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Property 2009
What is Property?
1.0
Animal Companions
Free
Colorado proposes that pets will no longer be considered property.
2.0
Spite Dogs
Free
The duty to use your property in a neighbor's interest.
3.0
Dogs R Us
Free
The right of a landowner to exclude others.
4.0
Baum Pool
Attractive nuisance and how to write a memo.
5.0
Sponsor's Hall
Property/liability rules and crystal/mud rules.
Acquiring Property
6.0
Howard Bailey
Abandoned/lost property. A horse is declared non gratis by disputing owners.
7.0
Montana Wilderness Outfitters
Acquiring property by capture. A ranch owner lures migratory elk with salt to improve hunting.
8.0
Estate of John Vail
Acquiring property by deed. The deed to the ranch is (probably) undelivered.
9.0
Garell Dorn Acquiring property by gift
A gift of royalties.
10.0
You Betchem, Red Ryder
Rights of one who takes title from a thief.
11.0
Kidney Failures in Green Iguanas
Ownership of the body and the sale of transplant organs
12.0
Nora Charles and Asta
Adverse possession of a restriction on having dogs.
Intellectual Property
13.0
Professor Tipsey
Copyright. A professor takes CaseFiles from Westlaw without permission.
14.0
The Nagy Combination
Patents. Can a way of holding a tennis racquet be patented?
15.0
www.case-file.com
Trademark. Name brand confusion on websites.
16.0
Greens-Collard and Golf
Right of publicity.
17.0
Professor Charles Dougley
Ownership of a concept. A professor copies the case selections in a competing casebook.
18.0
University of Iowa
Inventions. Does an employee or the employer own an invention.
Estates and Future Interests
19.0
River Ranch Trees
Life estates. The holder of a life estate wants to cut a grove of trees.
20.0
The Tarpon Pond
How should waste be defined where the grantor retains a life estate?
21.0
AmVestors
Rule against perpetuities. Is an option to purchase within the RAP?
22.0
The Martin Pool
Determinable fee v. fee on a condition subsequent. "To Ross Martin and his heirs on the understanding that the land will only be used for a softball field."
Co-ownership
23.0
The Frying Pan Cabin
Joint tenancy and tenancy in common. Relatives fight over a stream with fishing rights.
24.0
House of Breadfast
Tenancy in common. Partitioning real estate with a restaurant.
25.0
The Next Triki Woo
Reviewing condominium rules. When a pet dies, the new rules won't allow another.
26.0
Janzen Fhroman Exhibit
Cotenancy. A co-owner damages the property.
27.0
Fineman Hardware Store
Tenancy by the entireties. A husband burns down the store and the wife seeks insurance money.
28.0
Payton Main's Divorce
Marital property. A golfer makes the tour after separating from his wife.
Landlord-Tenant
29.0
Cocos Restaurant
Constructive eviction in a commercial setting. Circuit City opens next to a family restaurant.
30.0
Fit for Life
Landlord/tenant. Is the new arrangement a sublease or an assignment?
31.0
Virginia Trout Pond
Landlord/tenant. The duty of a landlord to secure access to a leased trout pond.
32.0
Colorado Tenants
Landlord/tenant. A child is injured in leased premises.
33.0
Old Dreams Photography
Landlord/tenant. A photography shop finds the water is unsuitable in its new location.
34.0
Far Oaks Mall
Landlord/tenant. Mitigation where a tenant breaches a lease.
35.0
Mouse in the House
Landlord/tenant. Mice as a breach of habitability.
36.0
Phil's House of Golf
Landlord tenant. A landlord's business encroaches on a tenant's property. What is the remedy?
Land Sales
37.0
Liquidated in Livingston
Sales of real property. Liquidated damages for the breach of a land sale contract.
38.0
Rose's Lease, by Any Other Name
Mortgages. Is this a sale, lease, or mortgage?
39.0
Crystal Mortgages
Mortgages. How to foreclose on a mortgage.
40.0
Exception 9
Sales of real property. Does an old non-compete clause render a title unmarketable?
41.0
Sherman Ranch
Sales of real property. Specific performance for promise to buy land.
42.0
Intranet's Computers
Fixtures. Must the computers and the wiring stay with the property?
43.0
Tucker's Garage
Sales of real property. Does the risk of rezoning fall on buyer or seller?
44.0
Shingles
Sales of real property. Does a streaked roof breach a seller's warranty?
Easements and Covenants
45.0
The Watchtower
Light easements.
46.0
The Wood Map
Covenants. A real estate developer's promise does not make it to the deed.
47.0
Fishing the Calfpasture
Easements gross and appurtenant. The owner of an easement to fish tries to go commercial.
48.0
Winkel Properties
Implied reciprocal negative easements. A minimum set-back is in some deeds, not others.
49.0
Scott v. Cannon
Easements by prescription, necessity. A Texas case is appealed.
50.0
The Komondor
Running covenants. Does a promise not to keep dogs run with the land?
51.0
Defeat of Jesse James Day
Interpretation of covenants.
Government Restrictions on Use
52.0
Ocean View (I)
Standing to challenge a government restraint on property use. Homeowner associations forbids for sale signs.
53.0
Ocean View (II)
First Amendment rights to display for sale signs.
54.0
Fair Share in Fair Valley
Zoning. A community considers zoning out the poor.
55.0
Decency in Grimes
A town zones out a topless bar.
56.0
Housing Controls in West Des Moines
Rent control. The wisdom of required set-asides of affordable housing.
57.0
Gravel Trucks on Cold Duck
Nuisance. Gravel trucks as a nuisance in a residential neighborhood.
Takings and Condemnation
58.0
The Gummie Families
Extinguishing a nonconforming use.
59.0
www.ogacihc.com
Eminent domain. Eminent domain of a website name.
60.0
Feldon phones
Takings. Can the city require phones in common areas of apartment houses?
61.0
Moose at Harold's Fork
Takings. A developer is required to designate prime property as a Moose trail.
62.0
Tennessee Malpractice
Takings. A doctor is required to serve on arbitration panels without pay.
63.0
Patty's Flower Shop
Condemnation. The city tries to condemn a flower shop so it can warehouse its trucks.
Bailments
64.0
Baxendale's Boat
Bailment. Goods are stolen from a boat left at a dock in Lake Powell.
65.0
Come Home, Stallone
Bailment. A dog disappears from a boarding kennel.
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