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Freedom, Coercion, And The Law Of Servitudes, Gregory S. Alexander
Freedom, Coercion, And The Law Of Servitudes, Gregory S. Alexander
Cornell Law Faculty Publications
What do we want from a restatement of servitude law? Doctrinal simplification presents one obvious objective. Property teachers and their students commonly observe that the law of servitudes is a mess. However, doctrinal simplification surely does not present the only objective of the restatement. Developing a unified body of servitude doctrine, by itself, merely creates a sense of aesthetic coherence. Presumably the project aims at achieving more than just that. Law reformers generally seek to enhance the legal system's substantive coherence. At this level--developing a set of substantively coherent doctrinal practices--I am skeptical about the servitude restatement project.
A restatement …