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Colorado Real Property Law is the most comprehensive treatise on Colorado real property to date. Providing almost 200 years of state land history in one source, this beautiful softbound, 2-volume set is filled with reference material for real property lawyers, litigators, title professionals, and law professors, as well as anyone who needs detailed information about Colorado law on real property.
The book provides all the relevant legal history, legislation, and case law on which modern real estate practice in Colorado is based. Plus, it provides broad substantive information about the current status of real property law in Colorado over a wide range of topics, including mortgages and deeds, foreclosure, common-interest communities, land subdivision, easements, eminent domain, recording, bankruptcy, liens, and transfer of property at death. Whether you deal exclusively with real property or only occasionally have to answer clients’ real property law questions, this book has the answers you need.
Colorado Real Property Law is the perfect tool for clarification of issues or as a starting point for almost every real property research project. With 33 chapters and more than 7,000 footnotes, it is the one publication no attorney who deals with Colorado real property should be without.
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"This is the most authoritative work on Colorado real estate law ever generated. It will undoubtedly become the reference lawbook in every real estate lawyer's library."--James G. Bengamin, Benjamin, Bain, Howard & Cohen, LLC
Summary Table of Contents
Volume 1 PART ONE: INTRODUCTORY Chapter 1: Origin of Colorado Titles Chapter 2: Real Property Chapter 2A: Manufactured Homes Chapter 3: Persons Who May Acquire, Hold, And Convey PART TWO: RIGHTS IN REAL PROPERTY Chapter 4: Property of Married Persons Chapter 5: Joint Tenancy and Tenancy in Common Chapter 6: Estates in Real Property Chapter 7: Condominiums and Other Types of Multiple Ownership Chapter 8: Easements, Profits, Licenses, and Franchises Chapter 9: Mortgages and Deeds of Trust Chapter 10: Liens Chapter 11: Homesteads Chapter 12: Covenants Chapter 12A: Cemeteries PART THREE: TRANSFER OF INTERESTS IN REAL PROPERTY Chapter 13: Surveys, Boundaries, and Descriptions Chapter 14: Land Contracts Chapter 15: Leases
Volume 2 PART THREE: TRANSFER OF INTERESTS IN REAL PROPERTY (Cont'd) Chapter 16: Deeds and Conveyancing Chapter 17: Transfer of Property at Death Chapter 18: Adverse Possession and Prescription Chapter 18A: Adverse Possession (On and After July 1, 2008) Chapter 19: Abandonment, Forfeiture, and Other Transfers of Title Chapter 20: Foreclosure Chapter 21: Recording and Notice PART FOUR: REAL PROPERTY LITIGATION Chapter 22: Litigation Regarding Possession or Title Chapter 23: Real Property in Bankruptcy Chapter 24: Real Property Torts Chapter 24A: Real Property Crimes PART FIVE: GOVERNMENTAL INVOLVEMENT WITH REAL PROPERTY Chapter 25: Real Property Taxation Chapter 26: State Lands Chapter 27: Public Roads Chapter 28: Dedication Chapter 29: Eminent Domain Chapter 30: Land Subdivision Index
George E. Reeves, Esq. has been engaged in private practice since 1966 in Phoenix, San Francisco, and Denver, with an emphasis on real property title law and related litigation. He has served as in-house counsel for Homestake Mining Company and Houston Oil & Minerals Corporation, and has been a member of the Title Standards Committee of the Real Estate Section of the Colorado Bar Association since 1987. Mr. Reeves is a graduate of the Colorado School of Mines and the University of Arizona College of Law. He is admitted to practice in Colorado and, in an inactive status, Arizona and California.