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Property Law and Real Estate

Journal

Cleveland State University

1988

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How To Do A Perpetuities Problem, John Makdisi Jan 1988

How To Do A Perpetuities Problem, John Makdisi

Cleveland State Law Review

The most difficult aspect of the rule against perpetuities is figuring out a sure-fire way to determine whether an interest created in a conveyance is valid or invalid. The meaning of the rule itself is not hard to fathom. Whenever the interest might vest too remotely it is invalid, and it becomes possible to vest remotely if there is a chance that it could vest more than twenty-one years after everyone alive at the time of the conveyance has died. Whether the interest violates the rule against perpetuities is determined at the moment the conveyance creating the interest becomes effective. …

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Ohio Landlord-Tenant Reform Revisited, Edward G. Kramer, Marilyn Tobocman, Kenneth J. Kowalski, James Buchanan Jan 1988

Ohio Landlord-Tenant Reform Revisited, Edward G. Kramer, Marilyn Tobocman, Kenneth J. Kowalski, James Buchanan

Cleveland State Law Review

The "gentle readers" may be surprised by the analogy suggested between the reform of landlord-tenant law and the experience of Alice and the Queen. However, the events surrounding the enactment of Amended Substitute Senate Bill 103 were as perplexing as those in Lewis Carroll's story. Those opposing real reform, principally the real estate industry, were successful in weakening the proposed legislation. Consequently, the primary goal of the sponsors of landlord-tenant legislation in Ohio was not met by the legislation finally enacted. As this Article will demonstrate, the interpretation of the Act by the courts of Ohio has proven true the …

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