| This second edition has given me the opportunity to correct mistakesin the first edition and to revise the order of some of the materials to reflectmore accurately the ways in which teachers actually use the book. Some ma-terials in Chapters 3 and 9 have been reorganized, and other chapters reflectminor changes in the placement of cases and explanatory text. Chapter 6 oncommon ownership now precedes Chapter 7 on landlord-tenant law ratherthan following it. In one major change, Chapters 4 (on servitudes) and 5 (onfuture interests) in the first edition have been combined into a single chapter.This unusual treatment has two purposes. First, I wanted to combine mate-rials on restraints on alienation and racial restrictions that had previously beendivided between the two chapters. Second, I wanted to emphasize both thesimilarities and the contrasts between servitudes and future interests. Bothconstitute private arrangements--usually contractual--designed to restrictor allocate either the use or ownership of real property. Sometimes the twodevices are used simultaneously. Because both servitudes and future interestsraise questions about the interpretation and regulation of private arrange-ments that divide property rights in complicated ways, and because some ofthe most important legal rules apply to both types of arrangements, it seemedappropriate to treat them as part of the same general topic. |
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