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Property Law (Dukeminier Concise Edition)
Acquisition of Property
By Find By Discovery / Capture (1
st
) By Adverse Possession
Lost Property (title against
the world, minus True
Owner)
- Armory v Delamirie
- Hannah v Peel
If found on your land, is the
finder ’ s over yours, generally.
- Not underground
Johnson v M ’ Intosh
Pierson v Post
Keeble v Kickeringill
Popov v Hayashi (baseball)
Jacque v Steenburg Homes
State v Shack
Have to capture fugitive
resources to own them.
1) Actual and Exclusive
2) Open and notorious
3) Continuous
4) Under claim of
right/hostile
& against successive owners
Fulkerson v VanBuren
Hollander v WMC
Howard v Kunto
O ’ Keefe v Snyder
By Gift Subleases/Assignments
1) Donor must intend to give the gift
(transfer title)
2) Donor must deliver the property
3) Donee must accept the gift
(presumed)
Inter vivos = irrevocable
Gift causa mortis à IMMINENT death &
revocable
Newman v Bost
Gruen v Gruen
Assignment à Entire interest
Sublease à tenant has remainder interest
Ernst v Conditt
Kendal v Ernest
Recording System :
1) Notice Jurisdiction à 1
st
purchaser ’ s deed has to be recorded BEFORE the occurrence of
the 2
nd
purchase to defeat the 2
nd
buyer.
2) Race Notice à 2
nd
purchaser (bona fide, good faith) record before 1
st
buyer to win
3) Race Jurisdiction à Record 1
st
to win (w/ or w/o good faith)
Luthi v Evans; Orr v Byers
Nuisance à Morgan v High Penn Oil Co.
Zoning
- Constitutionality à Village of Euclid v Amber Realty
- Nonconforming Use à PA Northwest v Zoning Hearing Board
- Expanding Aims of Zoning à State ex rel Stoyanoff v Berkeley ; City of Edmonds v Oxford
House ; Southern Burlington County v Mt. Laurel .

The Estates System
Type of Estate Freehold Estate? Future interest by
grantor?
Future interest held
by 3
rd
party?
Fee Simple Absolute Yes No future interest No future interest
Fee Simple Determinable Yes Possibility of
Reverter
Executory interest
Fee Simple Subject to
Condition Subsequent
Yes Right of Re-Entry Executory interest
Life Estate Yes Reversion Remainder
Term of Years, periodic
tenancy & tenancy-at-will
(leasehold)
No Reversion Remainder
Fee simple absolute: “ To Recipient (& heirs)(forever) ”
Life estate: “ To A for life ” ; “ to A for the life of B ”
Term of years: “ to A for [time] ”
Periodic tenancy: “ To A from year to year ”
Tenancy-at-will: “ To A, so long as we both are willing ”
Fee simple determinable: “ land to X, so long as Y ”
Fee simple subject to condition subsequent: “ to A & heirs, but if [condition/event] then
Grantor retains right to re-enter ”
White v Brown; Mahrenholz; Kajo Church Square v Walker
Future Interests:
1) Possibility of Reverter à