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For a fascinating look at the English and Roman roots of our property law, dig down to
http://www.snowcrest.net/siskfarm/tableoc.html.
A thorough and
comprehensible discussion of one state's marital property laws can
be found at http://www.reinhartlaw.com/.
For more on the power of community associations generally, see
http://www.meislik.com/articles/art03.htm.
A related nonpossessory
estate -- and one that can benefit society and posterity -- is a
conservation easement in which a property owner agrees to forbid
certain development on her property, forever. For an interesting
discussion of how the Canadian province of Ontario uses these easements
to preserve historic architecture and virgin wilderness, take a
look at http://www.heritagefdn.on.ca/Heritage/conservation2.htm.
For a sample
quitclaim deed, pack up and move to http://www.gate.net/~legalsvc/quit.html.
For some practical advice on how to quiet noisy neighbors, see
http://lawcrawler.findlaw.com/NOLO/nn167.html.
For a look at
the zoning code of one city -- Portland, Oregon -- go to http://www.planning.ci.portland.or.us/sections/sections.html.
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Your sister Samantha, owns a Montana ranch. For years, she and a neighbor have disputed ownership of 200 valuable acres. Samantha, exhausted, refuses to litigate, but you are willing to fight it out with her neighbor because the land is so valuable. How might a quitclaim deed be useful? Examine such a document at
http://www.gate.net/~legalsvc/quit.html. Then draft an agreement between you and Samantha concerning the land.
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Professionally selected and prepared by Roger Meiners, University
of Texas - Arlington, SW Legal's Case Updates provide the perfect information
source for your legal studies course.
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