PROPERTY LAW 101
Check out the videos!Property Law 101 is intended to help you learn a little more about property law! These videos are meant to be a quick overview or refresher – not exhaustive treatments of the subject, and certainly not legal advice.
The series covers four fundamental questions: (1) What is property? (2) How do we acquire property? (3) What can we do with property? (4) How are property interests held? Click on the titles to get the video!
I. THE NATURE OF PROPERTY: WHAT IS PROPERTY?
Episode 2: The Blackstonian Bundle – & its Myth
Episode 3: How Much Do You Own? Hinman v. Pacific Air Transport
Episode 4: The Right to Destroy: Eyerman v Mercantile Trust Co.
Episode 5: People as Property: The Antelope & The Amistad Case
II. ACQUIRING PROPERTY: HOW DO WE ACQUIRE PROPERTY?
Episode 7: The Root of Title: Discovery, First Possession, Creation, & Labor
Episode 8: The Concept of Res Nullius
Episode 9: “Discovery”: Johnson v. M’Intosh
Episode 10: First Possession: Pierson v. Post
Episode 11: First Possession: Popov v. Hayashi
Episode 12: First Possession: Watercourses: Prior Appropriation v. Riparian Rights
Episode 13: First Possession: The Rule of Capture
Episode 14: The Commons – and its Tragedy
Episode 15: Creation & Intangible Property
Episode 16: Lost, Mislaid, or Abandoned?
Episode 17: Relativity of Title: Armory v. Delamirie, McAvoy v. Medina
Episode 18: The Elements of Adverse Possession
Episode 19: The Rationales for Adverse Possession
Episode 20: Limits on Adverse Possession
Episode 21: Tacking in Adverse Possession
Episode 22: The Elements of Prescriptive Easements
III. USING PROPERTY: WHAT CAN WE DO WITH PROPERTY?
Episode 23: The Elements of Trespass
Episode 24: The Right to Exclude: Jacque v. Steenberg Homes
Episode 25: The Public Trust Doctrine
Episode 26: Who Has Rights to the Beach?
Episode 28: The Right to Exclude: State v. Shack
Episode 29: The Right to Public Accommodations
Episode 31: The Third Restatement of Property
Episode 32: Types of Easements
Episode 33: Creating Easements
Episode 34: Terminating Easements
Episode 35: Conservation and Preservation Restrictions
Episode 36: The Elements of a Covenant
Episode 37: Modifying or Terminating Covenants
Episode 38: Restraints on Alienation
Episode 39: The No-Pet Rule: Nahrstedt v. Lakeside Village
Episode 41: Covenants: Shelley v. Kraemer
Episode 42: The Elements of Nuisance
Episode 43: Public and Private Nuisances
Episode 44: Nuisance versus Trespass
Episode 45: Defenses to a Nuisance Claim
Episode 46: Are People Nuisances? The Fair Housing Act
Episode 47: The Transition from Nuisance to Zoning
Episode 48: Zoning: What It Is, How It Works
Episode 49: Zoning: City of Euclid v. Ambler Realty
Episode 50: Flexibility in Zoning
Episode 52: Zoning: Nonconforming Uses
Episode 53: The Pros and Cons of Zoning
Episode 54: Exclusionary Zoning
Episode 55: Zoning: Form-Based Codes
Episode 56: Zoning for Families
IV. HOLDING INTERESTS IN PROPERTY: HOW IS PROPERTY HELD?
Episode 58: The Elements of Deeds
Episode 63: The Freehold Estates (Including Fee Simple)
Episode 66: The Rule Against Perpetuities
Episode 70: Tenancy by the Entirety
Episode 71: Marital Property: Community & Separate Property
Episode 72: Marital Property: O’Brien v. O’Brien
Episode 73: Leases: What They Are, How They Work
Episode 74: Comparing Leasing and Owning
Episode 75: Leasing and Default Rules
Episode 76: Four Types of Leaseholds
Episode 77: Tenant Exit: Subleases & Assignments
Episode 78: Tenant Exit: Mitigating Damages: Sommer v. Kridel
Episode 79: The Covenant of Quiet Enjoyment & Constructive Evictions
Episode 80: The Implied Warranty of Habitability
Episode 81: The Takings Clause & Its Elements
Episode 82: Eminent Domain: Prelude to Kelo: Berman v. Parker & Hawaii Housing v. Midkiff
Episode 83: Eminent Domain: Kelo v. City of New London
Episode 84: Eminent Domain: Kelo’s Aftermath
Episode 86: Takings and Physical Occupations: Loretto v. Teleprompter Manhattan CATV Corp.
Episode 87: What are Regulatory Takings?
Episode 88: Regulatory Takings: Pennsylvania Coal Co. v. Mahon
Episode 89: Regulatory Takings: Penn Central v. NYC
Episode 90: Regulatory Takings: Categorical Takings
Episode 91: Regulatory Takings: Lucas v. S.C. Coastal Council
Episode 92: Regulatory Takings: The Denominator Search in Palazzolo, Tahoe-Sierra, and Murr