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Property Overview

Property: Summaries and Explanations

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Wolters Kluwer Study Aid Library: Property (Harvard Law login)
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Acing Property by Colleen Medill
Call Number: Law School KF560 .M43 2012
ISBN: 9780314280954
Publication Date: 2012
Property by Joseph William Singer; Nestor M. Davidson
Call Number: KF570.Z9 S56 2022
ISBN: 9781543839258
Publication Date: 2022
Understanding Property Law by John G. Sprankling
Call Number: Law School KF561 .S67 2012
ISBN: 9781522105572
Publication Date: 2017
Moynihan's Introduction to the Law of Real Property by Sheldon Kurtz
Call Number: Law School KF570 .M6 2011
ISBN: 9781636591865
Publication Date: 2022
Property by D. Barlow Burke; Joseph A. Snoe
Call Number: Law School Reserve KF560 .B87 2019
ISBN: 9781454891536
Publication Date: 2019
Real Property in a Nutshell, 6th edition by Roger H. Bernhardt
Call Number: Law School KF579 .B47x 2010
ISBN: 0314261877
Publication Date: 2010
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Property in Depth

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American Law of Property by A. James Casner
Call Number: KF561 .A43x 1952
ISBN: 0316130907
Publication Date: 1952-01-01
American Law of Real Property by Richard R. Powell
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Call Number: Law School KF570 .P57
Publication Date: 1949-
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Thompson on Real Property by A. David Thomas (Editor)
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Call Number: Law School KF570 .T46x 1998
ISBN: 032700147X
Publication Date: 1998-08-01
Also available on Lexis Advance. Browse sources for Thompson on Real Property.
The Law of Real Property by Herbert Thorndike Tiffany
Call Number: Law School KF570 .T54 1939
Publication Date: 1939-
Also available via Westlaw
Restatement of the law second, property 2d, landlord and tenant by St. Paul, Minn. : American Law Institute Publishers,
Call Number: KF590 .A84 1977
Publication Date: 1979-
Available in print and on Westlaw, Lexis and Hein Online
Restatement of the Law Third, Property--Mortgages by American Law Institute Staff
Call Number: Law School KF695 .R49 1997
ISBN: 0314226265
Publication Date: 1997-09-01
Also available via Westlaw, Lexis and Hein Online
Restatement of the Law of Property, 3d., Wills and Donative Transfers by American Law Institute
Call Number: Law School KF613 .R479x 1999
ISBN: 0314239375
Publication Date: 1999-
Also available via Lexis, Westlaw and Hein Online
The Law of Real Property, 3d edition by Herbert Albert Tiffany
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Call Number: Law School KF570 .T54 1939
Publication Date: 1939-
Also available on WestlawNext as Tiffany on Real Property. Click on the Westlaw icon for access.

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