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Fixing A Broken Common Law -- Has The Property Law Of Easements And Covenants Been Reformed By A Restatement?, Ronald H. Rosenberg

Florida State University Law Review

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Deeds And The Determinancy Norm: Insights From Brandt And Other Cases On An Undesignated, Yet Ever-Present, Interpretive Method, Donald J. Kochan

Florida State University Law Review

The land one holds is generally only as good as the property rights contained in the deed. The rights contained in the deed are only as good as the ability to get those rights enforced. And, the enforcement is only valuable if it recognizes a determinate meaning in the deeds from the point of conveyance. This Article pens the term “determinacy norm” to explain a collection of rules for the interpretation of deed terms that aim to make the meaning of deed terms de-terminate. I contend that, in order to satisfy the determinacy norm for deed interpretation, courts must (and …

Privacy As Quasi-Property, Lauren Henry Scholz

Scholarly Publications

Courts and commentators struggle to apply privacy law in a way that conforms to the intuitions of the average person. It is often assumed that the reason for this discrepancy is the absence of an agreed upon conceptual definition of privacy. In fact, the lack of a description of the interest invaded in a privacy matter is the more substantial hurdle. This Article provides such a description of the privacy interest.

Privacy is quasi-property. Quasi-property is a relational entitlement to exclude. Unlike real property, there is no freestanding right to exclude from a quasi-property interest absent reference to a relationship …