Estates In Land And Future Interests: A Step-by-step Guide

This effective ancillary text provides students with a class-tested method for learning the complex terminology and concepts of estates and future interests. By skillfully using graphics, text boxes, and pedagogical techniques that are especially helpful for visual learners, ESTATES IN LAND AND FUTURE INTERESTS: A Step-by-Step Guide, Second Edition, demystifies this particularly confusing subset of first-year property.

The book achieves a high degree of clarity by:

• using one central graphic \- a flow chart that identifies the state of a title after a particular conveyance \- to link various estates to the future interests that follow them; the complete chart appears on the inside back cover for fast reference
• taking a step-by-step, process approach to break up the analytical tasks into smaller steps, which reduces the degree to which students get lost in the material
• providing a variety of opportunities for students to actively engage in the material, including problem sets and answers, study questions, and practice exercises
• including a carefully crafted vocabulary appendix that allows students to review terms easily and quickly
• matching coverage to Dukeminier and Krier's PROPERTY, the leading casebook in the field, and most other Property casesbooks
• facilitating class presentation for instructors and visual learning for students through a Teacher's Manual and PowerPoint slides

Fully revised for its Second Edition, the text now:

• covers the USRAP (Uniform Statutory Rule Against Perpetuities) and other statutory revisions to the common law Rule Against Perpetuities
• includes new exercises
• responds to user comments