An Introduction to some fundamentals: First possession: acquisition of property by discovery, capture, and creation -- Subsequent possession: acquisition of property by find, adverse possession, and gift -- The System of estates (leaseholds aside): Possessory estates -- Future interests -- Co-ownership and marital interests -- Leaseholds: the law of landlord and tenant: Tradition, tension, and change in landlord-tenant law -- Transfers of land: The Land transaction -- Title assurance -- Control of land use through "Private" and "Public" means: Private land-use arrangements: a comparative study of servitudes -- "Judicial zonning" processes, practices, and problems -- Eminent domain and the problem of regulatory takings