Includes index.

First possession: acquisition of property by discovery, capture, and creation -- Subsequent possession: acquisition of property by find, adverse possession, and gift -- Possessory estates -- Future interests -- Co-ownership and marital interests -- Tradition, tension, and change in landlord-tenant law -- The land transaction -- Title assurance -- Judicial land use controls: the law of nuisance -- Private land use controls: the law of servitudes -- Legislative land use controls: the law of zoning -- Eminent domain and the problem of regulatory takings.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.