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  • The Colorado Doctrine

    Water Rights, Corporations, and Distributive Justice on the American Frontier

    by Prof. David Schorr ...
    Series series Yale Law Library Series in Legal History and Reference
    Making extensive use of archival and other primary sources, David Schorr demonstrates that the development of the “appropriation doctrine,” a system of private rights in water, was part of a radical attack on monopoly and corporate power in the arid West. Schorr describes how Colorado miners, irrigators, lawmakers, and judges forged a system of private property in water based on a desire to spread ... Read more

    $58.49 USD

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  • The Common Law

    by Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. ...
    The Common Law is a book about common law in the United states, including torts, property, contracts and crime, written by Supreme Court Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. This classic is a must read for anyone wishing to understand American Common Law from an historical perspective. Simply one of the most important books ever written on American Law. ... Read more

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  • Land Law

    by Judith Bray ...
    Series series Key Facts Key Cases
    Key Facts Key Cases: Land Law will ensure you grasp the main concepts of your Land Law module with ease. This book explains the facts and associated case law for:The definition of landThe registered land systemCo-ownershipExpress, resulting and constructive trusts in landLeasesKey rights in land such as easements and covenantsMortgagesProprietary estoppel and licences.Adverse po... ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

  • Cosmic Constitutional Theory

    Why Americans Are Losing Their Inalienable Right to Self-Governance

    by J. Harvie Wilkinson, III ...
    Series series Inalienable Rights
    American constitutional law has undergone a transformation. Issues once left to the people have increasingly become the province of the courts. Subjects as diverse as abortion rights and firearms regulations, health care reform and counterterrorism efforts, not to mention a millennial presidential election, are more and more the domain of judges. What sparked this development? In this engaging ... Read more

    $41.39 USD

  • Banking on the Body

    by Kara W. Swanson ...
    Each year Americans supply blood, sperm, and breast milk to "banks" that store these products for use by strangers in medical procedures. Who gives, who receives, who profits? Kara Swanson traces body banks from the first experiments that discovered therapeutic uses for body products to current websites that facilitate a thriving global exchange. ... Read more

    $28.69 USD

  • Lytton’S Handbook on Texas Property Law

    by Lee Lytton ...
    Knowing all the ins and outs of property law from state to state can be a difficult and time-consuming task. When issues arise related to ownership and tenancy of property, it is important for lawyers, real estate brokers and agents, and landmen to have an efficient and comprehensive way to both understand and clarify the precedents, regulations, and rights associated with state property laws. ... Read more

    $9.59 USD

  • Practice Notes on Conveyancing

    by Ross Coates, Nicholas Attwell ...
    Series series Practice Notes
    The basic essentials of the conveyancing transaction are of long standing, but recent years have seen many developments, which this book incorporates. As the legal profession has endeavoured to adapt to commercial pressures, so the art and practice of conveyancing has had to respond to the realities of modern day life.This new edition represents a more comprehensive contribution to the art and ... Read more

    $72.99 USD

  • Beyond Communal and Individual Ownership

    Indigenous Land Reform in Australia

    by Leon Terrill ...
    Series series Routledge Complex Real Property Rights Series
    Over the last decade, Australian governments have introduced a series of land reforms in communities on Indigenous land. This book is the first in-depth study of these significant and far reaching reforms. It explains how the reforms came about, what they do and their consequences for Indigenous landowners and community residents. It also revisits the rationale for their introduction and discusses ... Read more

    $62.99 USD

  • Protection of Immovables in European Legal Systems

    Edited by Sonia Martin Santisteban, Peter Sparkes ...
    Series series The Common Core of European Private Law
    How should a landowner respond when a squatter occupies their land? This book discusses the issues focussing on vindicatio, possessory remedies and trespass, but also explores administrative procedures for their removal. In many cases, these actions derive from Roman laws, which are expertly explored in an introductory chapter. Also included is a chapter exploring human rights interventions in ... Read more

    $146.79 USD

  • A License to Steal

    The Forfeiture of Property

    by Leonard W. Levy ...
    Leonard Levy traces the development and implementation of forfeiture and contends that it is a questionable practice, which, because it is so often abused, serves only to undermine civil society. Arguing that civil forfeiture is unconstitutional, Levy provides examples of the victimization of innocent people and demonstrates that it has been used primarily against petty offienders rather than ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • When Things Become Property

    Land Reform, Authority and Value in Postsocialist Europe and Asia

    by Thomas Sikor, Stefan Dorondel, Johannes Stahl, Phuc Xuan To ...
    Series Book 3 - Max Planck Studies in Anthropology and Economy
    Governments have conferred ownership titles to many citizens throughout the world in an effort to turn things into property. Almost all elements of nature have become the target of property laws, from the classic preoccupation with land to more ephemeral material, such as air and genetic resources. When Things Become Property interrogates the mixed outcomes of conferring ownership by examining ... Read more

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  • Contested Property Claims

    What Disagreement Tells Us About Ownership

    Edited by Maja Hojer Bruun, Patrick Joseph Cockburn, Bjarke Skærlund Risager, Mikkel Thorup ...
    Series series Social Justice
    Property relations are such a common feature of social life that the complexity of the web of laws, practices, and ideas that allow a property regime to function smoothly are often forgotten. But we are quickly reminded of this complexity when conflict over property erupts. When social actors confront a property regime – for example by squatting – they enact what can be called ‘contested property ... Read more

    $62.99 USD