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Real Property, Roger Bernhardt
Real Property, Roger Bernhardt
Cal Law Trends and Developments
"Real property" as a topic exists only in a law professor's mind. Practicing attorneys may specialize in representing title companies or developers or brokers or any of the other entrepreneurs who make their living in one way or another from real estate, but none of these lawyers would claim that his proper field of expertise is real estate per se. Consequently, any article on developments in the field of real property law really becomes a series of separate articles on developments in some real estate specialties, rather than a cohesive whole. I have tried, here, to cover the three specialties …
Real Property, Herbert I. Lazerow
Real Property, Herbert I. Lazerow
Cal Law Trends and Developments
During the year, the California courts made the acquisition of property, either by adverse possession or possession as a result of the owner's abandonment, more difficult. While the courts did not change the rules of law they insisted on their pristine application. This demonstrates an understandable tendency, in an urbanizing society, toward restricting the transfer of title by possession alone to non-owners.