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Distinguishing License from Leases
- - Whether Occupies specific, Distinct Area
- -Degree of control over area, can owner be excluded?
- -Non-assignable
- -Intent of parties, language used in agreement
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Concurrent Estates
- -Tenancy in common
- -Joint tenancy
- -Community property
- -Severance of Joint Tenancies
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Marital Property
- - Divorce
- -Death
- -Community property and
- -title-based states and
- -professional licenses, degrees, right of publicity
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Landlord duties and tenant remedies
- -quiet enjoyment
- ---beginning of lease term
- ---during lease term
- -constructive eviction
- -repair and deduct
- -Warranty of habitability
- -implied warranty of suitability (comercial)
- -damage measures
- -common law tenancies and notice periods
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tenant breach and landlord remedies
- -surrender and acceptance
- -duty to mitigate
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Subleases and assignments
- characterization
- consequences
- connecting dots covanants runing with land
- clauses prohibiting subleases and assignments
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Easemaent creation
- grant
- reservation
- easement v. fee
- stranger to deed
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Easement scope
interpretation and rules of construction
- permissible use
- location and relocation
- maintenance
- repairs and improvement
- change in / increase in use
- third-party use
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easement succession
- appurtenant or in gross
- succession to dominant estate
- -intent
- succession to servient estate
- -intent
- -notice to GFP
- succession of in gross easement
- -servient estate-same rules
- -assignability of benefit
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Covenants: creation and validity
- "not unreasinable"
- public policy
- restraints on alienation
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Covenants runiing with the land
- Running requirements chart
- not responible for new restatement
- touch and concern
- -physical relationship to land
- -economic relationship to land
- -not a violation of public policy to run
- superiour title
- landlord in context of covenants between lesee and sublesses
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Defenses to enforcement of covenants
- change of circumstances - covenant no longer serves its intended purpose
- -purpose can no longer be fulfilled
- -purpose has already been met
- relative hardship - burden out weighs benefit
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Nuisance
- intentional, nontrespassory, substantial interference with the use and enjoyment of plaintiffs land
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- remedies
- -none
- -injunction
- -damages
- -compensated injunction
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Zoning
- types
- defenses
- -vested rights
- -estopel
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Water law
- types
- -surface water
- -groundwater
- surface rights
- -riparian rights
- - prior appropriation
- -hybrid
- -goverment permitting and regulation
- groundwater rights
- -capture
- -american reasonable use
- -rest of reasonable use
- goverment regulation and permiting
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adverse possession
- Hostile/advers under claim of right
- exclusive
- actual
- continuous
- open and notorious
- (taxes)
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averse possession : various twists
- Claim of right
- -objective
- -subjective
- color of title
- tacking
- tolling
- prescriptive easements
- agreed boundaries
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Deed descriptions
- plats and land maps
- metes and bounds
- common problems with descriptions
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Mortgages
mechanics of first and second mortgages and foreclosure
right of redemption
- form over substance
- -sale-leasebacks
- market sales price
- market rents
- market repurchase option
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Recording statutes
- first in time, first in right
- recording statutes create exceptions
- -race
- -notice
- -race notice
- purchaser for value
- good faith/notice
- -record notice
- -off record notice
- whild deeds (may be treated as not recorded)
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Intellectual property
- trademarks
- copyrights
- rights to publicity (state law)
- hot news
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trademarks
- secondary meaning
- likelihood of confusion
- misappropriation
- tarnishment
- polarioid factors
- fair use
- -non trademark use
- -descriptive of users goods
- -used fairly and in good faith only to describe
- abandonment
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copyrights
- affixtion
- originality
- idea/expression dichotomy and merger
- thinnes and standard applied
- -substantially similar
- -virtually identity
- fair use
- works for hire
- -independent contractors
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Right to publicity
- commercial misappropriation of persona
- descendibility
- marital property
- First amendment/fair use
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