Designed as an introductory coursebook for key areas of law, the Foundation Press University Textbook Series offers law students comprehensive scholarship of leading experts to deepen their knowledge and aid them in law school and throughout their legal careers. Bergin and Haskell's Preface to Estates in Land and Future Interests, 2d defines estates and future interests and traces their historical development in a highly readable fashion. Topics covered include conditions of survivorship, class gifts, powers of appointment, and the rule against perpetuities.
New to the Seventh Edition: Endnotes with case support for most of the law in the text. Correction of ambivalencies and errors in the sixth edition.
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The carefully crafted problems in this popular workbook have proven their effectiveness in helping students learn the rules and classifications in this intricate area of the law. The book remains...
This workbook provides a basic, systematized account of the rules and classifications of estate law.
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See American Bar Association, American Bar Association Guide to Wills and Estates (3d ed. 2009). ... The constitutional parameters of property law are discussed in J. Ely, The Guardian of Every Other Right (3d ed. 2007).
1991); J. Cribbet & C. Johnson, Principles of the Law of Property (3d ed. 1989); and R. Cunningham, W. Stoebuck & D. Whitman, ... See American Bar Association, American Bar Association Guide to Wills and Estates (3d ed. 2009).
Fifteen years later, in Thomas Sims' Case, 61 Mass. 285 (1851), Chief Justice Shaw, to the dismay of many Massachusetts abolitionists, ruled that under the laws of the United States, Sims, an escaped slave, had to be returned to his ...
This comprehensive guide provides an overview of the rules and principles of estates and future interests, including concurrent estates, marital estates (including the modern elective share), and powers of appointment....