Chapter 17 Property Rights

Index

Section 17.1 Introduction
Section 17.2 Nature and Elements
Section 17.3 Possession
Section 17.4 Intent
Section 17.5 Demand for Return
Section 17.6 Wrongful Assertion of a Right to Possession
Section 17.7 Property Subject to Conversion
Section 17.8 Persons Entitled to Sue
Section 17.9 Persons Liable
Section 17.10 Abandonment
Section 17.11 Mistake, Return, or Recovery
Section 17.12 Presumptions and Burdens of Proof
Section 17.13 Damages
Section 17.14 Measure of Damages
Section 17.15 Interest
Section 17.16 Mitigation of Damages
Section 17.17 Exemplary Damages
Section 17.18 Generally
Section 17.19 Definition
Section 17.20 Right to Possession
Section 17.21 Surrender of Possession
Section 17.22 Disturbance of Possessor Interest
Section 17.23 Negligence
Section 17.24 Necessity of Proving Damages
Section 17.25 Measure of Damages
Section 17.26 Statutory Trespass Action
Section 17.27 Defenses
Section 17.28 Additional References
Section 17.29 Generally
Section 17.30 Intentional Trespass
Section 17.31 Negligent Trespass
Section 17.32 Intent in Trespass Actions
Section 17.33 Actual and Constructive Possession
Section 17.34 Title to Property Not Required to Maintain Action
Section 17.35 Rights of Third Parties as Defense
Section 17.36 Possession as a Defense in Action by Owner
Section 17.37 Tenant at Will Cannot Maintain Action
Section 17.38 Entry Without Permission
Section 17.39 Failure to Act or Failure to Leave
Section 17.40 Liability for Act of Third Party
Section 17.41 Trespass Above and Below the Ground
Section 17.42 Aviation and the Right of Possession
Section 17.43 Continuing Trespass
Section 17.44 Mistake
Section 17.45 Consent
Section 17.46 Authority
Section 17.47 Title
Section 17.48 Necessity of Proving Damages
Section 17.49 Consequential Damages
Section 17.50 Measure of Damages
Section 17.51 Exemplary Damages
Section 17.52 Landowner Liability to Trespasser
Section 17.53 Water and Water Rights
Section 17.54 Riparian Rights
Section 17.55 Definition
Section 17.56 Artificial Waterways
Section 17.57 Lowlands
Section 17.58 Interference With Quantity or Quality of Flow of a Watercourse
Section 17.59 Theories of Recovery
Section 17.60 Defenses
Section 17.61 Damages
Section 17.62 Pollution
Section 17.63 Subterranean and Percolating Waters
Section 17.64 Surface Water
Section 17.65 Nuisance Defined
Section 17.66 Private and Public Nuisance Distinguished
Section 17.67 Unreasonableness
Section 17.68 Interest of Public
Section 17.69 Interest in Land
Section 17.70 Basis of Liability
Section 17.71 Nuisance Per Se
Section 17.72 Interest Invaded
Section 17.73 Defenses
Section 17.74 Traditional Tort Defenses
Section 17.75 Acquiescence
Section 17.76 Prescriptive Easement
Section 17.77 Laches
Section 17.78 Statute of Limitations
Section 17.79 Coming to the Nuisance
Section 17.80 Activities of Others
Section 17.81 Legislative Authority
Section 17.82 Remedies
Section 17.83 Damages
Section 17.84 Punitive Damages
Section 17.85 Equitable Relief
Section 17.86 Abatement by Self-Help
Section 17.87 Waste Historically
Section 17.88 Elements
Section 17.89 Injury to the Inheritance
Section 17.90 Nature of Land and Prior Use
Section 17.91 Unauthorized Conduct Not Always Waste
Section 17.92 Privity of Estate
Section 17.93 Types of Waste
Section 17.94 Voluntary Waste
Section 17.95 Meliorating Waste
Section 17.96 Permissive Waste
Section 17.97 Equitable Waste
Section 17.98 Legal Possessor of Land
Section 17.99 Tenant
Section 17.100 Tenant’s Agents and Employees
Section 17.101 Mortgagor and Subsequent Mortgagee
Section 17.102 Stranger Not Liable
Section 17.103 Third Parties May Not Be Liable
Section 17.104 Owner of Fee Not Liable
Section 17.105 One Cotenant Liable to Other Cotenants
Section 17.106 Exceptions to Liability
Section 17.107 Requirement of Vested Future Interest
Section 17.108 Contingent Remainderperson Has No Action
Section 17.109 Tenant Has No Action
Section 17.110 Equitable Remedies for Contingent Remainderperson
Section 17.111 Equitable Remedies for Life Tenants
Section 17.112 Rights of "Heirs"
Section 17.113 Damages
Section 17.114 Forfeiture
Section 17.115 Injunction
Section 17.116 Receivership