This course covers fundamental property concepts: personal property, including lost property, bailments, common-law possessory liens and gifts; real property, including nature and extent of interests in land and types of estates, conveyancing, acquisition of title by adverse possession, recording; land use and development, including such limitations as nuisance, zoning, and contractual limitations; eminent domain; and the modern real estate transaction.

This foundational substantive course is part of the Core Curriculum. All students must complete this course during their first year of study. Materials presented in this course are tested on the New York Law Exam (NYLE), Multistate Bar Exam (MBE) and Multistate Essay Exam (MEE).

4 Credits