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This book teaches the rules, gives students an analytical methodology to approach the rules, and provides adequate opportunity for students to apply the rules to problems. Students read the material and attempt to work the problems prior to class. During class the professors teach the material, constantly emphasizing the methodology of analysis by using the problems and asking the students to work through the process of analysis. … More >>
Possessory Estates and Future Interests Primer
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This book is an absolute must for any first year law student. It provides clear and simple explanations of the several different kinds of possessory estates and their related future interests. It will also provide you with sets of practice problems(and explanations) to help sharpen your skills with such abstract concepts as vested and contingent remainders, rights of re-entry, possibilities or reverter, and the much celebrated(and bewildering) rule against perpetuities. These problem sets will not only keep you entertained and amused for hours, but they will also help prepare you for final exam in property. This book might also be fun for anybody depraved, and boring, enough to study this type of material for their own edification.
Rating: 4 / 5
At the time of this review, only one other reviewer had commented on the book and that review dates back to 2000. Therefore, I felt that a more recent comment on the book is necessary. The prior reviewer’s comments are still valid as of this writing. I was completely lost in the terminology and the archaic deciphering of the wording of possessory estates and future interests until I read this short book. Although by no means a comprehensive guide (it isn’t meant to be one anyhow), the author does an exemplary job of walking the student thru the wording and the meaning of these different estates. Personally, I found that at least half the battle was won when I started to learn to which estate a phrase was meant to apply. Just like any other field, if you can’t speak the language, you will be lost. Get this book and start to decipher the wording in your property law book.
Rating: 5 / 5