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Property, E. F. Roberts
Property, E. F. Roberts
Cornell Law Faculty Publications
In the past, property exemplified law as an ordered set of rules, each axiom fitting nicely into an almost immovable intellectual mosaic of immense size. This obsolete rule grid still serves a purpose. It has been pressed into service as a vehicle to test aspirants for admission to the bar, now that even the bar examiners in this Republic have succumbed to using multiple choice questions susceptible to machine scoring. The irony is that this bar examination law does not mirror the real law, the common-law model having been destroyed by the entropy that typifies this fragile society. Order has …
Property, E. F. Roberts
Property, E. F. Roberts
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
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
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
A Eulogy For The Old Property, E. F. Roberts
Cornell Law Faculty Publications
No abstract provided.
Title Insurance: State Regulation And The Public Perspective, E. F. Roberts
Title Insurance: State Regulation And The Public Perspective, E. F. Roberts
Cornell Law Faculty Publications
No abstract provided.