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Restatement of the Law Fourth,

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This Restatement brings comprehensiveness and coherence to American property law. Subjects covered include the classification of entitlements, possession, accession, and acquisition; ownership powers; protection of and limits on ownership; divided and shared ownership; title and transfer; easements, servitudes, and land use; and public rights and takings.

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At the 2024 Annual Meeting, the membership voted to approve Tentative Draft No. 5, which includes material from Volumes 4, 5, and 7 on Leases, Title and Transfers of Ownership, Deeds of Conveyance, Recording, and Public Local Land-Use Recognition: Volume 4, Divided and Shared Ownership: Division Three, Leases, Chapter 1, Basic Provisions (§§ 1.1 to 1.3), Chapter 2, Forms of Leases (§§ 2.1 to 2.6), Chapter 4, Illegal Leases (§§ 4.1 to 4.4), Chapter 5, Lessee's Right to Possession (Intro. Note; §§ 5.1 to 5.7), Chapter 6, Interference with Lessee's Right to Use: Residential Tenancies (Intro. Note; §§ 6.1 to 6.4), Chapter 7, Interference with Permissible Use (Intro. Note; §§ 7.1 and 7.2), Chapter 8, Procedures for Invoking Lessee's Remedies (Intro. Note; §§ 8.1 to 8.4); Volume 5, Title and Transfers of Ownership (Intro. Note): Division One, Title, Chapter 1, Foundations (§§ 1.1 to 1.5), Division Three, Chapter 1, Effects and Types of Deeds (Intro. Note; §§1.1 to 1.4), Chapter 2, Delivery and Acceptance (§§ 2.1 to 2.3), Chapter 3, The Doctrine of Merger by Deed (Intro. Note; §§ 3.1 and 3.2), Chapter 4, Present Warranties of Title (Intro. Note; §§ 4.1 to 4.4), Chapter 5, Future Warranties of Title (Intro. Note; §§ 5.1 to 5.4), Chapter 6, Remedies for Breaches of Warranties of Title (Intro. Note; §§ 6.1 to 6.4), Chapter 7, Deed Requirements (Intro. Note; §§ 7.1 to 7.5): Division Four, Recording, Chapter 2, Types of Recording (Intro. Note; §§ 2.1 to 2.3), Chapter 3, Types of Notice (§§ 3.1 and 3.2), Chapter 4, Recording Errors Affecting Constructive Notice (§§ 4.1 to 4.5), and Chapter 5, Forgeries, Fraus, ad Incapacities Affecting Validity of Recording Title (Intro. Note; §§ 5.1 to 5.10); Volume 7, Public Local Land-Use Regulation: Division One, Zoning, Chapter 6, Flexibility Tools (Intro. Note; §§ 6.1 to 6.7) and Chapter 7, Nonconformities (Intro. Note; §§ 7.1 to 7.5).

At the 2023 Annual Meeting, the membership voted to approve Tentative Draft No. 4 through Volume 7, Division 1, Chapter 5. There was insufficient time to discuss Chapters 6 and 7 of Volume 7, Division I. A motion to amend §1.2A of Volume 2, Division I, Chapter 1 was withdrawn after Reporters presented edits to §1.2A in response to the motion.

At the 2022 Annual Meeting, the membership voted to approve Tentative Draft No. 3, which includes material from Volumes 2, 3, 4, and 7 on Nuisance, Bailments, The Estate System and Related Matters, and Zoning, Planning, and Subdivision: Volume 2, Interferences with, and Limits on, Ownership and Possession: Division One, Property Torts, Chapter 2, Private Nuisance; Prima Facie Case, Topic 1, Private Nuisance, Generally (§§ 2.1 to 2.4); Volume 3, Powers and Duties Associated with Ownership: Division Three, Bailments (§§ 1 to 16); Volume 4, Divided and Shared Ownership: Division One, The Estate System, Chapter 1, Forms of Ownership (§§ 1.1 to 1.3), Chapter 2, Present Interests: Classification (§§ 2.1 to 2.6), Chapter 3, Future Interests: Classification (§§ 3.1 to 3.5), Chapter 4, Maintaining and Simplifying the Estate System (§§ 4.1 to 4.6), and Chapter 5, Waste (§§ 5.1 to 5.2); Volume 7, Land Use: Division One, Zoning, Chapter 1, The Roots of Zoning (§§ 1.1 to 1.4), Chapter 2, Fundamental Concepts (§§ 2.1 to 2.6), Chapter 3, Regulating Land Use, Structures, and Lots (§§ 3.1 to 3.4); Division Two, Planning (§§ 1 to 3); and Division Three, Subdivision (§§ 1 to 5).

At the 2021 Annual Meeting, the membership voted to approve Tentative Draft No. 2, which contains material from Volumes 1, 2, and 3 on Possession, Trespass to Land, and Bailments: Volume 1, The Basics of Property: Division Two, Possession, Chapter 1, Possession (§§ 1.1, 1.8); Volume 2, Interferences with, and Limits on, Ownership and Possession: Division One, Property Torts, Chapter 1, Trespass to Land, Topic 1, Trespass to Land (§§ 1.1, 1.3-1.5); and Volume 3, Powers and Duties Associated with Ownership: Division Three, Bailments (§§ 1, 2).

All draft approvals are subject to the discussion at the meeting and usual editorial prerogative.

For an in-depth description of this project, please visit the Property page of The ALI Adviser.

* Preliminary Drafts and Council Drafts are available only to participants and the Council. Discussion Drafts and Tentative Drafts are available to the public after the Annual Meeting.

** Once it is approved by the Membership at an Annual Meeting, a Tentative Draft or Proposed Final Draft represents the most current statement of The American Law Institute's position on the subject and may be cited in opinions or briefs until the official text is published.

*** Chapter numbers are those used in the most recent draft or in the latest projected overall table of contents and may not correspond to the chapter numbers used in earlier drafts. 

Henry E. Smith
Harvard Law School, Cambridge, MA
Molly E. Brady
Harvard Law School, Cambridge, MA
Sara C. Bronin
Cornell Law School, Ithaca, NY
Richard R. W. Brooks
New York University School of Law, New York, NY
Yun-Chien Chang
Cornell Law School, Ithaca, NY
R. Wilson Freyermuth
University of Missouri School of Law, Columbia, MO
John C.P. Goldberg
Harvard Law School, Cambridge, MA
Brian A. Lee
Brooklyn Law School, Brooklyn, NY
Thomas W. Merrill
Columbia Law School, New York, NY
Christopher M. Newman
George Mason University Antonin Scalia Law School, Arlington, VA
Susan F. French
University of California, Los Angeles School of Law, Marina del Rey, CA
Lawrence W. Waggoner
University of Michigan Law School, Ann Arbor, MI
Vicki Lynn Been
New York University School of Law, New York, NY
Michael M. Berger
Manatt, Phelps & Phillips, LLP, Los Angeles, CA
Andre G. Bouchard
Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP, Wilmington, DE
Michael K. Brown
Brown Gee & Wenger LLP, Walnut Creek, CA
José A. Cabranes
U.S. Court of Appeals, Second Circuit, New Haven, CT
David L. Callies
University of Hawaii at Manoa, William S. Richardson School of Law, Honolulu, HI
John G. Cameron
Dickinson Wright PLLC, Grand Rapids, MI
Robert L. Carter
Supreme Court of Illinois (Retired), Rock Island, IL
Eric R. Claeys
George Mason University Antonin Scalia Law School, Arlington, VA
Geoffrey W. Crawford
U.S. District Court, District of Vermont, Burlington, VT
Judith C. Cutler
Land Court Department of the Trial Court (Retired), Tiverton, RI
Robert C. Ellickson
Yale Law School, New Haven, CT
Thomas P. Gallanis
George Mason University Antonin Scalia Law School, Arlington, VA
Todd R. Geremia
Jones Day, New York, NY
Steven G. Horowitz
Cleary Gottlieb, New York, NY
Keith N. Hylton
Boston University School of Law, Boston, MA
David James Kappos
Cravath, Swaine & Moore LLP, New York, NY
Daniel B. Kelly
University of St. Thomas School of Law, Minneapolis, MN
Donald J. Kochan
George Mason University Antonin Scalia Law School, Arlington, VA
Nicole L. Kuenzi
California State Water Resources Control Board, Sacramento, CA
Lance Liebman
Columbia Law School, New York, NY
John A. Lovett
Loyola University New Orleans College of Law, New Orleans, LA
Julia D. Mahoney
University of Virginia School of Law, Charlottesville, VA
Tanya D. Marsh
Wake Forest University School of Law, Winston-Salem, NC
John F. K. Oberdiek
Rutgers Law School, Camden, NJ
Eduardo Peñalver
Seattle University, Seattle, WA
Daniel B. Rodriguez
Northwestern University Pritzker School of Law, Chicago, IL
Carol Marguerite Rose
Yale Law School (Retired), New Haven, CT
Zachary C. Schauf
Jenner & Block LLP, Washington, DC
Michael A. Scodro
Mayer Brown LLP, Chicago, IL
Lindsay S. See
Office of the West Virginia Attorney General, Charleston, WV
Randall T. Shepard
Indiana University, Robert H. McKinney School of Law, Indianapolis, IN
Kathleen Smalley
New York, NY
Craig Sonnenschein
Baker & Hostetler LLP, Chicago, IL
Stephen Spitz
Charleston, SC
Laura Denvir Stith
Supreme Court of Missouri, Kansas City, MO
Molly S. Van Houweling
University of California, Berkeley School of Law, Berkeley, CA
Joseph T. Waldo
Waldo & Lyle, PC, Norfolk, VA
S. Albert Wang
Halpern May Ybarra Gelberg LLP, Los Angeles, CA
Steven O. Weise
Proskauer Rose LLP, Los Angeles, CA
Daryl L. Wiesen
Goodwin Procter LLP, Boston, MA
Katrina M. Wyman
New York University School of Law, New York, NY
Benjamin C. Zipursky
Fordham University School of Law, New York, NY
Bram Akkermans
Maastricht University
Lisa Austin
University of Toronto
Michael Bridge
The London School of Economics and Political Science, London, United Kingdom
Christopher Essert
University of Toronto
Christian Heinze
Heidelberg University
Larissa Katz
University of Toronto Faculty of Law
Björn Laukemann
Max Planck Institute Luxembourg
Ben McFarlane
University College London Law
Donal Nolan
University of Oxford, Worcester College, Oxford, England
James Penner
National University of Singapore
Peter Turner
University of Melbourne Law School
Sarah Worthington
University of Cambridge Faculty of Law
Sjef van Erp
University of Amsterdam, Noord-Brabant, Netherlands
Lee Alston
Indiana University Bloomington
Benito Arrunada
Universitat Pompeu Fabra Barcelona
William A. Fischel
Dartmouth College
Edward Glaeser
Harvard University
Stephen Haber
Stanford University
Zorina Khan
Bowdoin College
Gary Libecap
Bren School of Environmental Science & Management
Kristen David Adams
Stetson University College of Law, Gulfport, FL
Jonathan H. Adler
Case Western Reserve University School of Law, Cleveland, OH
Jerry L. Anderson
Drake University Law School, Des Moines, IA
José F. Anderson
University of Baltimore School of Law, Baltimore, MD
Christopher Edward Appel
Shook, Hardy & Bacon LLP, Washington, DC
William G. Arnot
Law Offices of William G. Arnot, Houston, TX
Ronald G. Aronovsky
Southwestern Law School, Los Angeles, CA
Lynn A. Baker
University of Texas School of Law, Austin, TX
Dabney Dorsett Bassel
Texas Second Court of Appeals, Fort Worth, TX
Jeffrey A. Beaver
Miller Nash LLP, Seattle, WA
Ira Mark Bloom
Albany Law School, Albany, NY
Joseph B. Bluemel
Third Judicial District Court, Kemmerer, WY
Daniel B. Bogart
Chapman University, Dale E. Fowler School of Law, Orange, CA
Willard L. Boyd
Nyemaster Goode, PC, Des Moines, IA
Charles H. Brower II
Wayne State University Law School, Detroit, MI
Thomas Buiteweg
Hudson Cook, LLP, Ann Arbor, MI
Ann M. Burkhart
University of Minnesota Law School, Minneapolis, MN
K. King Burnett
Webb Burnett Cornbrooks (Retired), Stow, MA
Timothy W. Burns
Burns Bair LLP, Madison, WI
John P. Burton
Rodey Law Firm, Santa Fe, NM
Lynda L. Butler
William & Mary Law School, Williamsburg, VA
Alejandro E. Camacho
University of California, Irvine School of Law, Irvine, CA
W. Jonathan Cardi
Wake Forest University School of Law, Winston-Salem, NC
Ronald Chester
New England Law School of Law, Boston, MA
Cynthia K. Ching
Department of Corporation Counsel, City and County of Honolulu, Honolulu, HI
Stephen Yee Chow
Stephen Y. Chow, PC, Boston, MA
Penelope L. Christophorou
Morgan Lewis Bockius LLP, New York, NY
Neil B. Cohen
Brooklyn Law School, Brooklyn, NY
Kevin L. Cole
University of San Diego School of Law, San Diego, CA
Jorge L. Contreras
University of Utah, S.J. Quinney College of Law, Salt Lake City, UT
Rose Cuison-Villazor
Rugers Law School, Newark, NJ
Karen Czapanskiy
University of Maryland, Francis King Carey School of Law, Baltimore, MD
Rueben C. Cásarez
Wells Fargo & Co. (Retired), Evergreen, CO
Christopher Scott D'Angelo
Montgomery, McCracken, Walker & Rhoads, LLP, Philadelphia, PA
Camille Davidson
Mitchell Hamline School of Law, Saint Paul, MN
Anthony M. DiLeo
Anthony M. DiLeo, APC, New Orleans, LA
Nikola R. Djuric
Bessemer Trust, Atlanta, GA
Just. James J. Edelman
High Court of Australia, Canberra, Australia
David M. English
University of Missouri School of Law, Columbia, MO
Dave Fagundes
Emory University School of Law, Atlanta, GA
Manuel Farach
Mrachek, Fitzgerald, Rose, Konopka,Thomas & Weiss, P.A., West Palm Beach, FL
Richard G. Feder
Philadelphia, PA
James A. Feldman
James A. Feldman, Attorney at Law, Washington, DC
Kimberly Kessler Ferzan
University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School, Philadelphia, PA
Arthur Norman Field
Field Consulting Services LLC, New York, NY
Theodore J. Folkman
Rubin & Rudman LLP, Boston, MA
Julia P. Forrester Rogers
Southern Methodist University, Dedman School of Law, Dallas, TX
Gregory R. Fox
Ballard Spahr LLP, Seattle, WA
Kenneth S. Gallant
University of Arkansas at Little Rock, William H. Bowen School of Law (Retired), Sequim, WA
Marvin Garfinkel
Gladwyne, PA
Mark P. Gergen
University of California, Berkeley School of Law, Berkeley, CA
Joseph M. Getty
Supreme Court of Maryland, Annapolis, MD
Donald G. Gifford
University of Maryland, Francis King Carey School of Law, Baltimore, MD
Philip S. Goldberg
Shook, Hardy & Bacon LLP, Washington, DC
Michael S. Goodrich
Decker Jones, P.C., Fort Worth, TX
Michael D. Green
Washington University School of Law, Saint Louis, MO
Charles E. Griffin
Butler Snow LLP, Ridgeland, MS
Anton G. Hajjar
Chevy Chase, MD
Amy Hardberger
Texas Tech University School of Law, Lubbock, TX
W. Scott Hastings
Troutman Pepper Locke LLP, Dallas, TX
Paul T. Hayden
Loyola Law School, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA
Gregory Alan Hicks
University of Washington School of Law, Seattle, WA
Roger F. Holmes
Biss & Holmes, Anchorage, AK
Kathleen J. Hopkins
Real Property Law Group PLLC (Retired), Seattle, WA
Lolita Buckner Inniss
University of Colorado Law School, Boulder, CO
John E. Iole
Jones Day (Retired), Pittsburgh, PA
Robert A. James
Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP, San Francisco, CA
Leslie Carolyn Kendrick
University of Virginia School of Law, Charlottesville, VA
Jeff Kichaven
Jeff Kichaven Commercial Mediation, Los Angeles, CA
Nancy S. Kim
Chicago-Kent College of Law, Chicago, IL
Daniel S. Kleinberger
Mitchell Hamline School of Law (Retired), Mendota Heights, MN
Gerald Korngold
New York Law School, New York, NY
Kathryn Kovacs
Rutgers Law School, Camden, NJ
William K. Kroger
Baker Botts L.L.P., Houston, TX
Andrew Kull
University of Texas School of Law, Austin, TX
Peter B Kutner
University of Oklahoma College of Law, Norman, OK
Douglas Laycock
University of Virginia School of Law (Retired), Charlottesville, VA
Herbert I. Lazerow
University of San Diego School of Law, San Diego, CA
Erika F. Lietzan
University of Missouri School of Law, Columbia, MO
Carl H. Lisman
Lisman Leckerling, P.C. (Retired), Burlington, VT
Houston Putnam Lowry
Ford & Paulekas, LLP, Hartford, CT
Orlando Lucero
Fidelity National Financial Family Companies, Albuquerque, NM
Michael J. Madison
University of Pittsburgh School of Law, Pittsburgh, PA
Edward M. Mansfield
Supreme Court of Iowa, Des Moines, IA
C. Scott Maravilla
U.S. Federal Aviation Administration, Washington, DC
Lorelie S. Masters
Hunton Andrews Kurth LLP, Washington, DC
Robert L. McCurley
Alabama Law Institute, Tuscaloosa, AL
James C. McKay
Office of the Attorney General for the District of Columbia, Washington, DC
Nancy A. McLaughlin
University of Utah, S.J. Quinney College of Law, Salt Lake City, UT
Richard J. McNeil
Crowell & Moring LLP, Irvine, CA
Thomas J. McSweeney
William & Mary Law School, Williamsburg, VA
Joseph Scott Miller
University of Georgia School of Law, Athens, GA
Timothy M. Mulvaney
Texas A&M University School of Law, Fort Worth, TX
Kevin Reid Murray
Holland & Hart LLP, Salt Lake City, UT
Alice M. Noble-Allgire
Southern Illinois University School of Law (Retired), Carterville, IL
Christopher K. Odinet
Texas A&M University School of Law, Fort Worth, TX
Uma Outka
University of Kansas School of Law, Lawrence, KS
Robert H. Pemberton
Texas Third Court of Appeals, Austin, TX
Kristina Pickering
Supreme Court of Nevada, Las Vegas, NV
Thomas E. Plank
University of Tennessee College of Law, Knoxville, TN
Jeffrey M. Pollock
Pollock Law, LLC, Furlong, PA
Ellen S. Pryor
UNT Dallas College of Law, Dallas, TX
Hugh Massey Ray
Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP, Houston, TX
Henry R. Reeve
Denver District Attorney's Office (Retired), Denver, CO
David Jerome Reiss
Cornell Law School, New York, NY
Daniel I.S.J. Rey-Bear
Rey-Bear McLaughlin LLP, Spokane, WA
Sally Brown Richardson
Tulane University Law School, New Orleans, LA
Dan Robbins
Motion Picture Association, Inc., Calabasas, CA
Shannon M. Roesler
University of Iowa College of Law, Iowa City, IA
Margaret Ann Rolando
Shutts & Bowen LLP, Miami, FL
Jonathan Rosenbloom
Albany Law School, Albany, NY
Jeremy Ledger Ross
Amazon.com Inc., Seattle, WA
Keith A. Rowley
University of Nevada, Las Vegas, William S. Boyd School of Law, Las Vegas, NV
Patricia E. Salkin
Touro University Jacob D. Fuchsberg Law Center, New York, NY
Ronald Joseph Scalise
Tulane University School of Law, New Orleans, LA
William H. Schorling
Buchanan Ingersoll & Rooney PC, Dillon, CO
Victor E. Schwartz
Shook, Hardy & Bacon LLP, Washington, DC
Kenneth W. Simons
University of California, Irvine School of Law, Irvine, CA
Wenona T. Singel
Michigan State University College of Law, East Lansing, MI
Robert H. Sitkoff
Harvard Law School, Cambridge, MA
David L. Sloss
Santa Clara University School of Law, Santa Clara, CA
Douglas G. Smith
Alpheus LLC, Chicago, IL
Lionel D. Smith
University of Oxford Faculty of Law, Oxford, England
John M. Steadman
District of Columbia Court of Appeals, Washington, DC
Paul B. Stephan
University of Virginia School of Law, Charlottesville, VA
Stewart E. Sterk
Yeshiva University, Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law, New York, NY
James Y. Stern
William & Mary Law School, Williamsburg, VA
H. Mark Stichel
RKW Law Group, Baltimore, MD
Shale D. Stiller
DLA Piper US LLP (Retired), Baltimore, MD
Elizabeth S. Stong
U.S. Bankruptcy Court, Eastern District of New York, Brooklyn, NY
Lior Jacob Strahilevitz
University of Chicago Law School, Chicago, IL
Guy Miller Struve
Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP (Retired), New York, NY
John D. Taurman
Vinson & Elkins LLP (Retired), Washington, DC
Robert H. Thomas
Pacific Legal Foundation, Sacramento, CA
Daniel Mack Traynor
U.S. District Court, District of North Dakota, Bismarck, ND
Thomas A. Tupitza
Knox McLaughlin Gornall & Sennett, P.C., Erie, PA
Chang Wang
Kingsfield Law Office, Bloomington, MN
Linda A. Wasserman
Honigman LLP, Bloomfield Hills, MI
Alan M. White
City University of New York School of Law, Long Island City, NY
James A. Williams
Hughes Vanderburg Williams Booth PLLC, Austin, TX
Kelli Alces Williams
Florida State University College of Law, Tallahassee, FL
Charles W. Wirken
Gust Rosenfeld, PLC, Phoenix, AZ
Richard W. Wright
IIT Chicago-Kent College of Law, Evanston, IL
Sjef van Erp
University of Amsterdam, Noord-Brabant, Netherlands

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