Widely regarded as one of the best casebooks available for any law school course, Property, now in its Seventh Edition, combines a traditional doctrinal approach with wit, erudition, and an engaging human-interest perspective that make teaching and learning Property Law a great pleasure.

Admired for generations, his landmark casebook features:

• a dynamic yet traditional pedagogy that includes cases, text, questions, problems, visual illustrations, and vibrant examples
• a flexible, modular organization that allows the book to easily adapt to a range of syllabi and course credit hours
• comprehensive coverage that encompasses the full range of property topics , with in-depth treatments of estates and future interests, servitudes, and land-use controls
• cartoons and photographs that present humorous asides and visual commentary at appropriate intervals within the text
• an accessible and unobtrusive "economic lens" for critically thinking about property issues

Updated throughout, the Seventh Edition provides:

• major changes to the proposed new Restatement (Third) of Property--highlighted, to simplify the system of estates and future interests
• additional visual aids and problems in the estates and future interests chapters
• a fresh look at marital property law, including the recent gay marriage case from the Iowa Supreme Court
• simplified coverage of servitudes, particularly covenants and equitable servitudes
• new signposts in every chapter that link topics in the casebook to sources on the website
• recent developments in the law governing the landlord-tenant relationship in government-assisted housing
• a timely view of the mortgage crisis and changes in real estate financing
• streamlined coverage of zoning flexibility
• a new case and material on Religious Land Use and the Institutionalized Persons Act
• updates in land use regulation, environmental law, climate change, and "smart growth"
• icons added throughout the text to indicate which materials have online counterparts on the companion website,

An iconic book with a contemporary feel, Property, Seventh Edition, resonates with the late Jesse Dukeminier's original wit and wisdom. New co-authors Gregory Alexander and Michael Schill keep it fresh, sharp, and up to date with this thoughtful and thorough revision.

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Valerie Martin’s Property delivers an eerily mesmerizing inquiry into slavery’s venomous effects on the owner and the owned. The year is 1828, the setting a Louisiana sugar plantation where Manon Gaudet, pretty, bitterly intelligent, and monstrously self-absorbed, seethes under the dominion of her boorish husband. In particular his relationship with her slave Sarah, who is both his victim and his mistress.
Exploring the permutations of Manon’s own obsession with Sarah against the backdrop of an impending slave rebellion, Property unfolds with the speed and menace of heat lightning, casting a startling light from the past upon the assumptions we still make about the powerful and powerful.

The focused coverage of Examples & Explanations: Property, Third Edition, along with the proven Examples & Explanations format, which combines textual material with well-written examples, explanations, and questions that test the reader's understanding of the material covered, makes this text an invaluable means for helping students master the intricacies of property law. Among the features that have made this study aid a success:

• eminently clear and readable text
• six-part topical organization that matches the coverage of most first-year property courses and follows the organization of the best selling property casebook by Dukeminier, Krier, Alexander & Schill
• 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
• the authors address principal cases used in most leading casebooks
• skilled and experienced authorship by long-time teachers and scholars of property law

New to the Third Edition:

• updated coverage of takings to include recent Supreme Court cases Tahoe-Sierra Preservation Council Inc. v. Tahoe Regional Planning Agency, Kelo v. New London, and Lingle v. Chevron U.S.A.
• expanded introduction to trusts with clear and detailed descriptions of a trust, a grantor, a trustee, a life beneficiary, and a remainderman
• new substantive material added to coverage of:
  • the recording acts
  • the Third Restatement of Property concerning Servitudes (covenants and equitable servitudes)
  • Private Nuisance (Chapter 27) adjacent and subjacent support
• updated coverage of the Rule Against Perpetuities
• many examples and explanations have been revised for greater clarity and effectiveness
• language in the text has been simplified where needed for even greater accessibility

With its focused coverage, concise format, and problem-based format, Examples & Explanations: Property, Third Edition, continues to provide Property students with the help and confidence they need to master this difficult first-year course.