Topic
Easement
193 published works
PropertyProf Blog
Professors’ Corner: Cemetery Law and the Real Estate Lawyer
The Real Property, Trust and Estate Law Section is sometimes referred to as consisting of two parts—dirt (real property law) and death (trust and estate law). The September Professors' Corner…
PropertyProf Blog
Babie on Recent Developments in Australian Real Property Law
Paul Babie (Adelaide) has posted The Durability of Title: An Appraisal of Recent Developments in Australian Real Property Law on SSRN. Here's the abstract:This article considers three recent Australian judicial developments…
PropertyProf Blog
Case of the Week
Joe Singer's blog points us toward an easement case from Vermont:The Vermont Supreme Court has adopted the rule promoted by the Restatement (Third) of Property (Servitudes), §4.8(3), allowing the owner…
Land Use Law Blog
The Doctrine of Irrevocable Licenses is Alive and Flourishing – So Maybe You Can Maintain Your Plants on Your Neighbor’s Property
By Glen C. Hansen Richardson v. Franc (January 27, 2015, A137815) ___ Cal.App.4th ___. In Richardson v. Franc, the Court of Appeal for the First Appellate District affirmed a trial…
inversecondemnation.com
Washington: State Trust Land Can Be Condemned By County Utility
Here's one with a somewhat unusual twist: the condemnee objecting to the taking by a public utility district was the state.In Public Utility Dist. No. 1 of Okanogan Cnty. v.…
PropertyProf Blog
ALI Announces New Restatement of Property
The American Law Institute has announced it will begin work on the Restatement of the Law Fourth, Property in 2015. From the website: "The new Property Restatement aims to make…
Energy & the Law
Easements: Roads Traveled, Less Traveled, and Not Traveled
Why would anyone buy property without access to a public road? Because it seemed like a good idea at the time, I guess. And often it is, until things change, “things”…
Land Use Law Blog
REMINDER – NEW CLASS – Update on Easement Law and Boundary Disputes
Join Glen C. Hansen of Abbott & Kindermann, LLP, in a new class which discusses recent developments in resolving easement and boundary disputes in California. This is an advanced class…
Land Use Law Blog
NEW CLASS – Update on Easement Law and Boundary Disputes
Join Glen C. Hansen of Abbott & Kindermann, LLP, in a new class which discusses recent developments in resolving easement and boundary disputes in California. This is an advanced class…
inversecondemnation.com
New Cert Petition: In Rails-To-Trails Case, Fed Circuit Should Have Punted State Law Contracts Question To State Court
Here's a new cert petition, filed yesterday, that poses two interesting issues, the first of federalism, the other of exactions.This is a rails-to-trails case in which the federal government asserts that…