Includes index.

The law of property -- Personal property and possession -- The law of finders and prior possessors -- Bailments -- Good-faith or bona fide purchasers -- Gifts -- Accession, confusion, and fixtures -- Adverse possession -- Common law estates and present interests -- Future interests -- Special rules of construction -- The rule against perpetuities -- Concurrent ownership -- Marital property -- The landlord and tenant relationship -- Transfers of the lease -- Waste, duty to repair, destruction of leased premises, and security deposits -- Termination and abandonment of the lease -- Achieving habitable premises -- Premises liability of landlords -- The holdover tenant and concluding comments -- The sales contract -- Executory period issues -- Real estate closings -- Post-closing title assurances -- The recording systems -- Private nuisance -- Creation of easements -- Assignability, scope, and termination of easements -- Real covenants and equitable servitudes : running with the land -- Real covenants and equitable servitudes : common schemes and termination -- Constitutional and statutory constraints on zoning -- Variances, special exceptions, and zoning amendments -- Selected challenges to zoning ordinances -- Takings.