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The Law Of Easements And Licenses In Land: Book Review, R. H. Helmholz Nov 1988

The Law Of Easements And Licenses In Land: Book Review, R. H. Helmholz

Vanderbilt Law Review

A distinguished commentator, Professor A.W.B. Simpson, recently observed that the legal treatise seems to be going the way of the dinosaur and the dodo bird.' To him, and indeed to other thoughtful ob-servers, the treatise's characteristic form appears to have outlived its natural span, or at least lost its reason for existence among serious academic writers. The treatise's focus on a particular and specialized area of the law and its inevitable concentration on the doctrinal analysis of appellate cases now appear quite out of date to these observers, something perhaps worthwhile in a simpler and more complacent era, but which …


An Update On The Legal Chameleon: Florida's Homestead Exemption And Restrictions, Donna Litman Jan 1988

An Update On The Legal Chameleon: Florida's Homestead Exemption And Restrictions, Donna Litman

Faculty Scholarship

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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. …


Toward An Economic Understanding Of Touch And Concern, Jeffrey E. Stake Jan 1988

Toward An Economic Understanding Of Touch And Concern, Jeffrey E. Stake

Articles by Maurer Faculty

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