| Property |  | Authors: James E. Krier, Michael H. Schill, Gregory S. Alexander
Creator: Jesse Dukeminier
Publisher: Aspen Publishers, Inc.
Category: Book
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Rating:  27 reviews
Sales Rank: 35,385
Media: Hardcover
Edition: 6
Pages: 1094
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Dimensions (in): 10.1 x 7.1 x 1.8
ISBN: 0735557926
Dewey Decimal Number: 346.7304
EAN: 9780735557925
ASIN: 0735557926
Publication Date: March 30, 2006
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This highly respected and widely used casebook -- long recognized by both students and instructors as one of the best available for any course -- continues to offer a dynamic and distinctive introduction to the law of property. Carefully preserving the excellent foundation created by original authors the late Jesse Dukeminier and James Krier, PROPERTY, Sixth Edition, incorporates a wealth of new material. What makes PROPERTY such an ideal casebook? A unique blend of wit, erudition, insight, and playfulness engaging structure that encompasses cases, text, questions, problems, visual illustrations, and examples modular organization makes the book highly adaptable to a range of syllabi and equally well suited for use in property courses with different emphases and credit hours distinctive sense of humor and human-interest perspective comprehensive coverage of property topics, including in-depth treatment of estates and future interests, servitudes, and land-use controls cases are enhanced and connected to broader legal principles by well-written notes, questions, and problems the authors employ an accessible 'economic lens' as a tool for thinking critically about property -- with the caveat that 'the economics in the book can be managed easily... even by the totally uninitiated; it can also be ignored or even scorned.'
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 An Oasis in the Casebook Desert February 16, 2005
Disgruntled 1L (Florida)
7 out of 8 found this review helpful
Easily the best casebook I have had yet. The cases are interesting and easy to follow. The authors have made a shocking break with casebook tradition and have included notes which clarify and enlighten, rather than bewilder and confuse. Occasional pictures relating to cases are also included. Always a joyful surprise when faced with the evening's herculean reading assignment to get a whole page gratis! Admittedly, the professor doesn't come with the book, but this book definitely takes you half the way towards loving property.
Don't skip the footnotes! August 8, 2003
Matt Cameron (Newark, NJ United States)
2 out of 3 found this review helpful
This casebook is a rarity in that its editors actually seem to enjoy books in and of themselves. Recognizing that their readers are probably first-year students in need of more than relevant cases and blackletter law (although more than enough of both are provided), they have helpfully added factual background, full explanations of historical trends, and even liberal amounts of actual diagrams and photos to aid the reader in trying to understand things like, say, what Grand Central Station might have looked like with an 80-story office tower on it or what kind of a person might spend hundreds of thousands of dollars in legal fees to be able to keep a cat in her condo. It's not all fun, of course, but even brain-paining topics like future estates are deftly handled in a few pithy pages without too much unnecessary commentary. I would say that this is a worthy standard for any legal casebook to meet, but I'm not sure about that. If every law school text were designed with the kind of thought and care that this one was, our country's law schools might be even more overcrowded than they already are.
Great deal on 'Property' August 22, 2009
SaltAMonte (Provo, UT)
I got a book in great condition for 1/4 the price at my school's bookstore! I would definitely buy from this seller again.
Book in great shape - not a mark January 23, 2010
Emerich F. Gutter
The book was delivered to me on time, without a single mark in it - just like new. Thanks!
As exciting as a property book can get February 7, 2010
sperrypt (Ohio)
This being my second book on property law (the first being Fundamentals of Modern Property Law), I have to say that it is decent look into the structure of the legal systems property laws. Property provides decent cases to allow for an understanding of the basic concepts and relies on the Restatement Third to show where the law is headed. Outside of that that, it also deals with a commentary like writing to also provide some common law historical footprints to give some evolution or incite to why courts rule the way they do.
When it is all said and done though, you have to realize that this is from a students perspective, so the book is ok compared to what I had before. There are issues though where you have cases that only provide a minorities perspective and have to rely on the instructor or knowledge to what the majorities perspective is (or statute). It is much clearer than the other book I have used and as a bonus to students, it provides diagrams and pictures on some more complicated cases to help create a visualization (plus who doesn't like pictures)
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