covenants i. 594-601 1. Just Info h. Substantive Limitations i. 601-616 1. Davidson Brothers, Inc. v. D. Katz & Sons, Inc. 2. Nahrstedt v. Lakeside Village Condominium Association i. Racially Restrictive Covenants i. 626-636 1. (Constitutional Limitations) Shelley v. Kraemer j. Fair Housing Act i. 636-638 1. Described/explained k. Restraints on Alienation i. 638-661 1. Northwest Real Estate Co. v. Serio 2. Woodside Village Condominium Association, Inc. v. Jahren 3. El Di, Inc. v. Town of Bethany Beach 4. Blakely v. Gorin l. Fair Housing Law i. 1017-1024 1. The Fair Housing Act m. Intentional Discrimination or Disparate Impact i. 1032-1041 1. (Basis of Race) Asbury v. Brougham

7. Division of Property Rights by Time: Present Estates & Future Interests a. The System of Estates i. 739-755 1. Just Info b. Future Interests and the Rule Against Perpetuities i. 783-796 1. Just Info c. Concurrent Ownership i. 665-684 1. Info 2. Carr v. Deking 3. Tenhet v. Boswell 8. Leaseholds a. Tenancy i. 813-817 1. Just Info b. Conflicts about Occupancy i. 829-851 1. Uniform Residential Landlord and Tenant Act 2. Kendall v. Ernest Pestana, Inc. 3. Slavin v. Rent Control Board of Brookline c. Conflicts about Rent i. 851-864 1. Sommer v. Kridel a. Note: Duty to mitigate damages d. Condition of the Property: Covenant of Quiet Enjoyment and Constructive Eviction i. 864-873 1. Minkaj Co. v. Randolph 2. 3000 B.C. v. Bowman Properties Ltd. a. Note: Express and implied in the landlord-tenant relationship e. Condition of the Property: Implied Warranty of Habitability

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873-891 1. Javins v. First National Realty Corp. 2. Hillview Associates v Bloomquist f. Minimum Standards i. 906-908 1. Just Info 9. Property, Public Ordering, & The Constitution a. Zoning i. 424-446 1. Village of Euclid v Ambler Realty Co. 2. Town of Belleville v. Parrillo’s, Inc. 3. Stone v. City of Wilton a. Note: Cumberland Farms v. Town of Groton (Gas station then residential) b. Exclusionary Zoning i. 463-475 1. Southern Burlington County NAACP v. Township of Mount Laurel c. Eminent Domain i. 1149-1169 1. Kelo v. City of New London d. Regulatory Takings i. 1109-113; 1183-1191 1. Miller v. Schoene 2. Pennsylvania Coal Co. v. Mahon...