Research Guides: Property Basics: Property Overview

Property Overview

Property: Summaries and Explanations

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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 Sprankling
Call Number: Law School KF561 .S67 2023

ISBN: 1531021247

Publication Date: [2023]
Moynihan's Introduction to the Law of Real Property by Sheldon Kurtz
Call Number: Law School KF570 .M6 2011

ISBN: 9781636591865

Publication Date: 2022
Examples and Explanations for Property by Barlow Burke; Joseph Snoe
Call Number: Law School \KF560 .B87 2023

ISBN: 1543857612

Publication Date: 2023
Real Property in a Nutshell by Roger Bernhardt; Roger H. Bernhardt; Ann M. Burkhart
Call Number: Law School KF579 .B47 2016

ISBN: 1634599209

Publication Date: 2016

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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
Call Number: Law School KF570 .P57

Publication Date: 1949-

Also available via Lexis Advance.
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Thompson on Real Property by A. David Thomas (Editor)
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
Call Number: Law School KF570 .T54 1939

Publication Date: 1939-

Also available on WestlawNext as Tiffany on Real Property.

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