Part IV

Acquiring and Transferring Property Rights

In this part . . .

Property law deals with how people become property owners. Get ready to discover how land is bought and sold as well as the circumstances in which you can become an owner simply by possessing property. I also explain how recording statutes protect buyers of land from property claims that they don’t know about, how people use mortgages to facilitate buying land, and how foreclosures work when a buyer doesn’t repay her loan.