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The Surveyor's Bible
While preparing for my licensing exam, I read this book from cover to cover. It addresses every principle of retracement (sequential and simultaneous conveyances), public lands, and riparian issues thoroughly. The highlighted "principle" at the heading of each new topic makes remembering the main points simple. I can honestly say that every question on the NCEES exam that dealt with general principles and practice was answered in this book. I passed on my first sitting, and this book was one of the main reasons why. If you can only study one reference, this is it. Every practicing surveyor should also refer to it regularly.

Boundary Control and Legal Principals
This is the definitive work on boundary control. Technicians preparing for the SIT and PLS tests should own this book.

Brown's Boundary Control and Legal Priciples
This is a must own book for Land Surveyors, or Survey technicians. ... Read more

Subjects:  1. Boundaries (Estates)    2. Business Law    3. Emigration & Immigration    4. Engineering - Civil    5. Law    6. Law and legislation    7. Legal Reference / Law Profession    8. Property    9. Property Law    10. Science/Mathematics    11. Surveying    12. Title examinations    13. United States    14. Property, real estate, land & tenancy law    15. Technology / Engineering / Civil    16. USA   

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Superb
Another excelent hard bound text from Thompson/Delmar Learning publishing house. This textbook will teach you the fundamentals of real estate law giving you example after example on situations with can and probably will occur. ... Read more

Subjects:  1. Business & Economics    2. Business Law    3. Business/Economics    4. Law and legislation    5. Legal Reference / Law Profession    6. Real Estate    7. Real estate business    8. Real property    9. United States    10. Vendors and purchasers    11. Business & Economics / General    12. Organizational theory & behaviour    13. Property, real estate, land & tenancy law    14. USA   

Editorial Review

Anyone who has ever been a landlord knows that the rental business is tightly regulated. As the authors of Read more

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Great Legal Guide / Reference
This book is incredibly thorough and it even points you to the relevant statutes in your state so you can look up the relevant laws. It is a great book. One thing to note is that all forms that you could want to edit are included on the CDROM as RTF files editable in any word processing program--a previous reviewer was wrong in saying that only PDF files were included on the CDROM.
Unuseable PDF forms
This book seems to have a wealth of information and includes a CD with numerous forms, the Word documents are very useful.The PDF forms are not.The problem is none of them are editable.Why even include them?Why not creat them in Word format?This is unsatisfactory and a complete waste of time.Why even provide the forms electronically if you can't customize them, you might as well buy a book with the paper forms and photo copy them.

Every Landlord's Legal Guide (Paperback)
Great Source of information and works well with the second book I bought called:Landlord's Rights & Duties In Florida, 10E
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Subjects:  1. Business & Economics    2. Business/Economics    3. Landlord And Tenant    4. Leases    5. Legal Reference / Law Profession    6. Popular works    7. Practical Guides    8. Property    9. Property Law    10. Real Estate    11. Real Estate - General    12. Rent    13. United States   

Reviews (3)

Missed Its Target Audience...
Undeniably, Professor Stoebuck is one of the brightest scholars around in Property law, but this book misses its mark for what it was intended for.West's Hornbook series are designed to be used by first year law students learning the law, non-legal scholars who need a quick reference for whatever they are working on, or the practicing attorney who doesn't have the time or money to use one of West's multi-volume practicioner series treatises.
Heavily detailed, but useful for Property students
ALthough this text contains about 10x what the average 1L will need for a Property exam, it was a very helpful guide through a very difficultsubject.It will remain on my shelf just in case I change the very core ofmy being and someday become a real estate lawyer.Students of Property:this is the ONLY text that will help you outside of the classroom.

Excellent resource for a difficult area of the law
This is an excellent treatise covering the major areas and topics of property law.It is sighted often by leading casebooks, including Singer's Property Law.I highly recommend this book to law students as the othersecondary sources in this area of law are woefully lacking. ... Read more

Subjects:  1. Law    2. Legal Reference / Law Profession    3. Property    4. Real property    5. United States    6. Private, property, family law   

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A classic text badly in need of editing.
First & second editions of this text have long been considered standards in the land surveying profession, but I was disappointed with this (the 3rd) edition.The material is all there, but badly in need of a careful editor.Errors in punctuation and typography were frequent enough to be a real distraction.I found myself pencilling corrections in the margins as I read! For instance, long quotations, not set with a change of fonts, or even quotation marks, made for difficult interpretation.I had the distinct impression that certain chapters were revised in a hurry, and that perhaps each author thought the other was checking the work. In at least one chapter, it appeared that two different authors took a stab at addressing a single subject and both were included in the book although in DRAFT form!The authors also need to update discussions of measurement methodologies to include electronic total stations, data collectors and GPS.Though I'm not a real big adv! ocate of gender-neutral writing, the next edition should totally expunge the term "title men", which must appear 15 times.Read more

Subjects:  1. Boundaries (Estates)    2. Engineering - Civil    3. Legal Reference / Law Profession    4. Property    5. Science/Mathematics    6. Technology    7. United States    8. Civil Engineering, Surveying & Building    9. Technology / Engineering / Civil   

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popular ... but why?
After completing my first year of law school, I really wonder why so many professors use this textbook.More than half the people I spoke with in my class thought the casebook's usability was poor or worse.
Not bad...
This is probably one of the easier to understand case books I have read.It is incredibly dull, but it covers all the concepts well and includes some useful graphics (as well as some pointless ones).It's certainly worth its cost.

Kinda Lousy
This is easily the WORST casebook I have ever owned.
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Subjects:  1. Administrative Law & Regulatory Practice    2. Cases    3. Law    4. Legal Reference / Law Profession    5. Property    6. United States   

Subjects:  1. Business & Economics    2. Business / Economics / Finance    3. Business/Economics    4. Developing countries    5. Development - Business Development    6. Development - Economic Development    7. Development - Sustainable Development    8. Government policy    9. Industries - General    10. Land reform    11. Land tenure    12. Land use    13. Public Policy - Economic Policy    14. Real Estate - General    15. Business & Economics / Economic Development    16. Economics | Agricultural    17. Land rights    18. Property & real estate    19. Property, real estate, land & tenancy law   

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Little value...but $30 may be worth it.
The pictures and "instant facts" made the cases much easier to remember.HOWEVER: When I reviewed for finals and used these case briefs to refresh in my mind cases I had read, I discovered MANY critical typos.For example, in several cases, the synopses labeled the wrong parties as "P" (the plaintiff).We law students love to throw money at anything we hope will give us an edge.And I suppose any cost is justified if viewed from the proper perspective.This $30 book should increase your understanding of your $15,000 semester roughly 0.2%.It's simple math and economics.Ha ha.Not a bad book if you run out of time to study...otherwise stick to Aspen Law's Examples and Explanations.

1L's Arsenal for Survival
High Court Summaries are an excellent way to supplement the reading assignments.The pictures are great for committing the cases to memory.I highly recommend these. ... Read more

Subjects:  1. Law    2. Property    3. Private, property, family law   

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Excellent Book
I didn't even read the casebook because it was too blah... This was the best book I found for Future Interests...

Somewhat helpful
For the most part, there is nothing this book can teach you that you won't find in your casebook, but the problems are good practice. A lot of the information is helpful, but I don't know if you can trust all of the answers. My study group and I have found various confusing mistakes within and it has cost us valuable study time. See e.g. page 152 --second paragraph explaining a RAP problem (the author confuses O and A in saying that all of A's children would be born or conceived upon O's death). ... Read more

Subjects:  1. Administrative Law & Regulatory Practice    2. Estates (Law)    3. Future interests    4. Law    5. Legal Reference / Law Profession    6. Property    7. Real property    8. United States   

Editorial Review

Jeffery Leving has spent more than a decade in the trenches of domestic law. From that perspective, he gives men embroiled in custody disputes a powerful and impassioned voice in Read more

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Fathers and Men need to WAKE UP NOW
I felt compelled to write about this book after reading one of the reviews on it apparently written by a female.
Some good thoughts but overoptimistic
The author of this book certainly does not say anything that is untrue, even given the huge disparity of laws in the 50 states. However, on the front cover, among other things, he says you will learn how to:
Very informative
This book is a must read for all dads who are facing custody disputes of any type.Fathers are a very important part of a child's life and they should know how to fight to stay close and involved with their children. ... Read more

Subjects:  1. Child Care/Parenting    2. Child custody    3. Civil Procedure    4. Custody of children    5. Divorced fathers    6. Education    7. Family & Relationships    8. Family Law - Children    9. Legal Reference / Law Profession    10. Legal status, laws, etc.    11. Popular works    12. Practical Guides    13. United States    14. Law for the lay person    15. Private, property, family law    16. Separation & divorce    17. USA   

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Not sure if order has been cancelled yet
Have been waiting now over 5 weeks for this book to arrive.Class will be over in 9 weeks.Could not afford to wait any longer.Bought at local bookstore.Still have no idea whether book will be arriving in mail sometime this year, or whether order has been cancelled.Web-site will not let me cancel order. ... Read more

Subjects:  1. Administrative Law & Regulatory Practice    2. Business & Economics    3. Business/Economics    4. Estates & Trusts    5. General    6. Law    7. Legal Profession    8. Legal Reference / Law Profession    9. Legal assistants    10. Probate law and practice    11. Trusts and trustees    12. United States    13. Wills    14. Business & Economics / General    15. Education    16. Private, property, family law    17. USA   

Subjects:  1. Conveyancing    2. General    3. Law    4. Legal Reference / Law Profession    5. Legal assistants    6. Paralegal Services    7. Paralegals & Paralegalism    8. Property Law    9. Real Estate    10. Real property    11. United States    12. Vendors and purchasers    13. Business & Economics / General    14. Legal profession    15. Legal skills & practice    16. Property, real estate, land & tenancy law   

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Must-read for licensors
I have studied and compared Open Source licenses for a number of years.I came to the conclusion that the licenses created by Mr. Rosen were the best and I adopted one of them for my own Open Source projects.I have also read his book on the subject and I have concluded that it is also the best in its field.I recommend his book as a must-read for licensors of Open Source content.

Great for reference
When I recieved this book I was excited, finally I could read a book which would help my brain really understand all the licenses! I sat down to read it, and was impressed with how the author took the popular licenses and broke them down into more easily understandable. I mean, they *are* fairly straight forward, but the author gets into what they actually mean in legal terms, and that's interesting.
Readable and by a Lawyer.
Open source software is growing explosively around the world. The SourceForge web site now lists 87,006 projects being done by 912,545 people. That's almost a million people writing code, probably more than all of the programmers employed by Microsoft, Oracle, IBM, etc. etc.
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Subjects:  1. Computer Books: Languages    2. Computers    3. Law Of Intellectual Property    4. Law and legislation    5. Legal Reference / Law Profession    6. Open source software    7. Programming - Software Development    8. Property    9. United States    10. Computers / Operating Systems / Linux    11. Intellectual property, copyright & patents    12. Social & Legal Aspects of Computing   

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Emanel's Property
This was a very helpful supplement to the course material for the semester.It explains complex property theories in easy to manage summaries. ... Read more

Subjects:  1. General    2. Law    3. Legal Education    4. Legal Reference / Law Profession    5. Outlines, syllabi, etc    6. Property    7. Real property    8. United States    9. Property, real estate, land & tenancy law   

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Saved my bacon
The casebook and two days of classes left me utterly befogged - but an evening with this book cleared the mental clouds and clued me in. Most useful: the pages of questions - you get to test your understanding and check your answers against the detailed explanations. Lots and lots of questions, so you go over each point time and again. Especially useful for the Rule against Perpetuities.

a must for first year property
This book got me through property my fist year at law school.The answers for the study problems are wonderful in the fact that they explain exactly what you need to know to understand the reasoning behind the legal pricipal.This book was reccomended to my class by my professor to help us get through the toughest part of property law, Future interests. ... Read more

Subjects:  1. Estates & Trusts    2. Estates (Law)    3. Future interests    4. Law    5. Legal Reference / Law Profession    6. Problems, exercises, etc    7. Property    8. United States   

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Premiere text not aging gracefully
As a security professional and attorney with more than 30 years of experience, I have used this text in my graduate courses on security case law and security management for more than eight years with more than 400 students at two universities. The clarity of the author's text and the case-based format makes it an ideal text. K-Mart Law (i.e. The Rentacop's Bible)
According to editor David A. Maxwell, the role of subsidized law enforcement is becoming increasingly supplanted by private security personnel (primarily as a result of municipal tax dollars spreading too thin, but also as a buffer to litigation from citizens injured and/or victimized on private property), and as a result, the criminal justice system will be forced to engineer new legal paradigms to control these corporate spaces, what with our "public" environments becoming increasingly privatized (shopping malls, apartment buildings, condominiums, retail outlets, hotels, bars, restaurants, casinos, health care institutions), a postmodern Main Street, fragmented and decentralized.What the industry needs (and what Maxwell provides) are a series of discourses that explore these new legal dangers and issues of accountability, providing a code of ethics for underpaid, underrespected "rentacops" who nevertheless find themselves bearing the brunt of municipal police functionality, badge-wearing "civilians" with limited arrest and investigatory powers.Read more

Subjects:  1. Business & Economics    2. Business/Economics    3. Cases    4. Civil Procedure    5. Industries - General    6. Legal Reference / Law Profession    7. Police, Private    8. Private Security    9. Private security services    10. United States    11. Business & Economics / Industries    12. English law: criminal law    13. Private, property, family law    14. Security services    15. USA   

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Decent, but not necessary for my course
My prof was not an old school prof that didn't teach us anything (like many law profs), so I didn't really need this book much. In addition, this book's usefulness varied by section. The Co-Ownership section was decent. I actually found that the section on Covenants was pretty bad. The authors' explanation of "touch and concern" was not good. In contrast, I found the section on Estates and Future Interests (three chapters) to be very helpful.

When reading the reviews below understand they are for old edition
First---as I've reviewed for the other E&E's, the database is melding the reviews together.
Make sure you're getting the new edition
The two editions appear to be tied together in Amazon's database.Reviews given to one appear in both places.In my opinion, the Second Edition (ISBN 0735539790) resolves a lot of the criticisms that I have heard and read about the first edition.Let the reviews scare you away from the old edition, but give the new one a look.It's worth it. ... Read more

Subjects:  1. Cases    2. Law    3. Legal Reference / Law Profession    4. Problems, exercises, etc    5. Property    6. United States   

Subjects:  1. Administrative Law & Regulatory Practice    2. Business / Economics / Finance    3. Business/Economics    4. Charitable uses, trusts, and f    5. Charitable uses, trusts, and foundations    6. Estate Planning    7. Estates & Trusts    8. Law    9. Miscellanea    10. Non-Profit Organizations Management    11. Nonprofit Organizations & Charities    12. Small Business - Legal Guides    13. Taxation    14. United States    15. Business & Economics / Nonprofit Organizations & Charities    16. Non-profitmaking organizations    17. Private, property, family law    18. USA   

Subjects:  1. Law    2. Law and economics    3. Property    4. Public policy (Law)    5. Sociological jurisprudence   

Subjects:  1. Administrative Law & Regulatory Practice    2. Law    3. Legal Reference / Law Profession    4. Property    5. Private, property, family law