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Articles 151 - 160 of 160
Full-Text Articles in Property Law and Real Estate
Dependent Covenants In Commercial Leases: Hindquarter Corp. V. Property Development Corp., Tracy R. Antley Faust
Dependent Covenants In Commercial Leases: Hindquarter Corp. V. Property Development Corp., Tracy R. Antley Faust
Seattle University Law Review
This Note demonstrates that the Washington Supreme Court correctly applied contract principles to the Hindquarter lease dispute. The Note first reviews the historical development of dependent covenants in both residential and commercial contexts. After setting out this important background information, the Note examines Hindquarter and the three factors that influenced the Washington Supreme Court in following the dependent covenants trend: (1) material inducements to execute the lease; (2) the intent of the parties; and (3) equity and policy considerations. The Note concludes that, even though the landlord prevailed in Hindquarter, commercial tenants stand to gain most from the supreme …
Real Estate Contracts And The Doctrine Of Equitable Conversion In Washington: Dispelling The Ashford Cloud, Linda S. Hume
Real Estate Contracts And The Doctrine Of Equitable Conversion In Washington: Dispelling The Ashford Cloud, Linda S. Hume
Seattle University Law Review
The principal thesis of this Article is that property and contract questions should not be solved independently and are most usefully approached in a distinct order. Because the installment contract divides the incidents of property ownership usually associated with legal title between the parties to the contract, it should be treated differently than the earnest money contract in which the incidents of ownership are not divided. In addition, it is important to first answer some remedial questions before proceeding to make decisions about the property interest of each party to the contract. To support this thesis, this Article explains in …
Cardozo Revisited: Liability To Third Parties; A Real Property Perspective, Robert Kratovil
Cardozo Revisited: Liability To Third Parties; A Real Property Perspective, Robert Kratovil
Seattle University Law Review
One of the most outstanding jurists of our time, Justice Benjamin Cardozo, articulated a principle spanning the "seamless web" of the law which, unfortunately, has been obscured by the attempts of courts, casebook writers, and law professors to pigeonhole the principle into familiar categories. Justice Cardozo established the principle that a person who undertakes a task is liable for injury to remote third parties, regardless of lack of privity, which arises from the person's negligent performance of the task. Cardozo also enunciated an exception to this rule which developed into a widely accepted opposing rule. This Article first traces the …
Boundary Law: The Rule Of Monument Control In Washington, Jerry Broadus
Boundary Law: The Rule Of Monument Control In Washington, Jerry Broadus
Seattle University Law Review
The rule of monument control has developed as a necessary corollary to the Statute of Frauds as applied to land conveyances. Confusion in the application of the two rules can be avoided by examining their underlying equitable policies. A consideration of these policies is necessary for a reasoned approach to judging the admissibility and weight of evidence needed to prove a boundary monument. San Juan County v. Ayer illustrates the confusion which can result when a court attempts to apply these rules in a technical manner divorced from their historical background. Many boundary disputes could properly be resolved by using …
Forfeiture Clauses In Land Installment Contracts: Time For Equitable Foreclosure, Donna R. Roper
Forfeiture Clauses In Land Installment Contracts: Time For Equitable Foreclosure, Donna R. Roper
Seattle University Law Review
This Comment will trace the history of the Washington courts' decision to deny foreclosure by judicial sale in land installment contracts with forfeiture clauses and will demonstrate the viability and preferability of foreclosure by judicial sale as an equitable remedy for a defaulting buyer. The Comment will also describe how other states, either legislatively or judicially, have resolved the inequity of forfeitures.
Alderwood Associatesv. Washington Environmental Council: State Action And The Washington State Constitution, Suzanne Lee Elliott, Jane Elizabeth Pearson
Alderwood Associatesv. Washington Environmental Council: State Action And The Washington State Constitution, Suzanne Lee Elliott, Jane Elizabeth Pearson
Seattle University Law Review
In Alderwood Associates v. Washington Environmental Council, the Washington Supreme Court reversed a temporary restraining order forbidding the defendant's solicitation or demonstration on plaintiff's privately owned shopping mall. Although there was no majority opinion because the court split four-one-four, the result of the several opinions is that the Washington constitution now bars private as well as state action that interferes with the gathering of initiative signatures on certain private property. However, four justices also concluded that the free speech sections of the Washington constitution restricts private as well as state action. The Alderwood result is desirable, but could have …
In Re Puget Sound Power And Light Company: Eminent Domain By Corporations Reevaluated, Julie Anderson
In Re Puget Sound Power And Light Company: Eminent Domain By Corporations Reevaluated, Julie Anderson
Seattle University Law Review
This note examines In re Puget Sound Power and Light Company and the court’s holding that due process requires a private condemnor to prove public use and necessity by a preponderance of the evidence. The note recognizes that the court correctly shifted the burden of proof to the condemnor, but argues that the court could have grounded its decision in the Washington procedural statute governing corporate condemnation and avoided the constitutional question. The note advocates for courts interpreting the statute for corporations to require strict judicial supervision of the eminent domain actions of private entities.
Retaliatory Eviction And Periodic Tenants In Washington, Phillip Raymond
Retaliatory Eviction And Periodic Tenants In Washington, Phillip Raymond
Seattle University Law Review
This comment evaluates the availability of the retaliatory eviction defense to periodic tenants in Washington State in light of a recent appellate court decision, Stephanus v. Anderson, denying periodic tenants the defense where the statutorily required twenty day termination notice is provided. An analysis of the basic policies underlying the Act, to ensure safe, sanitary housing conditions and to prohibit landlords' retaliatory actions against tenants exercising their rights to attain decent housing conditions, indicates periodic tenants be allowed to assert the retaliatory eviction defense. Additionally, the language of the retaliatory action provision of the statute supports an interpretation granting …
Enforceability Of Land Use Servitudes Benefiting Local Government In Washington, Stephen Phillabaum
Enforceability Of Land Use Servitudes Benefiting Local Government In Washington, Stephen Phillabaum
Seattle University Law Review
Washington courts are free to enforce publicland use servitudes. Of the elements required for a servitude to run with the land, form, notice, and touch and concern on the burden side do not bar running. Only the touch and concern element applied on the benefit side is a potential bar. Washington conceivably could allow public land use servitudes to run with the land by following the minority position of not requiring touch and concern on the benefit side. A less stringent theory, however, is available to enforce public land use servitudes. Washington has not adopted a rule that public servitudes …
Equitable Conversion In Washington: The Doctrine That Dares Not Speak Its Name, George R. Nock, John A. Strait, John W. Weaver
Equitable Conversion In Washington: The Doctrine That Dares Not Speak Its Name, George R. Nock, John A. Strait, John W. Weaver
Seattle University Law Review
Since the 1925 decision of Ashford v. Reese, Washington has had the distinction of being the only American jurisdiction totally, albeit implicitly, to reject the doctrine of equitable conversion. Ashford was overruled in 1977, in a remarkable opinion which simultaneously, and explicitly, rejected the doctrine of equitable conversion, thus maintaining Washington's unique status with respect to that doctrine. But the opinion failed to provide a substitute for either the rule of Ashford or the contrary doctrine of equitable conversion, both of which it emphatically abjured. The result is an unbroken line of Washington cases consistent with only one rule of …