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3. The Law of Real Estate.

Professor Minor.

The instruction in this class covers a detailed and careful study of
the subject of Real Property Law, in all its branches. The nature and
several kinds of real estate, and the various estates therein, with the
principles appertaining to each, curtesy and dower, the relations of
landlord and tenant, co-tenancies, the feudal tenures and principles,
uses and trusts, the far-reaching effects of the Statute of Uses, the
conditions, covenants and other qualifications attached to conveyances
of land, are reviewed at length. The historical connection between
ancient and modern doctrines of conveyancing, with the statutory
changes, are carefully traced. Remainders, reversions, and executory
limitations, and the principles governing their creation, validity, and
effect, together with the sources of title to lands, whether by descent

or by the manifold forms of purchase, and the principles controlling
each, the subjects of conveyances, contracts to convey, wills
of lands, adverse possession, the registry of instruments of title, and
the principles regulating the acquisition and validity of tax-titles, are
investigated in detail.

Throughout this course, emphasis is placed on common law principles,
and effort is made to give the student a clear comprehension of
these, by tracing them to their feudal or other sources, and by following
them into the modern forms they have assumed under the guiding
hand of the courts and the legislature.—September 15 to March 9—Three
times a week.

Text-Books.—2 Minor's Institutes (4th edition).

Tax Titles: Minor.

The Professor's Notes.