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Property, E. F. Roberts Jan 1979

Property, E. F. Roberts

Cornell Law Faculty Publications

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Property, E. F. Roberts Jan 1978

Property, E. F. Roberts

Cornell Law Faculty Publications

Blackstone warned us that the law of real property was “a fine artificial system, full of unseen connexions and nice dependencies; and he that breaks one link of the chain endangers dissolution of the whole.” Ours is an age during which entropy appears to have beset the entire society. Reflecting as it does the socioeconomic realities of the society, the system of real property law has not escaped the general drift, and it evidences marked symptoms of dissolution.


Property, E. F. Roberts Jan 1977

Property, E. F. Roberts

Cornell Law Faculty Publications

A survey can either restate the obvious or attempt to add a critical dimension to the law’s uncertain progress. The obvious can be gleaned merely by scanning the orange-covered paperback indices which go with the official advance sheets and in which cases are condensed in the best headnote hunter’s style. This exercise presupposes a reader possessed of an interest in something more than the obvious, and one who enjoys a critique of a few key cases, precisely for the challenge of making an independent judgment of whether New York property law has progressed during the past Survey year.


Property, E. F. Roberts Jan 1976

Property, E. F. Roberts

Cornell Law Faculty Publications

A Survey can be a wine list inventorying the entire stock in the house or a selective list of vintages worth spending some time to savour. The reader will be able in a thrice to make his or her own judgment about the policy of this house.


A Eulogy For The Old Property, E. F. Roberts Jan 1968

A Eulogy For The Old Property, E. F. Roberts

Cornell Law Faculty Publications

No abstract provided.