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Property (Examples & Explanations)

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First---as I've reviewed for the other E&E's, the database is melding the reviews together.

I'm speaking of the newest edition which is quite good. I laughed reading the reviews below where people compare these to emanuel's and gilbert's when really they are a different breed.

If you do your job and outline and supplement with E&E you really can't go wrong. They provide explanations and practice, not a "hold your hand and walk you through everything and do your outlining for you" method that apparently a lot of students want--hence the sales of emanuels and gilbert's.

In sum, if you are looking for a comprehensive outline on law get a commercial outline. If you are looking for explanations and real practice, take a look at these. As the reviewer below stated, this newer edition is definately worth a shot.

You will read the cases and go to class, but you can't touch this subject until you've answered fifty questions WRONG. It can either be in this book or on the exam. You decide.

I used this book throughout the semester and read it alongside my case book. Usually other students struggled with the basics in class, but I already had the vocabulary and the black letter law down after reading this book. I don't understand the prior reviewer's comments bashing this book--perhaps they are referring to an earlier edition? I thought this book was easy to understand and a great supplement for a difficult course. Of course, Property is so difficult that I recommend using this study aid throughout the semester, rather than trying to cram it all in at the end--perhaps that is the issue prior reviewers had.

This book got me through my Property Exam, especially the parts concerning conveyances. If you have a professor who'd rather ramble on for hours on end about conveyances, without really explaining what all the terms mean, then you are going to need this book. The other parts are also helpful -- covenants, nuisance, and restrictions on land use -- but I mainly focused on the conveyance sections.

This book was great at explaining some of the weird property rules that are out there in a way that was very understandable, and most importantly, easy to remember. My property class was only one semester, so we didn't cover everything that was in the book, but I can attest to the personal property stuff, adverse possession, servitudes, landlord-tenant law, zoning, nuisance, and eminent domain.

This book, like most of the other E&E series, were essential for me to get through the first semester of law school. There are some who claim that using these books mean one doesn't pay enough attention in class. This is just flat wrong. I went to class every day but still couldn't grasp the Rule Against Perpetuities until I read this book. I just wish I had known about these E&E books before I went to law school.

This is a useful resource but unfortunately contains a good many typographical errors. Often these would not be a problem, but where the "Example" identifies people as, for instance, A, B and C, and the "Explanation" indicates A where it should indicate B, that's definitely a problem and may confuse some readers. Obviously the vast majority of these are correct, but in a book like this they should ALL be correct, without exception.

E&E is a good series, but watch out for typos in this volume; there are a lot of them. And pay attention in class.

Very few of the cases in my text are listed in this E&E. I realize that it is not keyed to my text, but that makes it frustrating to utilize to supplement my material. At first, I thought I might have bought the wrong book. I hope that later in the semester it becomes more useful in explaining the concepts.

I have bought Example and Explanation books this past semester and they were extremely helpful in supplementing my learning. This property book, however, is terrible at the substance that it contains - which is very little to begin with. Every time I wanted to learn more about a subject, it either didn't include it or it had a paragraph about it when it should have had 2 or 3 pages on the subject. It does not cover the fair housing act much at all (other than in group home situations). Because this was so defunct in its explanations, assuming it had explanations in the first place, I bought the Gilbert Outlines. These outlines are great! A ton more in depth! Please save yourself the money and buy another book. Hopefully in later editions they will have fixed the places they lack.

Some of Property is pretty straightforward, and other topics are ridiculously counterintuitive. This book makes it so much easier to put it all together and make it ALL make sense. Especially essential if your prof is the type who likes to hear himself talk and never take questions ...