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| Acknowledgments | |
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| A Very Short Introduction | |
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| Finders of Personal Property | |
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| The General Rule | |
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| The Public/Private Place Distinction | |
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| Mislaid Property | |
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| Treasure Trove | |
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| The Closer: Other Factors | |
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| Gifts of Personal Property | |
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| The Basic Elements | |
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| Physical Delivery | |
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| Constructive and Symbolic Deliveries | |
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| Acceptance | |
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| Gift Causa Mortis | |
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| The Closer: Gifts of Future Interests | |
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| Intellectual Property | |
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| Patents | |
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| Copyrights | |
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| Trademarks | |
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| Trade Secrets | |
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| Misappropriation | |
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| Right of Publicity | |
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| The Closer: Distinguishing among the IP Categories | |
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| Adverse Possession | |
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| The Basic Concept: Wrongful Possession | |
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| Standard Elements and Policies | |
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| Adverse Possession and Record Title | |
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| Color of Title and Constructive Adverse Possession | |
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| Open and Notorious Possession | |
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| Hostile and Adverse Possession | |
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| Exclusive Possession | |
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| Continuous Possession and Tacking | |
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| Disability Provisions | |
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| Adverse Possession of Personal Property | |
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| The Closer: State of Mind | |
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| Fee Simple Estates | |
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| Some Basic Principles | |
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| Creation of Fee Simple at Common Law: Words of Inheritance | |
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| Creation under Modern Statutes: Presumption of Fee Simple | |
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| Rebutting the Presumption of Fee Simple | |
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| The Closer: Dying without Heirs | |
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| Defeasible Estates | |
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| The Nature of Defeasible Estates | |
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| What Language Makes an Estate Defeasible? | |
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| The Fee Simple Determinable | |
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| The Fee Simple Subject to Condition Subsequent | |
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| The Fee Simple Subject to Executory Limitation | |
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| The Closer: Distinguishing Cutting Short an Estate and the Natural Expiration of an Estate | |
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| Life Estates | |
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| The Nature of the Life Estate | |
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| Legal and Equitable Life Estates | |
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| The Doctrine of Waste | |
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| The Closer: Continuing and Ongoing Activity | |
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| Reversions and Remainders | |
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| Distinguishing Reversions and Remainders | |
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| Types of Remainders | |
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| Distinction between the Contingent Remainder and the Vested Remainder Subject to Complete Divestment | |
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| Alternative Contingent Remainders | |
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| The Closer: Stripping the Share of a Deceased Grantee | |
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| Executory Interests | |
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| The History of Executory Interests | |
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| Active Trusts | |
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| Distinction between Springing and Shifting Executory Interests | |
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| The Divesting Effect of Executory Interests | |
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| The Closer: Taking Away a Trust Beneficiary's Interest | |
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| Rule Against Perpetuities | |
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| Background to the Rule | |
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| Future Interests That Are Subject to the Rule | |
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| The Basic Concept: An Event That May Take Place Far in the Future | |
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| The Concept of Measuring Lives | |
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| Class Gifts: The Problem of the Afterborn Person | |
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| Statutory and Judicial Reforms | |
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| The Closer: Who Graduates from High School? | |
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| Contenants | |
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| Right to Shared Possession | |
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| Ouster | |
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| Tenancy in Common | |
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| Joint Tenancy | |
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| The Closer: Tracing Cotenancy Interests through the Generations | |
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| Marital Property | |
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| Tenancy by the Entirety | |
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| Death | |
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| Divorce | |
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| Community Property | |
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| The Closer: Treatment of Real Property Held by Both Spouses at Divorce | |
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| Leasehold Estates | |
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| Nature of Leasehold Estates | |
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| Tenancy for Years | |
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| Periodic Tenancy | |
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| Tenancy at Will | |
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| Tenancy at Sufferance | |
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| The Closer: Keeping Straight the Leasehold Estates | |
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| Quiet Enjoyment and Condition of Leased Premises | |
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| Creation of Covenant of Quiet Enjoyment | |
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| Identity of Wrongdoer | |
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| Actual Eviction | |
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| Constructive Eviction | |
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| Condition of Premises: Caveat Emptor | |
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| Implied Warranty of Habitability | |
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| The Closer: Review of the Tenant's Options | |
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| Landlord's Remedies | |
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| Tenant's Default | |
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| Tenant's Abandonment | |
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| Collection of Rent | |
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| Mitigation of Damages | |
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| Eviction Procedures | |
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| The Closer: Destruction of Improvements by Casualty | |
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| Subleases and Assignments | |
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| Nature of Sublease | |
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| Nature of Assignment | |
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| Distinction between Sublease and Assignment | |
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| Lease Restrictions | |
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| The Closer: Rent Liability after Multiple Assignments | |
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| Easements | |
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| Appurtenant Easements and Easements in Gross | |
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| Affirmative Easements, Negative Easements, and Profits | |
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| Transfers of Easements | |
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| Granting an Easement to a Third Party | |
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| The Scope of Easements | |
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| Easements Implied from Prior Use | |
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| Easements by Necessity | |
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| Prescriptive Easements | |
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| Duration of Easements | |
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| The Closer: Planning for Access When Subdividing a Parcel | |
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| Covenants | |
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| Traditional Real Covenant | |
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| Horizontal Privity of Estate | |
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| Rise of the Equitable Servitude | |
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| Intent that Covenant Runs | |
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| Touch and Concern Requirement | |
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| Vertical Privity of Estate | |
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| Interpretation of Covenants | |
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| Change of Circumstances and Abandonment | |
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| The Closer: Reciprocal Negative Easement | |
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| Nuisance | |
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| The Classic Perspective: Substantial Harm | |
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| Modern Balancing of Utilities | |
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| Nuisance Immunity | |
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| Nuisance Per Se | |
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| The "Coming to the Nuisance" Defense | |
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| The Closer: Priority in Time | |
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| Zoning | |
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| The Constitutionality of Zoning | |
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| The Separation of Land Uses | |
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| Zoning Ordinance Amendments | |
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| Nonconforming Uses | |
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| Variances | |
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| Special Exceptions and Special Permits | |
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| Performance Zoning | |
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| The Closer: A New, Tough Tree Ordinance | |
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| Takings | |
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| The Public Use Requirement | |
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| Just Compensation | |
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| Regulatory Takings | |
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| Physical Invasions | |
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| The Closer: Transferable Development Rights | |
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| Closing Closers: Some Practice Questions | |
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| Index | |