Land Use Law Commons^™

This casebook offers a concise, user-friendly presentation of land use law which incorporates a focus on critical thinking and practice throughout. The casebook devotes an entire chapter to complex and realistic scenarios that provide students an opportunity to bring to bear what they have learned throughout the semester to solve challenging legal and strategic problems. New materials in the second edition ensure that students will become familiar with the latest trends in land use law. Attached is the table of contents.

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 determinate.

I contend that, in order to satisfy the determinacy norm for deed interpretation,

courts must (and …