Property Law: Rules, Policies and Practices, 5th Edition

Singer's casebook was my favorite textbook of fall quarter. It is well organized and follows a very logical progression. The table of contents is perfect for pulling from to give your outline its structure and layout. Each topic is organized by an introductory section, a case that provides an overview of the general legal issues pertaining to that issue, notes summarizing and giving the black letter law and exceptions, and then additional squib cases that flesh out more detail or show the opposite side of a legal issue. Overall, the book was well written and, as a 1L, I appreciated the straightforward organization of this textbook vs. some of my other textbooks where the writers don't give any context to cases and you really have to rely on a course supplement or hornbook for context.

Your typical $200 plus casebook with minimal explanations. Leaves the reader having to go to other $30 books to get explanations. That's why there is such a ma$$ market for supplementary books (Lexis, Crunchtime, Emmanuel, Gilbert's, WestLaw, etc.) Read the supplements first and then you might be able to get an idea of what in the world the editors mean by the contents.

Not very new, but good and useful.

The majority of the book was good quality, but a large section of the back of the book was in bad quality. The pages were all wrinkled and pushed into the binding. Overall it is good quality, but not to the level that I expected for the price and the standard that was specified.

This is probably my favorite casebook that I've used so far in law school. The book does a good job laying out and explaining the relevant concepts in between blocks of cases, so you're not left to extract the black letter law on your own from cases. This is especially helpful for estates (the terminology chart saved my life on the final) and the rule against perpetuities (any help deciphering that rule is most welcome).

It has some good information in there, and I find it may be helpful when I become a lawyer.

It really is one of the better casebooks, with notes outside of the cases that do an outstanding job of clearing up any confusions rather than complicating matters more. The notes give you great background rather than asking unanswered (and sometimes unanswerable) questions.

This is the worst textbook I have ever been forced to buy.Singer's organizational system can be best described as "is there one?" He switches around what terms he uses to refer to a concept, making it very unclear as to what he is actually talking about. He also often includes the same concept of law in multiple chapters, which makes outlining very difficult. Although it is clear that Singer is very well-educated and presumably knows what he is talking about, it does not come off in this book.A lot of the cases also don't really have anything to do with the concept they're trying to explain--especially in the chapter on covenants.There are definitely better property books out there.