Getting the Lowdown on Property Law

AuthorAlan R. Romero
ProfessionProfessor of law and Director of the Rural Law Center at the University of Wyoming College of Law
Pages9-14
Chapter 1
Getting the Lowdown
on Property Law
In This Chapter
Defining property
Introducing ways of sharing ownership simultaneously or over time
Looking at ways of acquiring and transferring property
P
roperty law is the law about property. Okay, that’s probably not helpful,
but I have to start the book somehow.
Maybe it’s not that helpful, but it’s true. Because property law is law about
property, understanding what property law is requires understanding
what property is. In this chapter, I explain the types of legal rights that
constitute property and what the two big categories of property — real and
personal — include.
I also describe the ways that ownership may be shared and divided up over
time, and I identify ways people may become property owners and transfer
their ownership to other people.
Defining Property
Because property law is simply all types of laws about property, describing
property law requires defining property. That’s the organizing principle, the
common denominator, for law school courses about property law and for
this book. The following sections explain how property means having certain
types of legal rights in relation to a thing and introduce the two main types of
property.

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