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Application ..................................................................................

From Property: Volume 1 Christian Turner Assistant Professor of Law University of Georgia School of Law eLangdell® Press 2012 by Christian

Concepts

1. Legal Systems

   "Contracts, Torts, and Criminal Law are substantive fields of the law. By that, I mean that they are basic categories of causes of action. They differ in the identity of the institution that controls

2. Case Analysis

   "In each of these courses, you will learn an identical pattern for analyzing a lawsuit: Duty, Breach, Causation, Defenses, Damages. These may be taken up in different orders. The steps may even be giv

3. Property

   "Property, as a vaguely defined collection of contract, tort, and criminal cases, does not take on the natural structure of a substantive area of the law through the systematic study of duty, breach,

4. Entitlement

   "Common to many of the topics we will cover are notions of “ownership” and “entitlement.” We will see that these concepts are not self-defining. Instead, what it means to own something will depend ent